Stefan Moody doesn’t have a vote for the C Spire Howell Trophy, but he cast a ballot the best way he knew how Wednesday night in Oxford. Moody, a senior playing on Senior Night, poured in 43 points to lead the Ole Miss Rebels to an 86-78 victory over arch-rival Mississippi State. Fellow Howell Trophy […]
Ole Miss senior guard Stefan Moody and Mississippi State sophomore guard Victoria Vivians lead a list of six finalists for the 2016 C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophies, which annually honors the state’s top male and female college basketball players. Moody, the SEC’s leading scorer at 22.8 points per game and the 2015 C Spire […]
The 2016 inductees into the NJCAA Men’s Golf Coaches Association were this week. This year’s class is headlined by the first female member in former Meridian (Miss.) golfer and coach Lou Weddington Hart. Lou Weddington Hart Golfer/Coach – Meridian (MS) Arriving at Meridian in 1970 – two years prior to the enactment of Title IX […]
Last week’s death of Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Jim Davenport brought a barrage of memories, all good ones. His nickname was Peanuts. Don’t know how he got it, and, for some reason, I never asked. My daddy just called him “Nuts” and it seemed as natural as Sam or Joe to me. Davenport was […]
So, I read where draft nerd Mel Kiper has questions about Laquon Treadwell’s speed. Says he needs to run a fast 40-yard dash at the NFL combine to solidify his position as the top wide receiver in the draft. Here’s my beef with that: That’s placing far too much emphasis on how fast a football […]
In all, 304 basketball teams have participated in the NCAA Final Four that began in 1939. Only one of those 304 has been from Mississippi: The 1995-96 Mississippi State Bulldogs. Those Final Four Bulldogs will be celebrated March 31, two days before this year’s Final Four, at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and […]
We lost another Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer this week and I wish my father were here to write this obit. Jim Davenport was a close friend of my late father, Ace Cleveland. Davenport, nicknamed Peanuts, was a baseball and football star at Southern Miss in the early 1950s and later a Gold Glove third […]
We lost the ineffable Willie Richardson last week, dead at age 76, a football legend surely beloved by all who knew him, no matter their allegiances. Richardson was a Jackson State man whose playing career takes us back to a different time in Mississippi and America when historically black colleges in the Deep South were […]
