We begin today with an admission: I watch soccer once every four years. So I am not a futball expert or anything close. I recognize a goalkeeper. I am not so sure about a striker and a sweeper. But I do know a faker when I see one, and we’ll get to that. I really […]
So we’re out of the World Cup. Belgium ended the U.S. soccer dream with a 2-1 victory in extra time. It was a splendid effort — great theatre, too. But the Belgians were better. They were more skilled, more polished. If not for our goalkeeper, Tim Howard, it would have been worse, much worse. In […]
(The following column ran in more than two dozen Mississippi newspapers this past week. Many, many readers have written to describe their own memories of — and encounters with — Dizzy Dean. What struck me is how many of the memories dealt as much with family as with Diz. Many wrote of Saturday afternoons spent […]
This worked for Ole Miss yesterday. Let’s see how it does today. OK, Rebel fans, you want the good news or the bad news first? The good? OK, you defeated TCU 6-4 last night to send the Horned Frogs packing from the College World Series. Six runs in this CWS is tantamount to an offensive […]
OK, Rebel fans, you want the good news or bad news? Good? OK, the TCU pitcher you face tonight, Tyler Alexander, is just a freshman and coming off his worst performance of the season in a Super Regional loss to Pepperdine. This will be the biggest stage on which he has ever pitched. The bad? […]
It seems somehow appropriate the biggest Ole Miss hit of this College World Series traveled about 120 feet, barely reaching the outfield grass. This is not a knock on senior John Gatlin’s game-winning, pinch-hit single in Tuesday’s Ole Miss victory over Texas Tech in an elimination game. Gatlin, playing with a heavy heart, fought of […]
Often readers comment on stories and columns on this website long after publication. And, for that reason, I fear a lot of readers, who might be interested, never read the comments. Today, let’s catch up on what readers have said about some past columns and blogs. Well over a year ago, I wrote a column […]
New Orleans resident Archie Manning has been invited to Omaha and the College World Series several times by his LSU friends down in south Louisiana. Manning says he has always told them: thanks, but no thanks. “I was holding out for Ole Miss to make it,” Manning said Tuesday morning. So now the Ole Miss […]
