10-Minute Timeout

If you produce any kind of sports content within the media landscape of Mississippi, you’ve already heard the news of the 2025 Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class. A lot of hometown heroes fill the list- last episode’s guest, Mo Williams, included- but if you’ve paid attention to collegiate baseball in this state literally at all, you most certainly recognize one of those inductees. Scott Berry retired just last year after spending over 20 years on the coaching staff at the University of Southern Miss. USM alums will tell you the baseball program has inarguably been one of the most consistent athletic programs for the Golden Eagles- with teams coached by Berry earning 10 conference championships.Hosted and produced by MPB's Lacey Alexander

For this episode, Lacey sits down with NBA Champion an Alabama Crimson Tide alum (Roll Tide!) Mo Williams, who is currently coaching the men's basketball team at Jackson State University. What was originally planned to be a simple convo about the year ahead and how he hopes his team will succeed instead turned into a very eye-opening conversation about how smaller division 1 athletic programs like JSU have to schedule and recruit. Both of these aspects of program building requires Williams to compete with NCAA Basketball goliaths like Kentucky and Houston.Hosted and produced by MPB's Lacey Alexander.

In honor of the Mississippi Braves recently wrapping up their final season in Pearl, we are revisiting one of the interviewees from our 2-part special on the M-Braves in season 1. Lacey sits down with one of the most prolific sports journalists in the state to discuss all things Baseball.Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today’s sports columnist since 2016. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor’s in journalism, Rick has worked for the Hattiesburg American, Monroe (La.) News Star World, Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. He served four years as executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame before joining Mississippi Today. His work as a syndicated columnist and celebrated sports writer has appeared in numerous magazines, periodicals and newspapers. Rick has been recognized 14 times as Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year and has been inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, the Hattiesburg Hall of Fame, the USM Alumni Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Press Association Hall of Fame.

You can go to just about any sports-savvy source to get an opinion on NIL, which athletes were permitted to legally use for profit in 2021. But we wanted to try something different and talk to someone that collected actual data! Dr. Brennan Berg, professor at the University of Mississippi, (Ole Miss) looked over legal documents and interviewed lawmakers to get the facts on the effects and legislation of NIL. That's putting your PhD to darn good use if you ask us. Hosted and produced by MPB's Lacey Alexander.

We had a lot of fun with this one. For our second episode of the second season, we went a little longer than 10 minutes. But once you see who our guest is, you'll understand why- it's hard to cut off the convo when you're laughing it up with Rob Jay. Currently serving as the Assistant Athletic Director for Broadcasting and Video Services, Jackson residents have most certainly either heard Rob as he calls Jackson State football games or seen Rob during one of his many tenures as an on-camera personality. Here, we chat all things Jackson State- from the soccer team to the band.Hosted and produced by MPB's Lacey Alexander.

We bring you another OVERTIME installment- this time with decorated science journalist Rose Evereth, who recently released their newest project Tested. From NPR's Embedded and the CBC, this podcast explores the 100-year history of sex testing female athletes. We chatted with Rose over Zoom to learn more about the podcast and the research that went into it.