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 ...

Rebel the Bear's retirement is effective immediately, and the mascot will not be present at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium when Ole Miss plays Auburn on Saturday, athletic director Ross Bjork said.. The ...

Meet the Ole Miss Rebels’ new mascot, a Landshark named Tony. The Rebels are still the Rebels, though. By Jason Kirk Updated Sep 1, 2018, 9:40am EDT Share this story. Share this ...

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 ...

Next was mascot "Colonel Reb," the goateed Southern planter who cheered on the Rebels from the sidelines since 1979. Ole Miss' new mascot -- the Rebel Black Bear -- in his various attires.

It's official: The Rebel Black Bear is Ole Miss' new on-field mascot, the school announced today. The bear was the first choice of 62 percent of university stakeholders-- faculty, students, alumni ...

The Ole Miss Rebels and Miami Hurricanes have only met three times on the gridiron, and while the Rebels hold a 2-1 advantage in the series, they gained a social media win over Miami last weekend.

Ole Miss has largely stripped away all connotations to the Confederacy except its most prominent one: the Rebels nickname. It's time to drop it.