Loy said that Colonel Reb Too, a costumed figure that looks very much like the original colonel, had been attending sporting events with his own ticket, but has been banned starting at a Nov. 7 ...

JACKSON, Mississippi -- Step aside Colonel Reb. The next University of Mississippi mascot could well be a fierce black bear, a toothy land shark or a character in a full-body muscle-suit.

We have a petition with 3,500 signatures of students who still want Colonel Reb as their mascot and that's the way it should be," said Brian Ferguson, a 2007 graduate who is also a member of the ...

It’s been seven years since Ole Miss phased out Colonel Reb, the mascot some viewed as racially divisive and the school would like to put out of people’s consciousness. Now the student body would like ...

The Colonel Reb Foundation, a group formed in 2003 when the mascot was dropped, had bought advertisements in the student newspaper in hopes of winning a "no" vote on the proposal.

Calvin Wright broke the color barrier when he served as Colonel Reb for Vestavia Hills High School. (Submitted photos) ( ) By Calvin Wright,a 2012 Vestavia Hills High School graduate ...

Bahr/Getty/Getty Images Eli Manning’s alma mater, Ole Miss, announced that it was replacing its Colonel Reb mascot with a black bear on Thursday. By Bobby Melok UPDATED: April 9, 2018 at 7:42 p.m.

Alum Bob Dunlap, 80, who's in the tire business, said he has donated about $1 million to Ole Miss athletics over the years, but he'll probably stop if Colonel Reb is removed from the campus entirely.

The Rebels came out on top 43-37, and Franz held up his end of the bet by getting a Colonel Red tattoo on, well, you’ll see. Ole Miss beat Bama 43-37 Saturday, making @AlexjFranz lose our bet.

Colonel Reb — a caricature of a white antebellum Southern plantation owner that served as the school's mascot for 24 years — was technically banned by the school's administration in 2003. The school ...

University of Mississippi students voted Tuesday for the school to pursue a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb, the goateed Southern gent banished from the sidelines nearly seven years ago.

Colonel Reb's first appearance on the sidelines was in the 1970s. That's right after the period during which all of the SEC"s football teams finally became integrated, including Ole Miss. Colonel Reb ...