Ole Miss will replace its Rebel the Bear mascot for athletic events with a Landshark starting in 2018. The term Landshark originated in 2008 and has been used by several of the school's teams.

No matter how you feel about the removal of our formal mascot in 2003, we hope you will help us develop and embrace a new mascot to lead today's Ole Miss Rebels. Voting closes at 5:00 p.m. CT on ...

Ole Miss Mascot a New Confederate Casualty. By Allen G. Breed . June 29, 2003 12 AM PT . ... Ole Miss became the Rebels because its old nickname, “The Flood,” had bad connotations.

The as-yet named Landshark will replace Rebel the Bear, who was selected as the Ole Miss mascot in 2010. In 2003, the university retired Colonel Reb from the field in an effort to move away from ...

What do you replace a mascot that resembles a Confederate plantation owner with? A bear in a suit, of course. The University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss) announced Thursday that the Rebel Black… ...

The black bear is connected to Ole Miss through Faulkner, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who penned “The Bear.” In it, Old Ben stands as a symbol of pride, strength and toughness.

Seven years after the University of Mississippi abandoned the use of Colonel Reb as its mascot, the university is considering restoring some (other) mascot, and once again is debating questions of ...

The students of Ole Miss have a petition with over 3,500 signatures saying that they want to keep their same old mascot Colonel Reb, who many Mississippi faithful still love.

Seven years after asking fans to embrace a new mascot, Ole Miss wants spectators to ... was retired from the field in 2003 amid the university’s efforts to distance the campus from Old South ...

OXFORD, Miss. – It took seven years, but the University of Mississippi has a substitute for a beloved and reviled mascot who brought the Confederacy to mind. The new guy is still a rebel, only ...

Ole Miss revealed the new Landshark mascot, Tony, at "Meet the Rebels Day" on Saturday. Author: Maddie Lee (Mississippi Clarion Ledger) Published: 1:23 PM EDT August 13, 2018 ...

Ole Miss revealed the new Landshark mascot, Tony, at "Meet the Rebels Day" on Saturday. Author: Maddie Lee (Mississippi Clarion Ledger) Published: 10:23 AM PDT August 13, 2018 ...