Last year, Mississippi State’s Hunter Renfroe won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Bulldogs won an NCAA Regional, a Super Regional and made it all the way to the finals of the College World Series. This year, Auston Bousfield of Ole Miss won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Rebels won […]
So, here’s tonight’s Super Regional pitching matchup in Lafayette where the Ragin Cajuns won the coin flip to be the home team in the deciding game against Ole Miss. • For ULL, senior left-handed pitcher Cody Boutte, who has an imposing 9-0 record as the Cajuns No. 3 starter. He is the epitome of the […]
Sixty nine years ago, one year after D Day, the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Athletics 5-2 at Fenway Park. For rookie Boo Ferriss, it was his eighth straight victory in eight starts to begin his Major League career. It tied an American League record. Ferriss went the distance and scattered 14 hits, which […]
Long-time Columbus coach and educator Jim “Tuffy” Bourland, the MVP of the first Mississippi High School football all-star game, died at the age of 81 last August. In the accompanying photograph, you see Bourland’s son, Jackson radio executive John Bourland, with his dad’s souvenir sweater jacket from that first all-star game played back in 1950. […]
As I sit down to type on this national holiday, my thoughts are with the family of George Robert Hall, spending their first Memorial Day without the man we in Hattiesburg knew simply as Colonel. Hall, who died this past February at the age of 83, was an authentic American hero who never sought — […]
Services have been set for Hall of Famer Bill Buckner. Visitation will be at Wright Ferguson Highland Colony from 5 until 8 p.m. Tuesday. Another visitation will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church of Jackson, followed by the funeral service at noon. ••• Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Bill Buckner, who touched […]
We had a Q. and A. with the legendary Boo Ferriss Monday at the C Spire Ferriss Trophy awards luncheon. It was my idea, which proves only this: Every human being has one good one at some point in life. With apologies to the finalists and winner Austin Bousfield, the Ferriss Q. and A. was […]
Mike Bianco called Auston Bousfield the “total package,” and I’d say that’s about right. Bousfield hit for average, he hit in the No. 2 hole because he handles the bat so well, he hit with pop, he led the best college league in America in hits, he fielded his position without an error for over […]
