This was September, 1979. Mississippi State’s football team was playing Maryland at College Park, Md. The late, great Orley Hood and I covered the game for the Jackson newspapers. We spent all day Friday and Saturday morning touring our nation’s capital. Orley was — and I am — a history buff. We probably set a […]
The next five days will be busy ones at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. They also will be interesting. Mostly, they will be informative. In cooperation with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Smithsonian Institution, the MSHOF will host three events to complement the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams.” Events include: • […]
Mississippi will celebrate what thus far has been a remarkable 2016 college baseball season with the C Spire Ferriss Trophy awards luncheon on May 23 and will do so in Boo Ferriss’s hometown of Cleveland. The Cleveland Country Club will host the 2016 Ferriss Trophy luncheon beginning with a meal at 11:30 and the […]
Former Ole Miss football great Billy Mustin, who later became Director of the Ole Miss Loyalty Foundation, died earlier this week at 87. A graveside service will be held today at 2 p.m. at Oxford Memorial Cemetery. Mustin, who played for Coach John Vaught and then served him as an assistant coach, was one Vaught’s […]
The 2016 Masters likely will be remembered as the one that washed away from 22-year-old Jordan Spieth when two of his shots landed in a watery grave known as Rae’s Creek. But we should not forget that 29-year-old Englishman Danny Willett won with a masterful round of 67 on Sunday. And we should not forget […]
Archie Manning was a 10-year veteran with the New Orleans Saints when Hokie Gajan came to the team as a rookie, a 10th round draft pick out of LSU. Nobody around here needs a primer on the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry. “Hoke came to camp and he wore these old, beat-up white football shoes that had […]
In basketball, we call it “garbage time.” One team has an insurmountable lead on the other with the clock winding down. The winning coach clears his bench, giving little-used “scrubs” a chance to play. Garbage time? Not for McKie Edmondson, now a 40-year-old Madison businessman. Edmondson, a high school standout at Jackson Academy, was […]
Wright Thompson, award winning senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, will join Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum historian Rick Cleveland Monday for the first of a series of programs in conjunction with The Smithsonian traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams.” The program will begin at 5 p.m. at the MSHOF. Thompson, a Clarksdale native who […]
