On Sunday, the New York Times reported on the "Colonel Reb" mascot controversy at the University of Mississippi, a.k.a. "Ole Miss." Colonel Reb — a caricature of a white antebellum Southern plantation ...

Ole Miss is the only Southeastern Conference school without an official mascot. Colonel Reb, the representation of a 19th century Southern gentleman that has been a symbol of Ole Miss for the better ...

Ole Miss will remain the Rebels, but Colonel Reb won't be back on the field. The university has taken other steps in recent years to throw off what many perceive as lingering reminders of a ...

Ole Miss will remain the Rebels, but Colonel Reb won't be back on the field. The university has taken other steps in recent years to throw off what many perceive as lingering reminders of a ...

Some of his diehard fans had been campaigning against the move. Ole Miss senior Jeffery Chase says he liked Colonel Reb, but he understands if some people were uncomfortable with him representing ...

It has been more than a decade since Ole Miss began stripping away its images of the Old South. Confederate battle flags were first to go. Next was mascot “Colonel Reb,” the goateed Southern ...

Colonel Reb, the university's longtime Southern gentleman character ... The vote is set for Feb. 23 and will indicate whether Ole Miss students support development of a new mascot or prefer to have ...

“Gentle Ben” Williams became the first black to play football for Ole Miss -- and to be voted “Colonel Rebel” by his peers. Today, blacks make up 13% of the student body of 15,00 ...

According to long time Mississippi sports reporter Rick Cleveland, the breach between the alumni and Pete Boone dates back to the furor a few years back about the Ole Miss mascot "Colonel Reb." ...

Still, Colonel Reb hasn't disappeared altogether from the university. Ole Miss holds the license to the image so it's still on bumper stickers, lapel pins and other merchandise on display at Rebel ...

The team had already been using the Landshark as its primary logo. Ole Miss itself retired the Colonel Reb sideline mascot in 2003, cycling through a handful of mascots from Rebel Black Bear to ...