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Hotty Toddy News Services - February 19, 2025

Chick-Fil-A to Hide Tickets in Oxford for Kickoff Game Featuring UM vs. Boise St.

West Jackson Ave. Chick-Fil-A will hide a pair of tickets each day (Aug. 11-15) in the community for fans to win two game tickets,...

20 Things You Might Have Missed at Ole Miss This Summer

We know many of you leave in May and come back in August and think that the campus shuts down without your presence. Well,...

Oxford Ranked Second Most Exciting Place in Mississippi

Mississippi is one of the friendliest, most charming, and most downright quintessential southern states in the country—plus it’s home of the world’s largest cactus...

We Need Some Cheap Land — Move the Indians Out West

This is the second part in Dick Gentry's article on James Gordon and Pontotoc's Lochinvar that Gordon built. Dick is a HottyToddy.com contributor, former...

Services for No. 1 Rebel Fan Chance Tetrick Today, Tomorrow

Monday afternoon the world lost Chance Tetrick, arguably the Ole Miss Rebels' biggest fan. Chance was 11 when he passed after battling with Acute...

Laser & Medspa at Shell Plastic Surgery Can Return Faces to Glowing Health

It may be the dawn of football season, but cell turnover has nothing to do with the Rebels or your local mobile phone provider. Dr....

"Family Heirloom" Couch for Sale in Oxford

The Natchez canoe isn't the only artifact generating a buzz in Oxford this week. Oxford MS Furniture Resale, a Facebook group, reacted to a...

What! Did “John Wayne’s” Cavalry Try to Burn Pontotoc’s Lochinvar?

It’s a bit sad that modern Mississippians know so little about Scotsman James Gordon, Ole Miss grad class of 1855, CSA Colonel, Mississippi U.S....

An Open Letter to Ole Miss, Part Two: The Little Things

I wrote an open letter back in April thanking Ole Miss for giving me the best college experience anyone could have ever asked for....

Ole Miss Business Plan Competition Winner Finds Herself in Fashion

Taylor Isabel Thomas, a rising star in the fashion industry, seemed like an unlikely candidate to win the Ole Miss Gillespie Business Plan Competition. Born...