OXFORD, Miss. -- It would be so much simpler if only the University of Mississippi mascot was some goofy animal. Like the Georgia Bulldog or the Florida Gator. It wouldn't even have to be an animal.

A professor at the University of Iowa is concerned that the school’s hawk mascot, Herky, looks angry — and its appearance could be contributing to a culture of violence, depression ...

There might be no other current FBS school with a more complicated mascot history than the one at the University of Mississippi ... War before he arrived in Oxford, and was the leader of that ...