End Of The Year Awards

Now that I've had time to get over the Massacre at Tempe, it's time to celebrate the end of the Ole Miss Athletics calendar with the End of the Year Awards. While the '80s were the all time low for Ole Miss football it was the Golden Age of television. Before the Game Shows and Reality, and 190 channels of interior design ruined it. Since the football team seems to have reversed to the early '80s, this years awards are classic shows of the '80s inspired.


The Magnum Award goes to the best Male Athlete.

This years winner is Ole Miss Baseball pitcher Lance Lynn. It was easy at first to write in Patrick Willis but if your team looses nearly every game what's the point? Isn't the point of sports at some point to win games? So the award goes to the Ole Miss pitcher who set the school record for strikeouts with 146 (2nd in SEC after the #1 pick in the draft) and lead the team with 8 wins (7th in SEC), a 2.85 ERA (4th in the SEC), and a .209 Average against (3rd in SEC). Also the baseball team had, while inconsistent, a pretty solid year and hosted a regional for the third straight year. Barring injury Lynn is a first round draft pick next year. Expect big things for the 2007 baseball team.





The Dukes of Hazzard Daisy Duke award goes to the Lady Rebel Athlete of the Year.

This year the award goes to Rebel softball player Amber Tramp. Besides from having a great name, Amber batted .265 with 1 home run and 20 RBIs for the season for the surprisingly competitive Lady Rebs who made the SEC tournament.










The Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci award to honor his years of faithful guidance goes to the Rebels best coach.


The award goes Men's Basketball Coach Andy Kennedy. Kennedy guided the Rebels to their first winning season in four years on the way to the NIT tournament. Most impressively he did this with predominately Barnes recruited players who did not fit his system. However Kennedy adapted and won the most possible games with what he had and lead to a solid and surprisingly fun season. Alternatively Kennedy could have won the MacGyver award for getting the most out of the what appeared at first glance to be the least.



The A-Team award goes to the Best team that achieved the most success.

The award obviously goes to the Lady Rebel women's basketball team that earned their way to the NCAA tournament's Elite Eight and a top ten final ranking. Carol Ross and Armintie Price had the Lady Reb's in every game and pulled off some great upsets and had a few more Rebel fans turning into women's basketball.