The note came from out of the blue from someone I had never met. Dave Devendorf, a Michigan native who splits his time between Michigan and Florida, had read a piece I wrote about Hall of Famer Johnny Pott, the great golfer, on this website about this time last year. Wrote Devendorf: “Caddied for Johnny […]
(Editor’s note: Elvis Presley, wherever he is, turns 80 today. In honor of Elvis, who was born in Tupelo, and Jack Cristil, who made his home there, we re-publish this column.) Sixty years or so ago, somebody snapped a photograph of two Mississippi icons. The moment is preserved for the ages: Jack Cristil interviewing Elvis […]
Don’t know how any Mississippi State fan would not be happy to see Manny Diaz returning as defensive coordinator. He already has proven himself at State once. Dan Mullen knows what he is getting. Yes, Diaz got fired at Texas after leaving State, but the Longhorn defense wasn’t good when Diaz got there and it […]
Don’t know how many times I have written these words in the last few years concerning the SEC West: the toughest division in the toughest conference in college football. And so, you might ask, how do those words taste? Not so good after: TCU 42, Ole Miss 3. Georgia Tech 49, Mississippi State 34. Notre […]
Callaway superstar Malik Newman scored 90 points in one day of the JPS/Pepsi Holiday Tournament Monday. That’s right: 90, as in ninety. Newman scored 40 in the afternoon semifinals, 50 in the finals at Forest Hill to help Callaway win the championship. Kentucky coach John Calipari watched the finals. At first glance, you might reasonably […]
(Writer’s note: What follows is my syndicated column that was published in many Mississippi newspapers and on many websites this week. At the end, you’ll find notes that didn’t make the syndicated column.) Robert “Tut” Patterson, who turned 93 recently, remembers vividly “finally” getting off the train in Miami. He remembers the palm trees swaying […]
Author’s note: This story is one of many about the record-setting, history-making Hinds Community College baseball team of 1989 and is an excerpt from Diary of a Mad Baseball Coach by Rick Clarke, the head baseball coach at Hinds from 1983-2005. The 1989 season marked the merger of the predominately white Raymond campus and the […]
Jack Vaughn loved to tell the story about when he was officiating Super Bowl XXV at Tampa in 1991. “There were five Mississippi State Bulldogs on the field that day,” Vaughn once told me. “Johnie Cooks played for the Giants. Kent Hull, Kirby Jackson and Donnie Smith played for the Bills. I thought it was […]
