People don’t believe me when I tell them this, but it’s true: Mississippi State and Ole Miss once played a football game with the Southeastern Conference Championship at stake. It’s true. It happened nearly 74 years ago in 1940. I have an eyewitness. His name is William Winter and we know him as Governor and […]
Short takes … About the New Orleans Saints: My mama taught me that if I couldn’t say something nice, I should not say anything. So, that’s that…. About the officiating in the Memphis-Ole Miss game: Sorry, Mama, that was some of the worst I have ever seen. When they called an obvious forward pass — […]
Last week, I gave you State over LSU at Baton Rouge by 3. The ‘Dogs won my 5. Never mind they should have won by 21. At least I got the right team. Of course, I also gave you Missouri 44, Indiana 7, and Indiana won the game. Who knew? For the week, I was […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two… My take on State-LSU: Dak Prescott and Josh Robinson have received mountains of praise for their performances, as well they should. But this should not be lost on anyone: State body-slammed LSU in the manner LSU and Alabama have done to State and Ole Miss so many times […]
Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State will play a football game at Itta Bena Saturday. That’s what was supposed to happen 30 years ago next month. It did not. What happened was something else entirely, something so grand, so magnificent that 30 years later people still talk about it. As the public address announcer said […]
The picks, not the fix, are in. We’re coming off our worst week of the season, 11-4, which puts us at 29-8 on the season. That’s 78.4 percent, which isn’t bad, unless you play in the SEC West and then it’s not nearly good enough. Let’s try again, starting with an interesting game tonight… Auburn […]
My upset pick of the week last week was Toledo over Missouri. It was an upset all right. It really upset me, but not as much as the other game I missed: Atlanta’s victory over the Saints. That one sickened me. Still 10 and 2 isn’t all bad. Neither is 18-4 on the season. Let’s […]
Art Davis scored the first Mississippi State touchdown Jack Cristil ever called, and we’ll get to that, but first… Davis, who will turn 80 in November, lives in retirement in Wilsonville, Ore., a suburb of Portland. Last night, Davis went to sleep thinking about Cristil, his long-time friend and fellow Mississippi Sports Hall of […]
