Chase Parham
Editor and reporter, RebelGrove.com; Owner, MPW Digital
Chase Parham is the editor and a reporter for RebelGrove.com, a team-site owned by Rivals.com (a Yahoo company) that focuses on Ole Miss athletics. RebelGrove.com is an industry leader in the space and also includes The Grove, an online forum community with millions of impressions each month. Chase has covered Ole Miss football and baseball since 2006 and has been with Rivals.comsince May 2009. Prior to his current position, Chase held similar roles for Scout.com and ESPN.
Chase co-owns MPW Digital, the most downloaded podcast network in Mississippi. The network often offers up to 15 shows across genres each week. In 2017, Podbean named BlueSky Live, the network's flagship podcast, one of the top 10 sports podcasts nationally. MPW Digital was one of Blue Wire's top five networks in 2024 -- a national ad-placement company that services more than 300 sports podcast networks.
Chase has been the preeminent voice covering Ole Miss baseball during his tenure on the beat, and in 2022, following the Rebels' College World Series championship, he released Resilient Rebels: Ole Miss Baseball's Remarkable Path to a National Title. The book chronicles the events that led up to those climactic months and how the results affected many lives intertwined with the team. The book reached No. 1 in Amazon.com's baseball category and was one of the top five books sold in Mississippi book stores in 2022.
Chase, originally from Amory, Mississippi, has been the Ole Miss M-Club Hall of Fame Induction master of ceremony since 2022, was an inaugural member of the Ole Miss Alumni Association Top 40 Under 40 and serves on the Humanities Advisory Board at Itawamba Community College.