Today, The Clarion-Ledger published news of a Best of MSPreps program, a massive investment to honor the top Mississippi high school athletes. The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fames’s annual PopStars awards, which has for 13 years honored the state’s top high school athletes in every sport, will fold into the newspaper’s program. A portion of […]
OXFORD — Mississippi State shot a scalding 55.6 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3-point land, and out-rebounded Ole Miss 34-31. And State lost. Bulldog Craig Sword hit a career high five 3-pointers and scored 27 points. And State lost. In what was probably the last State-Ole Miss game ever at Tad Smith Coliseum, […]
Malcolm Smith of the Seattle Seahawks last year became only the third linebacker in Super Bowl history to win MVP honors. He followed Chuck Howley of the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V and Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XXXV. But the Las Vegas odds against Smith winning again are 100 […]
It was about this time of day 32 years ago when the news flashed across my computer screen at The Clarion-Ledger: “Bear Bryant has died. Details to come.” I was stunned. At first, I just flat didn’t believe it. I had covered his last game as a coach in the Liberty Bowl about a month […]
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Dave Whitney well remembers Baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks. After all, Whitney was supposed to be the “next Ernie Banks.” Indeed, Whitney took Banks’ place at shortstop in the Kansas City Monarchs lineup when the Chicago Cubs signed Banks away from the Negro League Monarchs. Banks, who died Friday, […]
Today, services were held for two Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers, two great athletes and two great people, Jimmy Lear and Doug Cunningham. They were also two treasured Ole Miss Rebels, both as athletes and students. A measure of the respect people had for them is that both were elected Colonel Rebel, the equivalent of […]
The great Doug Cunningham, inducted last summer into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, died this morning. He was 69. Cunningham, who played at Ole Miss and in the NFL, was one of the great open field runners in Mississippi football history. Said Deuce McAllister, who was inducted into the MSHoF with Cunningham, “What impressed […]
Hall of Famer Jimmy Lear led Ole Miss to one of the great victories in school history. Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Jimmy Lear, an Ole Miss football All American in 1952, has died. He was 82. Lear quarterbacked the 1952 Rebels to a 21-14 victory over No. 3 ranked Maryland in 1952, which was […]
