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Nutt attracting several potential walk-ons
Posted Friday, May 10, at 12:49 PM
As SEMO men's basketball coach Dickey Nutt continues to recruit in search of scholarship players to bolster his roster, he also continues to add potential players as invited walk-ons. Jamaal Calvin, a senior guard at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., is the latest player that has been invited to walk on for next season. He recently tweeted that he would be joining the Redhawks' program...

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QB should be an interesting position to watch at SEMO
Posted Saturday, April 27, at 6:44 PM

The SEMO football team, which concluded spring practice with Saturday's spring game, has plenty of holes to fill in the 2013 season after losing 23 seniors, many of whom ranked among the squad's top players. Quarterback is one position that provides plenty of experience and depth -- and it's a position that will be interesting to follow during fall practice that begins in early August...

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SEMO basketball recruiting news
Posted Thursday, April 11, at 1:41 PM

It looks like the SEMO men's basketball team has lost one high school shooting guard while picking up another one. SEMO signee Martavian Payne recently signed a letter of intent with John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill. It's a virtual certainty that Payne will not play for the Redhawks next season, which really comes as no great surprise considering the academic issues that placed Payne's Division I eligibility in serious doubt all along...

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Otto Porter a deserving superstar
Posted Sunday, March 17, at 10:33 PM

Georgetown sophomore Otto Porter winning the Big East player of the year award moved me to dig up one of my columns from early during Porter's senior season at Scott County Central High School. I can't say that I predicted Porter, projected as a likely top-10 -- or even top-five -- NBA draft pick would be this good this soon, but I also can't say that his success has totally surprised me...

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SEMO passes on postseason play; Nutt contract extended
Posted Thursday, March 14, at 5:38 PM

The SEMO men's basketball team had an opportunity to continue its season. SEMO officials said that the College Basketball Invitational, one of the two lower-level postseason tournaments that started a few years ago, extended an invitation Thursday to participate in the event that begins early next week...

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SEMO basketball season has chance of continuing
Posted Friday, March 8, at 2:33 PM

SEMO men's basketball coach Dickey Nutt told me after Thursday's loss to Eastern Kentucky in the quarterfinals of the OVC tournament that the Redhawks' season might not yet be over. Nutt said there is a chance the Redhawks might be invited to one of the two lower-level postseason tournaments that started a few years ago, the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) and the Collegeinsider.com Tournament (CIT)...

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Redhawks on a roll entering OVC tournament
Posted Sunday, March 3, at 5:21 PM

It hasn't always been smooth sailing for the SEMO men's basketball team this year. But the Redhawks are playing by far their best ball of the season entering the OVC tournament. The Redhawks are in the postseason event for the third consecutive year for just the second time in program history after previously not making the field since the 2006-07 campaign...

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Challenging season awaits SEMO baseball
Posted Sunday, February 10, at 9:27 PM

It's going to be a challenging season for the SEMO baseball team, which has a new coach and faces plenty of question marks as it opens the campaign Friday at New Orleans. SEMO lost most of its top talent from last year's squad that barely squeezed into the OVC tournament, keeping alive its OVC-record streak of 18 straight conference tournament appearances. Additionally, SEMO's anticipated top two pitchers are out of the season after having Tommy John surgery...

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EKU dunk against SEMO makes ESPN
Posted Sunday, February 3, at 4:37 PM

Eastern Kentucky not only beat SEMO in men's basketball Saturday, the Colonels also turned in one of the best dunks ever at the Show Me Center. Marcus Lewis, a 6-foot-4 junior guard, swooped in from outside the free-throw line, leaped over SEMO 6-8 sophomore forward Nino Johnson and threw down a one-handed alley-oop jam off an inbound pass from underneath the basket. Lewis appeared to be a couple of feet above the rim...

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Porter out for rest of season
Posted Monday, January 21, at 12:59 PM

Michael Porter's injury-plagued college basketball career has hit yet another in a long line of roadblocks. SEMO coach Dickey Nutt said Monday the junior forward will miss the rest of the season after re-fracturing the foot he originally broke prior to the season...

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SEMO women having impressive turnaround
Posted Friday, January 11, at 11:01 AM

I'm not about to say the SEMO women's basketball team is ready to challenge for the OVC championship. That might be a stretch considering how much the Redhawks have struggled the past three seasons. But you've got to be impressed by the way the Redhawks are performing under second-year coach Ty Margenthaler. He and his staff have breathed plenty of life into a floundering program...

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SEMO basketball reaches significant milestone
Posted Saturday, December 22, at 10:00 PM

The SEMO men's basketball team reached a significant milestone with Saturday's 66-65 win at Missouri-Kansas City. The Redhawks, who are 8-6, clinched their first nonconference winning record since the 2003-04 season and SEMO also has its most nonconference victories since the 2000-01 squad went 10-4 in nonleague play...

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Former SEMO baseball star signs with Cardinals
Posted Sunday, December 9, at 8:59 PM

Former SEMO baseball standout Justin Christian has signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. The 32-year-old outfielder played in the major leagues with the San Francisco Giants parts of the past two seasons, although he was not on their 2012 playoff roster when they won the World Series. He also appeared in the majors with the New York Yankees in 2008...

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Jacksonville State fires Crowe
Posted Sunday, December 2, at 4:11 PM

The OVC will have at least one new football coach next year after Friday's surprising news that Jacksonville State fired Jack Crowe. Crowe's 13-year run in charge of JSU's program ended with two years left on his $160,000-a-year contract and an 87-57 record, including 10 straight winning seasons and three OVC championships (2003, 2004, 2011)...

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Peiffer, Lathrop earn top OVC honors
Posted Tuesday, November 20, at 3:41 PM

SEMO football finished with another losing record but the Redhawks were winners in the OVC's postseason awards announced Tuesday. Senior linebacker Blake Peiffer from Jackson was named OVC defensive player of the year and redshirt freshman quarterback Scott Lathrop was named OVC newcomer of the year...

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SEMO quarterback on FCS top freshman list
Posted Friday, November 9, at 10:19 AM

SEMO redshirt freshman quarterback Scott Lathrop has been added to the Jerry Rice Award Watch List. The Rice Award, in its second year, honors the national freshman of the year in the Football Championship Subdivision. It is named for legendary wide receiver Jerry Rice, who was a two-time first-team All-American in the FCS (then Division I-AA) at Mississippi Valley State...

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SEMO football team no match for EKU
Posted Saturday, November 3, at 10:34 PM

The SEMO football team had its first real OVC dud game of the season Saturday as the Redhawks were blasted by Eastern Kentucky 31-7 in their final home contest. Not much went right for the Redhawks, who trailed 31-0 before avoiding the shutout by scoring a touchdown in the closing minutes...

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SEMO football team gets much-needed win
Posted Sunday, October 28, at 12:56 PM

The SEMO football team picked up a much-needed victory Saturday, beating winless Austin Peay 48-27 as the Redhawks snapped a 10-game road losing streak dating back to 2010. But it won't be easy for the Redhawks, who ended an overall three-game losing streak, to get any more victories in their remaining three contests as they attempt to better last year's three-win season...

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SEMO football can't get over hump
Posted Sunday, October 21, at 1:42 PM

SEMO isn't a bad football team, even though the Redhawks 2-5 overall record and 1-3 OVC mark might suggest otherwise. What the 2012 Redhawks are is a decent squad that simply can't get over the proverbial hump. The Redhawks have lost three straight games, all in OVC play, most recently Saturday's 27-17 homecoming defeat to Tennessee-Martin...

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SEMO volleyball having big season
Posted Sunday, October 14, at 1:33 PM

SEMO volleyball doesn't attract nearly the attention of the university's high-profile sports like football and basketball but what the Redhawks are doing so far this year is worthy of plenty of notice. The Redhawks are in the middle of a sensational season as their resurgence continues under second-year coach Julie Folliard...

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