Thursday, April 6
Pro baseball, Huntsville at Mississippi (7 p.m., Pearl, 930 AM): The M-Braves' season opens in the T-P's friendly confines.
Friday, April 7
College baseball, William Carey vs. Belhaven (6:30 p.m.): Witness a GCAC hatefest at Smith-Wills Stadium. They play a doubleheader on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 8
College football, Mississippi State spring game (noon, Starkville) and Ole Miss Red-Blue Game (1 p.m., Oxford): Nobody loses. … College baseball, Jackson State vs. Mississippi Valley State (2 p.m., Greenville): Delta casinos, anyone?
Sunday, April 9
Pro baseball, Huntsville at Mississippi (1 p.m., Pearl, 930 AM): Quit watching TV and get outdoors during daytime for once.
Monday, April 10
Pro baseball, Huntsville at Mississippi (7 p.m., Pearl, 930 AM): The Braves and Stars conclude their season-opening series.
Tuesday, April 11
College baseball, Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State (6:30 p.m., 620 AM, 97.3 FM): The two rivals meet in the annual Mayor's Trophy game at Smith-Wills Stadium. What are they going to call this game when it inevitably moves to Pearl?
Wednesday, April 12
Movies, "Too Many Girls" (5:30 p.m., TCM) and "Horsefeathers" (7 p.m., TCM): Here's a college football doubleheader. In the first, Lucy and Desi share the screen for the first time in 1940. In the second, Groucho Marx is college president who mistakenly recruits two lunatics for the football team. When that happens in the real world, it's seldom a mistake.... College baseball, Millsaps vs. Mississippi College (6:30 p.m.): The Maloney Trophy Series resumes at Smith-Wills.
The Slate is compiled by Doctor S because it's there.