Your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum exists to extol and preserve the splendid sports history of the Magnolia State. We do so without any tax support for operations for a 24,000 square foot museum that is normally open six days a week, 52 weeks a year. So what better way to raise money […]
Experts says we lose 1.5 percent of muscle strength every year after we reach the age of 50. The PGA Champions Tour, which visits the Gulf Coast this week, is for golfers 50 and over. That means Kent Biggerstaff has his PGA “gym on wheels” parked at Fallen Oak for the Mississippi Gulf Resorts Classic […]
BILOXI — I was cruising along through seven holes in the Mississippi Gulf Resorts Classic Wednesday Pro-Am at drop-dead gorgeous Fallen Oak. I made two birdies, one for a net eagle, and an up-and-down par out of a deep bunker. More importantly, I hadn’t lost a single ball. That’s how I usually measure my golf […]
BILOXI — Willie Wood, a graying 55 years old now, was a golf prodigy as early as four decades ago. Indeed, few would have been shocked had he become a world champion. A Texan by birth and a Louisianan growing up, Wood was a national junior champion as a teen and the world’s No. 1 […]
When the 77th NCAA Tournament Final Four is completed next Monday, 308 teams will have competed in college basketball’s ultimate showcase. And here’s what you need to know about that. Of those 308 teams, only one has been from the Magnolia State: the 1995-96 Mississippi State Bulldogs. It was my great fortune to cover those […]
BILOXI —Steve Pate, a 54-year-old, six-time PGA Tour champion, looked like a man walking around in traction Tuesday on the practice tee at lush Fallen Oak Tuesday. When he actually swung his golf club, with all that gear on, you wanted to cringe for him. Pate had straps all over him, resistant bands stretching from […]
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 […]
