Mississippi State faces a difficult test Thursday night when the Big Blue Kentucky Wildcats come to Starkville. The Wildcats have won eight national championships. They have the highest winning percentage in NCAA history at 76.2. They sign the nation’s top recruiting class nearly every year. They have dominated the SEC for years… Oh wait, what’s […]
The St. Louis Cardinals play the Boston Red Sox in Game One of the 2013 World Series tonight at Fenway Park in Boston. Watching, at home in Cleveland, will be 91-year-old Boo Ferriss. We can only dream of the memories tonight’s game will revive for Ferriss who will turn 92 on Dec. 5 and still […]
Ole Miss Rebel Andrew Walters Ritter kicked that clutch 41-yard field goal to shock sixth-ranked LSU 27-24 Saturday night. We’ll get to the field goal later, but first, about that middle name… Andrew Ritter is named for his great grandfather, Carl Walters, the first […]
Willie Heidelburg, a football pioneer, died earlier this week at the age of 63. Services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at Christ United Methodist where a huge sanctuary might possibly hold all those who will want to pay their respects to a kind, unassuming gentleman who played a huge role in Mississippi […]
When the 1959 Rebels are celebrated tonight at the Renasant Bank Toast to the 1959 Rebels 53-year-old Rose Hopper of Madison will be one of those toasting. “How could I not?” Rose Hopper said this morning when she purchased her tickets. When you read her story you will understand. Rose Hopper was born in Meridian […]
We will celebrate the greatest team in Mississippi football history Thursday night at the Renasant Bank Toast to the 1959 Ole Miss Rebels. As this is written, 26 of those Rebels will attend. Seven team members are no longer with us, and they will be remembered fondly during the program. That number includes the late, […]
Willie Heidelburg, a tiny, kind, mild-mannered man who never sought the spotlight but flitted into it nonetheless in October 1970, has died. Heidelburg, an assistant coach at Belhaven, was the only African American on the field on Oct. 17, 1970, when he scored two touchdowns to help Southern Miss defeat fourth-ranked Ole Miss 30-14 in […]
It was bound to happen and it did. I was cruising along, picking winners as if I had a crystal ball hidden under my desk. I was picking winners like Bear Bryant and John Vaught used to win. Consistently. I was the cock of the walk. Then, as they say — “on any given Saturday” […]
