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The Jackson Bandits are home in the Big Barn (aka the Mississippi Coliseum) on Friday and Saturday for games with Columbia and Baton Rouge. Here’s the report from the team:

The Jackson Bandits are pleased to announce two unique and exciting promotions for this weekend’s home games on Friday November 1 and Saturday November 2. Game time for both dates is 7:05 p.m.

For our Friday, November 1 game vs. the Columbia Inferno, we are excited to announce “$5 Friday.” We want to help you introduce your friends, family, co-workers, and the general population to our team and our game. As part of this promotion, we are offering special $5 tickets (unlimited number). That’s a 50% discount off the box office price! Take it to the House — the “Big House” — this Friday night for Jackson Bandits hockey!

On Saturday’s (November 2) game vs. the Baton Rouge Kingfish, we are hosting “Blues Night.” Come help us celebrate Jackson’s rich blues heritage, as the hometown Juvenators will be playing live during intermission and after the game!

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.