The phone rang several times before Boo Ferriss answered this morning. I figured it would, because I knew everybody and his brother would be calling him today after the Boston Red Sox won the World Series last night. “How you doing Coach?” “Oh man, I’m fine today,” Ferriss answered. “Oh man, oh man, after last […]
One of the highlights of my sports writing career was covering the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The highlight of those Games was covering McLain’s Ruthie Bolton, as she led the gold medal-winning U.S. Women’s Basketball team to victory after victory. Ruthie Bolton, pound for pound, is the toughest competitor I have seen. Basketball coaches talk […]
Twenty-four years ago today, Roy Lee “Chucky” Mullins slammed into Vanderbilt’s Brad Gaines, shattering four vertebrae and causing injuries that eventually took his life on May 6, 1991. Here is what I wrote four years ago on the 20th anniversary of his injury. • RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. — Roy Lee “Chucky” Mullins’ neatly kept grave resides […]
If ever I thought a defensive lineman might win the Heisman Trophy, this was the season. South Carolina’s Jadveon Clowney entered 2013 as one of the favorites. The folks at ESPN, who steer Heisman races the way a jockey steers a racehorse, were all over him, spitting out accolades and showing that one x-rated film […]
This past Monday I was honored to speak about Willie Heidelburg, my friend and a man I have long admired, at his funeral. What follows are bits and pieces from that eulogy… Willie Heidelburg was humble. He was caring. He was thoughtful. He was loyal. He loved young people and cared deeply about those he […]
Tim Kalich, editor of The Greenwood Commonwealth, attended the Tribute to Kent Hull Banquet last month and recently wrote this piece for Leflore Illustrated. Kalich graciously allows msfame.liquidcreative.net to reprint it. By Tim Kalich Leflore Illustrated Rick Cleveland says there must be “something magical” in the soil to explain why four of the greatest gentlemen […]
Many around the NFL expressed shock that the St. Louis Rams would approach Brett Favre about coming out of retirement. I am not, and here are my reasons: • No. 1, the Rams are desperate. • No. 2, Jeff Fisher, the Rams coach, knows Favre’s agent well through his long association with another of Bus […]
Boo Ferriss has no prediction on this World Series except that, “I know I’ll be pulling for the Red Sox.” In fact, Ferriss ate a lunch today that included a cup of clam chowder “in honor of New England.” Ferriss, who shutout the Cardinals in Game Three of the 1946 World Series, believes it is […]
