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Farewell column: Sports editor Brian Scott Rippee

As I sit here battling my emotions and struggling to put together words to describe my experience as The Daily Mississippian sports editor, I can’t help but remember how the year began.

It quite literally seems like last week that I was siting at a Waffle House in downtown Orlando, Florida, at 3 a.m. drinking a cup of coffee before I headed back to my hotel room. Ole Miss had just collapsed against Florida State in the second half of its season opener, and I had just left the Camping World Stadium press box around 2 a.