The latest news on Nick Bell is, well, that there is no news. Normally I wouldn't put up a FanShot for something like that, except there's been an anonymous rumor going around since this morning that Bell had passed away. I'm very happy to put that rumor in the busted bin.

It's a stroke of good fortune that Mississippi State is in a bye week right now. That fact allowed Dan Mullen and about 50 players to visit Bell at the hospital in Birmingham yesterday.