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Joel Taylor will take over Mercer's football program, Mercer Athletics announced on Thursday, after former head coach Mike Jacobs left Macon for the University of Toledo.
Men's basketball
Mercer football’s season ended in the second round of the FCS Playoffs on Saturday as the Bears were shut out 47-0 at home by the University of South Dakota. The loss capped a Southern Conference-winning season in which Mercer went 9-4 overall and advanced to the second round of the playoffs as the No. 6-ranked team in the FCS.
Mercer's recently formed Wii Club is supplying nostalgia in spades to students with mainstream games like Mario Kart, Wii Sports and Just Dance. Even games like Crash Bandicoot may ring a bell for participants playing the on a Wii console for the first time in years.
The Student Government Association's annual Christmas Tree Lighting set Toney Auditorium aglow with candlelight and holiday cheer on Thursday evening. The governing body and its Heritage and Life Committee organized the event, which featured several choral performances and Christmas carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas,” addresses from guest speakers, and of course, the lighting of the Christmas tree.
The lights were out in Stetson Hall and a roomful of students paid attention to the screen. Nobody was taking notes, nor was a professor lecturing. Instead, the 2019 whodunit film “Knives Out” played to a rapt audience in mid-November.
From the sporting spotlight to the stage, Stephen O’Hearn '26 is a student-athlete at Mercer University who ditched his cleats and picked up a script in a dramatic change of career path after graduating college. Standing on set, he waits in eager anticipation for the director’s action call, with the same excitement he used to have to hear the referee’s whistle during his college soccer career.
At 5:30 a.m., when most of Mercer’s campus is still dark and silent, cadets from the University's Reserve Officers' Training Corps battalion lace up their boots for morning PT, or physical training. As Mercer student continue to sleep across campus, the cadets gather around Kicklighter Hall, which houses the campus’s ROTC program. The physical and mental discipline of early morning training is at the core of the cadet’s commitment to ROTC and their future aspirations as commissioned officers.
When the stands fall silent during a timeout or the game clock winds down at halftime, one group refuses to let the energy dip: the Mercer dance team. With new routines every week and crowds of students, parents and alumni watching closely, the dancers are the spirit-keepers of the sidelines.
Through the front door of the McCorkle Music Building, down the hallway and into the first door on the left, Brittan Braddock stood firm on her podium. Braddock, Mercer's director of bands and coordinator of music education, calmly lifted her baton in front of the Mercer University Wind Ensemble, then brought it down. At her signal, the entire ensemble erupted.
As the stage lights dim and the Baptist Collegiate Ministries worship team takes their place on stage, Newton Chapel fills with students preparing to worship the Lord at Baptist Collegiate Ministries at their weekly Thursday evening meeting.
Mercer quarterback Braden Atkinson '29 became the first Southern Conference player and first player in Mercer football history to win the coveted Jerry Rice Award, an award that honors the best freshman football player in the FCS, on Wednesday, Dec. 3.
The Macon Christmas Light Extravaganza is back downtown with music, lights and crowds filling the streets each night. The event features rows of glowing walkways lined with lighted Christmas trees, giant ornaments, reindeer figures, musical instruments and a sleigh, all moving and flickering in sync with the Christmas music that fills the atmosphere.
Superstitions are as old as sports themselves. From lucky socks to pregame rituals, athletes and coaches often cling to routines that seem to bring good fortune. But Mercer football may have stumbled into one of the most unusual good luck traditions in recent memory: one that starts not on the field, but over the phone.
The Mercer community gathers for a beloved tradition of flickering candles, dazzling decorations and cherished carols in Toney Auditorium every December. For the second year in a row, the tree lighting will feature two singing groups: the Mercer Singers and a chorus made up of students from Roberts Academy, a local transitional school for children with dyslexia.
Covington, Ga. might look like a regular small town, but it is actually one of the most-filmed places in the South. Its streets have shown up in countless movies and TV shows, making it a kind of open-air studio.
No. 7 Mercer football (9-2, 8-0 Southern Conference) will face No. 11 University of South Dakota (9-4, 6-2 Missouri Valley Football Conference) in the second round of the NCAA FCS playoffs this Saturday, Dec. 6.
This is an opinion article. Any views expressed belong solely to the author and are not representative of The Cluster, any organizations the author is a member of or the faculty, staff or administration at Mercer University.
Season three of “Monster,” directed by Max Winkler, follows notorious Wisconsin grave robber and murderer Ed Gein, and was released Oct. 3, 2025. A Gein is most known for making items like masks out of the bodies of women he exhumed. The season explored Gein’s mental sickness by showing his fascination with the taboo activity. Watchers like myself were immediately hooked, never having heard of him before.
MerServe's Hunger and Homelessness Committee hosted its first “Giving Thanks and Giving Back” from Nov. 21-23, a Thanksgiving-themed event with six separate community service opportunities.
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