MSU Football Players Protest Practice

MSU Football Players Protest Practice

Sports around the country have been brought to a two- day standstill this afternoon, mississippi state football became the latest of college athletic programs to boycott practice this was the scene at unity park in starkville, thursday evening after mississippi state players decided to boycott practice the collective boycott that is sweeping sports throughout the nation began with the milwaukee bucks refusing to compete in a playoff game on wednesday to raise awareness for the shooting of jacob blake, a black man who was shot 7x by police in kenosha wisconsin following the protest by the bulldogs mississippi state head coach took to twitter to share his thoughts saying "i am proud to be the head football coach at mississippi state.

I applaud our players for expressing some of their fears and anxieties today.

I support them and look forward to working with them tomorrow, to use football to elevate us and the people around us.

Hail state!"

The bulldogs are expected to resume practice on friday m-s-u is the fourth f-b-s school