Seventy-two-year-old Doug Hutton, one of the greatest all-around athletes in Mississippi history, stepped to the first tee of beautiful Live Oaks Golf Club Thursday morning. The hole measures 285 yards from the senior tees and Hutton smashed his drive all the way to the front fringe of the green. Next up, 74-year-old Willie Richardson, another […]
Answers to questions people are asking about Donnie Tyndall’s leaving USM for Rocky Top… Q. For Tennessee, good hire? A. Great hire. Tyndall can win there and he will click with their fan base. It won’t be overnight, but he’ll win and Tennessee fans will love him. Q. I feel betrayed. D.T. said […]
Happy 97th birthday today to our oldest living Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer, Hunter George Weddington of Meridian. Weddington, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1983, won three State Amateur golf championships, the first in 1939 and the last in 1948, nearly 66 years ago. He first played in the State Am in 1936. […]
(This was my column in The Clarion-Ledger, the day after Juli Inkster won the U.S. Open at Old Waverly in 1999.) WEST POINT – Not another working mother in these United States swings a golf club like record-setting U.S. Women’s Open champion Juli Inkster. But every working mother alive can identify with what Inkster goes […]
(What follows is my syndicated column from last week. Jim Kelly has been open about the challenges he faces with cancer. Last week, he completed his first round of chemotherapy and radiation. He will have two more rounds of chemo in the next six weeks, along with daily radiation treatments. Kelly’s doctor has described his […]
There’s an old baseball adage that goes something like this: Every time you go to the ballpark, there’s always a chance you’ll see something you’ve never seen before. At Swayze Field in Oxford last Friday night, more than 9,000 folks — or at least those who hung around until the 13th inning — saw something […]
Every university needs fans such as Ken Shearer. Ken, a former football manager at Southern Miss, has become the school’s unofficial sports historian. Today, he writes about the death of Bobby Holmes, one of USM’s all-time football greats. By Ken Shearer Robert Harold “Bobby” Holmes, age 85, died Sunday, April 6, in Biloxi. Bobby Holmes […]
We are in the 77th year of so-called March Madness, which means we are, in Super Bowl terms, about to watch Final Four LXXVII. Do the math and you know that 304 (CCC) teams have taken part in the Final Four — only one (I) from Mississippi. In 1996, Richard Williams, a former volunteer junior […]
