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A member of the Mississippi Valley State football team died in a one-car accident which injured three of his teammates Thursday night. The driver, Kevin Monzon, a 19-year-old sophomore place-kicker from Crystal Springs, Miss., died at the scene in Leflore County, the Southwestern Athletic Conference university said in a release. Marcus Thompson, a junior from Houston, Texas was air-lifted to [...]

Mississippi Valley State University has named Angela Franke as its new women’s volleyball coach. Franke, who spent last season as the head coach at St. Andrews University in North Carolina,replaces Alyse Wells-Kilbert, who resigned earlier this summer. Interim Director of Athletics Donald Sims said Thursday that Franke will be a great addition to the program, which opens its season Aug. 31 at [...]

Unlike Jacksons State of 2010 and Texas Southern of 2011, the top- seeded Mississippi Valley entered the SWAC tournament as favorites and did not disappoint. If you never seen the Delta Devils in the Big Dance before, you will see it in this year’s NCAA tournament. Kevin Burwell scored 19 points to lead the Delta Devils in another tough match up [...]

  Alabama State 66, Texas Southern 59 (OT) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Ivory White scored 21 points and Phillip Crawford added 17 as Alabama State rallied to beat Texas Southern in overtime on Monday night, snapping a three-game losing streak. Texas Southern entered halftime leading 32-18 and pushed that lead to 48-30 behind five straight points from Fred Sturdivant. However, Alabama [...]

Today kicks off an exciting day of hoops in the Southwestern Athletic Conference with five games scheduled. Starting At 4 P.M. the two schools in Alabama will leave their homes and take part in tough road conference games. The Alabama A&M Bulldogs (1-4, 3-11 SWAC) travel to the Clark Center in Baton Rouge to take on the Southern University Jaguars (8-11, 4-2 SWAC).  [...]

Fayetteville- Sarah Watkins scored 15 points to lead the University of Arkansas to a 59-40 win over Mississippi Valley State University Wednesday night. Watkins also went 4 of 5 from the free throw line. Ka’Neshia Smith and Lenise Stallings both scored 8 points to lead the way for Mississippi Valley. Arkansas went 18 for 22 from the free throw line, [...]

Mississippi Valley State University has paid $85,800 so far for school president Donna Oliver to live in a loft apartment in Greenwood.Oliver was hired three years ago and continues to live in the temporary quarters nearly three years later. The official president’s residence on the Itta Bena campus has dry rot, a corroding kitchen floor and other problems that make [...]