The Sigma Nu Charity Bowl, which began in 1990 to honor and raise money for fallen Ole Miss football player Chucky Mullins, will be played for the 27th time Thursday night at the Oxford-Lafayette Sportsplex. Mullins was injured in the 1989 Ole Miss homecoming game with Vanderbilt when he tackled Commodore fullback Brad Gaines. Mullins […]
This was 1970 in Hattiesburg, where, until then, Hattiesburg High had fielded all-white basketball teams and cross-town Rowan had been all-black. Both had been traditional winners through the years but neither had won a state championship. That was about to change. At Rowan, there was a tall, lean basketball marvel, Eugene Short. He was […]
Basketball Hall of Fame coach Van Chancellor drawls on and on in superlatives when asked about Geno Auriemma and his Connecticut women’s basketball juggernaut. Hey, Van, is UConn the most dominant team in sports today? “Ain’t no question about it,” Chancellor says, by telephone from his Houston home. “There’s nobody else today to compare ’em […]
(Writer’s note: On this day, 53 years ago, Hall of Famer Babe McCarthy’s Mississippi State basketball team flew out of Mississippi, secretively, to go play an NCAA Tournament game against Loyola of Chicago at East Lansing, Mich. It is known as the Game of Change. In April, of 2011, Joe Dan Gold, the Mississippi […]
The Smithsonian Institution is coming to Mississippi. The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, in partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council, will showcase “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America.” The Smithsonian traveling exhibit will begin a six-week run at the Jackson museum on March 18. “Hometown Teams” captures the stories that unfold on the […]
Ennis Proctor this July will become only the eighth Mississippian inducted into the National High School Sports Hall of Fame. Trust me: No administrator, here or anywhere, could be more deserving. The 2016 High School Hall of Fame induction class will include such sports luminaries as Steve Spurrier and Marlin Briscoe.Proctor couldn’t throw like Spurrier […]
No surprises today at the C Spire Howell and Gillom awards luncheon: Victoria Vivians of Mississippi State won the trophy named for Peggie Gillom and Stefan Moody of Ole Miss won the trophy named for Bailey Howell. Both were repeat winners and both were deserving — and then some. Both players have brought much joy […]
Victoria Vivians of Mississippi State and Stefon Moody of Ole Miss are the repeat winners of the C Spire Gillom and Howell trophies, respectively. The awards were presented Monday at a luncheon at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, which co-sponsors the awards with C Spire. Moody, a senior, led the Southeastern Conference […]
