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Ty Allushuski
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He currently serves as Assistant Director of Admissions at The University of Mississippi. and is a noted expert in the field of social media communications. Prior to returning to his alma mater to work in Higher Education, Allushuski was the sports editor of “The Lamar Times” and “The Petal News,” a pair of weekly newspapers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Previously, Allushuski worked as an editor and contributor for the Web site, RotoExperts.com covering fantasy sports.
He served as sports editor of The Oxford Enterprise, a weekly newspaper serving Oxford, Mississippi, and the surrounding Lafayette County area.
He was also the owner and publisher of the former Entertainment and Sports Programming Network-affiliate Web site, InsideTheGrove.com. Allushuski"s sports writing career began while a student at the University of Mississippi.
He covered Ole Mission sports as both a beat writer and columnist for the school"s newspaper, The Daily Mississippian. Between his sophomore and junior years, he interned at United States of America Today and wrote stories on the College World Series, the NFL and many different prep sports, among other topics.
He later signed a freelance agreement with the paper to write a piece on former NFL quarterback Joe Montana that never actually ran.
He later worked at The Birmingham News as a post-graduate international Allushuski mainly covered prep sports in Shelby County in suburban Birmingham, Alabama. He also assisted with the paper"s coverage of Alabama and head coach Nick Saban during the Crimson Tide"s rise to Number.
1 nationally in the fall of 2008.
Allushuski was also the paper"s de facto golf writer during his time there, and covered the 2008 United States. Junior Amateur Championship at Shoal Creek. Allushuski has been published on SI.com, Rivals.com, Scout.com, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com and in newspapers The Houston Chronicle, The Newark Star-Ledger, The Baton Rouge Advocate, and The Jackson (Mission) Clarion-Ledger.
