Tonight, we’ll celebrate a victory won 35 years ago: State 6, Alabama 3. In my half century of covering Mississippi sports, the game remains one of the most poignant happenings. Recently I’ve had some folks ask: Why celebrate a game played 35 years ago? To which the answer is: Maybe you just had to be […]
Mississippi’s Sanderson Farms Championship has often served as a springboard to success for some of the biggest names on the PGA Tour. Former Clarion-Ledger sports editor Rusty Hampton, now a board member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, was on the Annandlae practice range in 2008 when he encountered a 20-year-old named Jason Day. […]
The morning blog: • Folks in Louisiana, including media, already talk and write about the possibility of the Saints drafting Leonard Fournette. Just my opinion: Robert Nkemdiche would cure more ills. So would Laremy Tunsil for that matter. I love Leonard Fournette, but the Saints already have $17 million in guaranteed money tied up in […]
We’ve discussed the Ole Miss Rebels’ landmark victory over Alabama. Now then, other observations from the weekend… • Watched Seattle-Green Bay Sunday night after watching the Saints and Bucs wage their pillow right earlier in the day. The night game vs. the afternoon game evoked this revelation: “Ah, so this is what it is supposed […]
So, I awakened this morning and immediately checked the newspaper, which I mostly read on my telephone, and the score was still the same: Ole Miss 43, Alabama 37 (at Tuscaloosa). I don’t know what would have seemed more strange 20 years ago: that score or mostly reading the newspaper on my phone. So it […]
You couldn’t make this up… The date was Oct. 31, 1980, and into the wee and then not-so-wee hours of Nov. 1, same year. We’re talking nearly 35 years, so I am thinking the statute of limitations is up. Besides, I don’t work for The Clarion-Ledger any more. They can’t fire me. No. 1-ranked Alabama […]
Can’t tell you how many times lately I’ve been asked: “Does USM have a chance?” or “What’s going to happen in Hattiesburg?” Well, it rained here in Fondren yesterday for the first time since July 4, so anything is possible. But back to the question: This is college football. Anything really is possible. Not always […]
All right, college football starts this week. Everybody is undefeated. Excitement is at pitch, fever pitch, that is. And even if you don’t go to the games, you can turn on your TV at 11 Saturday morning and watch football non-stop till past midnight or until your spouse changes the channel and tosses the remote […]
