(At Ole Miss, Deterrian “D.T.” Shackelford has been selected the winner of the 2014 Chucky Mullins Courage Award, becoming the first two-time recipient of the honor. What follows is the column I wrote in 1989 on the 20th anniversary of the injury that eventually caused Chucky’s death.) • RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. — Roy Lee “Chucky” Mullins’ […]
The following is an open letter to Mississippi golf fans from Annandale Golf Club. To The Supporters of the Sanderson Farms Championship: On April 1, 2014, the Board of Century Club Charities voted to change the venue of the Sanderson Farms Championship from Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Mississippi, to the Country Club of Jackson, […]
Every evening when I pull out of the museum parking lot, I see Little Leaguers warming up for the night’s games across Lakeland Avenue. It brings back so many memories — of playing ball myself and then of watching my kids play. It also reminds me of my late friend Willie Morris and his ineffable […]
Now comes the news Tiger Woods will miss The Masters with a back injury. And now — for the first time since Tiger won The Masters by 12 shots as a 21-year-old (17 years ago) — I seriously doubt Tiger will break Jack Nicklaus’s career record of 18 major championships. Tiger has 14. He has […]
PHILADEPHIA — I am here at a sold-out Neshoba County Coliseum where tonight Super Bowl-winning football Tony Dungy is the keynote speaker at a fund-raiser for East Central Community College’s football program. Dungy’s connection to East Central, located in tiny Decatur? Dungy and ECCC second-year coach Ken Karcher are long-time friends who share not only […]
How do you celebrate the first national junior college men’s basketball championship in the long, storied history of the Mississippi junior college system? Jones Junior College coach Jay Ladner, one of the best coaches 99.99 percent of the country never heard of, answered his cell phone Sunday morning and answered that question. “We’re pulled […]
Jones Junior College this past weekend became the first Mississippi two-year school to win the juco Division I National Championship. The Jones Bobcats won five games in five days to claim the title. Back in 1951, Northeast Community College in Booneville played for the national championship at Hutchinson, Kan. The story is worth retelling… Northeast […]
Clearly, Southern Miss deserved to be in the NCAA Tournament. So did Louisiana Tech. Clearly, also, Conference USA has about as much pull with the NCAA Selection committee as I have with the people who pick Nobel Prizes. Zero. None. Nada. Null set. Such is life in the NCAA where the rich get filthy rich […]
