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The recently released biopic about the life of Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury is now the highest grossing musical biopic in history. See what student musicians and professors think about Queen’s legacy and the film.
Freshman running back Isaiah Woullard might just be thrust into a starting role on the road against Vanderbilt this weekend, depending on Scottie Phillips’ availability after an injury this past Saturday.
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munity,’” Stand Up, Mississippi outreach coordinator Angela Mallette said. “It’s a personal conviction for all of us.” Opioid addiction has been declared a national crisis as many people across the nation are abusing the drug. Opioids are broken down into three classes which are prescription
One week ahead of the debate between former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy (D) and U.S. Sen. Cindy HydeSmith (R), Ole Miss students will have the chance to hear from four seasoned analysts of Mississippi politics at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. Overby Center Fellow Curtis Wilkie and Overby Center Chairman Charles Overby will host campaign consultant Austin Barbour and former state House Representative Brandon Jones in a discussion of the historic runoff between Espy and Hyde-Smith at 5:30 p.m. this afternoon at the Overby Center Auditorium. “The end of the midterm elections signals the beginning of the presidential race,” Overby said in a press release. “We will talk about the
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Angela Mallette, the outreach coordinator for Stand Up, Mississippi, speaks on the nature of addiction during a forum on the opioid epidemic on Tuesday night.
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Mississippi organizations concerned with the state’s ongoing struggle with opioid abuse came together on campus Tuesday night to highlight the importance of students’ involvement in combating the crisis.
The Mississippi Board of Pharmacy partnered with The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Jackson division of the FBI, the Department of Mental Health and Stand Up, Mississippi to host an opioid forum on campus, where representatives discussed methods to curb rates of opioid abuse. Sid Seal, compliance agent for the Mississippi Board of
Pharmacy, said the town hall meeting was the 33rd forum that has been conducted since the organizations’ partnership began. Started around a year and a half ago, this is the fifth forum to happen on a Mississippi college campus. “The leaders of all these different agencies got together, and we said ‘We have to take this message out the to com-
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The Election Reform Task force will host its second forum tonight in Lamar Hall 131 to discuss potential changes to campus elections. The task force, led by former ASB Attorney General Katherine Sistrunk and ASB Co-Director of Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Engagement Leah Davis, hosted their first forum in October. In a written statement to The Daily Mississippian,
Davis and Sistrunk said at the last forum they realized that many students were “excited and ready to make campus elections more fair and equitable.” “With this next forum, we hope to see more engaged and interested students bringing forth additional ideas for election reform,” Davis and Sistrunk said. “We expect increased attendance at this next forum as many students have expressed interest in attending.” The forums come after The Daily Mississippian reported that candidates running for
personality elections and ASB elections are not required to disclose who donates to their campaign and that most candidates being backed by their Greek organizations. In August, Sistrunk resigned as ASB Attorney General because she realized that Greek-affiliated candidates had an advantage over those who were not members of a Greek organization, and she realized she benefited from that system. “This decision was made on
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Leah Davis and Katherine Sistrunk, co-directors of the Associated Student Body Election Reform Task Force, moderate the first meeting of a newly-created task force to reform the way student elections are conducted on campus last month.
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On Nov. 7, journalist Jemele Hill posted a tweet noting the number of women who voted for Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in this year’s midterm elections. Confused by the number of white women who voted for Cruz, she asked, “Who is the real face of feminism?” Similar sentiments were posted across social media sites by feminists questioning the number of women who voted for Republicans instead of Democrats in hotly contested races. Why have these tweets garnered so much attention? It
is because Democrats expected this midterm election to bring a new blue wave to Congress, and they expected to do this through identity politics. Identity politics is the idea that a person’s experience gives he or she authority when speaking on topics of those experiences. This may seem like a positive and empowering concept, but it’s detrimental to honest political discussion. It suppresses freedom of thought and confines people of a certain race or gender to one party. This ideology implies that whether you agree with the base of the party or not, you must vote for its leaders because they will stand up for you and your experiences. This is not a productive mindset for the American political system. Other women were fed up with tweets like those of Hill that rallied against some ideological stance based merely on their gender. One such woman was actress Patricia Heaton, who tweeted that “women of all kinds” will continue to support a party
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founded on pro-life values rather than support candidates that compromise their beliefs. Women marginalized by their political beliefs are tired of being put into a box based solely on their gender. The only thing that identity politics accomplishes is a huge racial and gender divide. In this past election, women tended to vote for the Democratic candidate over the Republican candidate by 19 percentage points. Among race, the skew is even greater with 90 percent of black Americans, 69 percent of Latinos and 77 percent of Asians voting for the Democratic candidate. While one cannot discredit the thoughts and ideas of those who voted, these numbers do beg the question of why there is such great support from women and minorities for the Democratic Party. Party identification should be based on values, not on skin color or gender. As the Democratic Party continues to focus on identity as the leading cause for support, it loses out on serious discussions of
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the issues plaguing this country. In a “New York Times” opinion piece titled “The End of Identity Liberalism,” Mark Lilla noted that students coming to college are seemingly unaware of the severity of these issues. It blames some of the problem on history courses in high school that focus on trivial topics instead of teaching students the past so that they can make better decisions for the future. Identity politics are not helping create open and honest discussions of real political issues. Instead of focusing on experiences, race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other qualifying factors of a person, Americans should focus on the validity of a person’s ideas. As the popular conservative analyst Ben Shapiro says, “facts don’t care about your feelings.” It’s time to start valuing logic and reasoning as a way to persuade people toward a side of the aisle. Lauren Moses is a sophomore accounting and political science major from Dallas.
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in the United States, and 134 of those deaths involve an opioid. In 2017, 256 people died of overdos-
es in Mississippi, and 74 percent of those overdoses involved opioids. He said there were 183
force) to punish others that have benefited similarly, but it is my hope that we can self-reflect and move forward.” At the last forum, Davis introduced the idea of changing personality elections to an interview and application-based process, which she said is similar to how other
schools in the SEC conduct their personality elections. “We’re looking at different models like the Who’s Who Committee,” Davis said. “That’s laid out in the (ASB) Code, and that’s a pretty diverse and widespread campus group. I definitely think there should be students on the
committee.” ASB President Elam Miller said at the first forum that all of the ideas students suggested there would need to be formally introduced and passed in the ASB Senate. “It’s obvious that campus elections needs some drastic changes,” Miller said. “This is
a great first step in this long process. But, again, it’s a long process.” Davis and Sistrunk said their next step after the forum is to “begin working with Senators in writing election reform legislation.”
her state speaks to her lack of concern and knowledge about the experience of people who don’t look like her,” part of the statement reads. Wednesday’s Overy Center panel will focus on the national implications of Mississippi’s historic runoff and the midterm elections’ effect on President Donald Trump’s tenure in office. Barbour graduated from Ole Miss in 1999 and is a campaign consultant based in Jackson. He managed U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker’s successful 2008 senatorial campaign and served as national financial chairman on former Republican Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. Barbour got his start in politics working with his uncle, former Republican Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour, on the governor’s 2003 gubernatorial campaign.
Jones, a Jackson-based attorney, represented Mississippi’s 111th district in the state House of Representatives from 2008-2012, where he served as vice-chair of the Insurance Committee. He is the co-founder of the Mississippi Democratic Trust, a political action committee that raises money for Democratic candidates across Mississippi. Jones is a native of Pascagoula and completed his undergraduate studies at Mississippi College in 1999. When Espy and HydeSmith meet to debate in Jackson, they will become the state’s first Senate candidates to debate since Sen. Wicker and Democrat Robert Musgrove in 2008. In the runoff on Nov. 27, HydeSmith could become the first woman elected to represent Mississippi in the Senate, while Espy could become the first black senator from the state since Reconstruction. The debate between these two candidates will be aired on WLBT and will be hosted by the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. According to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, the two campaigns met with Farm Bureau on Tuesday to finalize plans for the debate.
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Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Lt. John Harless speaks about his experience fighting the opioid epidemic in Mississippi at the opioid forum on Tuesday night.
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continued from page 1 ramifications of the midterms in Mississippi and beyond.” On Tuesday, Espy agreed to a Nov. 27 debate with HydeSmith in Jackson. Espy’s decision to accept the debate comes just days after HydeSmith attracted national attention for joking about being on the front row of a “public hanging” in a video posted to Twitter on Sunday morning. “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row,” Hyde-Smith said in Tupelo while praising a supporter. Espy’s campaign released a statement on Sunday condemning the senator’s remarks. “Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comments are reprehensible. They have no place in our political discourse, in Mississippi, or our country. We need leaders not dividers, and her words show that she lacks the understanding and judgement to represent the people of our state,” the statement said.
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Hyde-Smith’s campaign released a statement rejecting any negative connotation drawn from her remarks. “In a comment on Nov. 2, I referred to accepting an invitation to a speaking engagement. In referencing the one who invited me, I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous,” the statement read. In an appearance with Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday, Hyde-Smith referred reporters to her statement when
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abuse in the United States. “I didn’t realize that (Americans) used opioids to such a level,” Pandelidies said. “Over 80 percent of opioids consumed in the world are consumed in the United States.” Zachary Miller, a pharmacy graduate student, said he attended the meeting because of personal exposure to opioid misuse. “I’ve had a little brother from my fraternity actually die from an opiate overdose,” Miller said. “After that, I, myself, got a Narcan prescription through the statewide order and gave that to a friend (who) was able to save someone from the overdose.”
million dosage units of opioids dispensed in Mississippi in 2017. “It’s very easy to stereotype what a drug addict looks like,” Harless said. “I will tell you in my 20 years of doing this, you can’t stereotype an opioid addict. You name it, and they function through the illness. Nobody wakes up and says, “This is the day I’m going to become a heroin addict, this is the day I’m going to stick a needle in my arm.’” Zach Pandelidies, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of biomolecular science, recently moved to Mississippi from Canada and said he was not aware of the widespread opioid
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ROUNDUP: OXFORD’S BEST BREAD With all of the “let’s get this bread” memes on social media, there isn’t a better snack to indulge in this week. Because of the recent popularity of this meme, here are the best places to get bread in Oxford, so you can enjoy a nice treat after you “get that bread.”
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The top spot to get freshly baked, homemade-style pastries in Oxford is Bottletree Bakery on the Square. Everything is made daily from scratch. Not only can you get freshly baked pastries but also bread and other baked goods. Bottletree has all different kinds including whole wheat, rosemary garlic, ninegrain and, of course, sourdough. It also has some of the best croissants I’ve ever had. You have the choice of buttered (a fan favorite), chocolate, ham and swiss or turkey and cheddar. Each croissant has 1,280 flaky delicate layers that melt in your mouth instantly after each bite. If the croissant doesn’t suit your taste buds, then brioche might be for you. Famous in France, this fluffy yeast dough is filled with light sweet cream and the fruit filling of the day. Each bite is sweet and absolutely delicious. There is no doubt that Bottletree Bakery is the place to satisfy your pastry needs.
It is a well-known fact that the tastiest bagels are found in New York City, but you can still get your bagel fix in Oxford. Beagle Bagel Cafe offers 19 different bagels to choose from with 10 kinds of cream cheese. My personal favorite is the asiago cheese bagel with garlic and herb cream cheese. Each bagel comes toasted warm with a heaping amount of cream cheese spread. The bagels here can become breakfast sandwiches, too, if you add meats or cheese to any bagel on the menu. The South loves its biscuits and gravy, but nothing compares to sitting down in the morning with a toasted bagel with cream cheese or butter. Handmade and freshly baked daily, Beagle Bagel Cafe’s bagels are a must for those who need their carb fix before a long day of grinding.
Best bread This category was one of the easiest as Panera is known nationwide for incorporating freshly baked bread into every meal. Panera offers specialty bread along with bagels, pastries and baked goods. Because Panera offers over 15 different types of bread, you can’t go wrong with any choice. My personal favorite bread offering of Panera’s is the bread bowl. The iconic sourdough bread bowl is the perfect pair for any of the gourmet, homestyle soups. Who wouldn’t want a bowl that you can eat afterward?
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Queen fans reflect on Freddie Mercury, new biopic EMMA MCCABE MEREDITH ENGER
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Queen is still the champion. The 2018 biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which details the history of the band Queen, has earned more than $290 million at box offices worldwide since its release. This past weekend, “Bohemian Rhapsody” became the highest grossing musical biopic in history, surpassing “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the rap group NWA, which earned more than $201.6 million during its run in theaters. The movie is a celebration of the music and life of the band Queen, especially the lead singer, Freddie Mercury, played by Rami Malek. The movie tracks the band through its formative years — when Freddie Mercury went by his real name, Farrokh Bulsara — and ends with the band’s iconic Live Aid performance in 1985, which is known as one of the greatest live performances by a musical group of all time. Dylan Fink, a member of the University of Mississippi Concert Singers, said he believes Freddie Mercury is the epitome of a showman. “Queen had a profound impact on rock ‘n’ roll by expanding its definition to include a broader range of influences,” Fink said. “The operatic section in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was
strange but highlighted the existing operatic influences in the broader rock ‘n’ roll genre.” Fink, a bass singer, said he has never been able to perform a Queen song due to Freddie Mercury’s high vocal range. “I have been known to yell out a few operatic ‘Bismillahs’ when requested to participate in a group karaoke rendition of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’” he said. Beyond being an entertaining depiction of a popular musician, “Bohemian Rhapsody” tells the story of a man who influenced both rock ‘n’ roll music and society’s perception of the LGBTQ community and AIDS. “He helped to shape the individualist, ‘let-your-freak-flag-fly’
movement within the rock ‘n’ roll tradition,” Fink said. “His legacy is of particular importance to the LGBTQ community and promotion of inclusivity. His legacy also persists as a central figure in promoting HIV and AIDS awareness.” Freddie Mercury died on Nov. 24, 1991, at the age of 45 of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. Jaime Harker, a gender studies professor at the university, said Freddie Mercury’s star status contributed to the 1970s movement of blurring gender roles in music. “Freddie Mercury was part of a larger trend of LGBTQ performers in the 1970s who were
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visible to LGBTQ folks without being ‘out’ in general,” Harker said. “And though he didn’t reveal his HIV status until right before he died, talking about it publicly was also important for the LGBTQ community at a time when AIDS was still very taboo.” Harker believes that a major studio producing a movie about Queen and Freddie Mercury’s influence shows the national interest in opening a conversation about gender expression. “I am interested to see how the younger generation perceives Freddie Mercury,” said Harker. “His superstar status definitely meant that queering gender didn’t bar one from success in the music industry.
That was very important in an industry that isn’t always courageous.” Morgan Kelly, a sophomore psychology major, has already seen the movie once and said she plans to go see it again. “I have a short attention span, so the fact that I stayed interested in a two-hour long movie was a big feat,” Kelly said. “I thought it was extremely well done, and the casting was spot on.” Leigh Anne Duck, an English professor, remembers Queen at its peak. “What a great band,” Duck said. “They were in their prime when I was a kid, which means their (music) would be the one eight-track that would be at every overnight, every camp and every bus trip.” Even though biopics are not Duck’s favorite film genre, she said she understands that they are incredibly successful. “It certainly appeals to fandoms that are already out there,” Duck said. “This genre is great for actors. (It’s) a clear challenge and so impressive when someone nails it.” Malek has already received rave reviews for his performance. According to David Edelstein of Vulture, “The actor might not be as handsome as (Freddie) Mercury, but he’s nearly as magnetic, and he makes you believe that that voice is coming out of that body — an amazing feat.”
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Women’s hoops looks to bounce back against Temple JACK GENTRY
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Head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin and the Rebels will look for a bounce-back victory against the Temple Owls on Wednesday night. Ole Miss took down the Owls last year with a convincing 64-48 win on the road. With an almost entirely new team and a head coach in her first season, the Rebels still have a lot of room to grow and improve this season. The game on Wednesday will be a litmus test for the Rebels. “We’re learning how to win through adversity,” McPhee-McCuin said, following the weekend loss to IUPUI. “In order to win, you can’t just want to win in your heart. You have to be willing to do what it (takes), and IUPUI did what it took to win on the road.” Temple has started off this
season 2-0, most recently beating Saint Joseph’s 5852 in the first stop of their six-game road trip. The Owls will bring a couple of Preseason second-team All-AAC members, Mia Davis and Alliya Butts, to Oxford. Davis leads the Owls in scoring with 16.5 points per game, while also averaging 8.5 rebounds. Butts has averaged 15 points per game while dishing out a team-high 3.5 assists per game through Temple’s first two contests. In the Rebels’ showdown with the Owls last year, Shandricka Sessom scored a teamhigh 23 points to go with eight boards. The senior is coming off a torn ACL this season but seems to be getting back to her scoring ways, as she scored 11 points in the loss to IUPUI. The Rebels will look to lean on Sessom, as well as Crystal Allen, offensively. Allen had 23 points in the game against
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Scottie Phillips’ status remains uncertain for Saturday JUSTIN DIAL
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Scottie Phillips remains day-to-day with an ankle injury after leaving Saturday’s game against Texas A&M early in the first quarter. He logged just four yards on three attempts before exiting for the remainder of the game. On Tuesday, Scottie Phillips did not participate in practice. Following practice, Ole Miss running backs coach Derrick Nix offered an update on Phillips’ status. “(He’s) just day-to-day right now,” Nix said. “He had a sprained ankle on Saturday. Rehabbing right now, icing it and trying to get treatment on it, so he’s day to day. He hasn’t been ruled in or out.” In the event that Phillips can’t go against Vanderbilt, Isaiah Woullard and Eric Swinney will be expected to fill his role. Woullard, who has shown flashes of ability in his limited playing time, will likely be the main guy in the backfield for the Rebels. “You miss Scottie’s feet some, but very impressed. Isaiah (Woullard) broke some tackles. He did put one ball on the ground, he’s got to be better with ball security, but proud of the way he stepped up,” head coach Matt Luke said. On the other hand, Swinney hasn’t seen as much action in 2018 as Woullard has. He missed the first three games of the season with mononucleosis and has registered just 11 carries in the seven games he’s appeared in. “Eric (Swinney) got six or seven plays and did well when
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Running back Scottie Phillips looks for an opening around Auburn defensive backs Daniel Thomas and Jordyn Peters earlier this season. Auburn won the game 31-16. he was in there,” Luke said. “(He and Woullard) did well.” Although he didn’t practice on Tuesday, there is still a real possibility that Phillips can suit up on Saturday if his ankle heals in time. “I think with his toughness if he gets himself to about 85-90 percent, I think he’ll will his way onto the field,” Nix said. “We don’t wanna do anything that’s gonna cause a further injury, but I think he’ll do ev-
erything he can to get himself back out and help our team.” Regardless, If Phillips can’t go against Vanderbilt it will certainly be a blow for the Rebels’ offense. However, Nix doesn’t expect Phillips’ possible absence to have any major effect on the offense as a whole. “It doesn’t change (our offense) at all,” Nix said. “We feel confident with what Isaiah (Woullard) can bring to the
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table. I think he did a great job on Saturday against A&M. (It’s) the most reps he’s had all year in one game and I thought he handled it well.” Woullard, a Hattiesburg native, was a three-star prospect with only three offers coming out of high school. He carries himself with a humble attitude, which may originate from being overlooked during his recruitment. “Isaiah Woullard is an awesome kid,” Nix said. “You’re talking about a guy you wanna go to battle with.
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(Woullard) works hard in the weight room, works hard in the classroom, a guy that’s on time, where he’s supposed to be. He’s doing extra — he’s just a great teammate. You kind of forget he’s just a freshman.” Woullard has been preparing as if he will be the starter all season, which is a testament to his work ethic and “chip on the shoulder” mentality that he brought with him to Oxford. “I’ve worked hard and I’ve prepared,” Woullard said. “I think the time is now.”
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A.J. Brown could soon add another feather to his hat. Brown broke the school record for all-time receiving yards on Saturday, amassing 2,711 yards so far in his Ole Miss career. His total yardage was enough to surpass Shea Hodge’s record of 2,646 set in 2009. While it took Hodge all four years as a Rebel to attain the record, Brown has done it in just under three years in Oxford. “(A.J. Brown) has been around a lot of great receivers here at Ole Miss,” head coach Matt Luke said at a press conference on Monday. “For him to be the all-time leading receiver, that’s a pretty special accomplishment for him.” Along with his new record, Brown was named one of 11 semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award on Monday, an honor bestowed upon college football’s most prolific receiver each season. Although wide receivers, tight ends and running backs are all eligible for the award, Brown has made his case for the honor in 2018 with 1,047 receiving yards and five touchdowns on the season. He has also pro-
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Wide receiver A.J. Brown celebrates after catching a pass by Jordan Ta’amu for a touchdown during the game against South Carolina earlier this season. South Carolina won the game 48-44. been able to accomplish,” Luke could care less about individual duced five 100-yard receiving games, and his 1,047 yards rank said. “His attitude has been out- awards. He wants the team to standing. I know he’ll want to do well, (and) I am very proud.” fifth nationally. finish things the right way. He After an injury to D.K. “Really proud of what he’s
Metcalf earlier this season, the Ole Miss receiving corps experienced some shakeup in its alignment. According to Luke, Brown has handled this shakeup with class and has been able to produce on the field no matter where he lines up pre-snap. “He’s been very unselfish — playing inside, playing outside,” Luke said. “He’s very versatile. That will do nothing but help him going forward, his ability to do a bunch of different things.” Brown’s versatility has helped him gain his impressive career receiving numbers and has helped ensure his spot among the final 11 Biletnikoff semifinalists. “(Brown’s record is) pretty amazing because some of the guys he passed were four-year guys,” Luke said. “It’s a tribute to him and how hard he works. For him to do it in such a short amount of time says a lot about him as a player.” Three finalists for the Biletnikoff will be announced on Nov. 19, followed by a vote by the Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee. The committee is made up of college football journalists, commentators, announcers and former Biletnikoff Award winners.
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