This was last week’s column syndicated through the Mississippi Press Association (thank-you, MPA and subscribing newspapers). Since it was written, Ray Perkins has had shoulder surgery (Tuesday), coached against East Central with his arm in a sling (Thursday), won 47-0, and moved to No. 3 in the national rankings. ELLISVILLE ― Sun-burned, 71-year-old Ray Perkins […]
Since Southern Miss last won a football game… … 650 days have passed. … we have celebrated Christmas twice. … USM has lost 16 consecutive football games. ….USM has had three presidents, three athletic directors, two football coaches and been nearly blown away by one EF4 multiple-vortex wedge tornado (the king daddy of tornadoes). … […]
Four years ago, the Jackson Touchdown Club celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the famous 1959 Ole Miss-LSU game. The late, great Paul Dietzel and Billy Cannon were on hand. So were nine 1959 Ole Miss Rebels. This was my column from that night. Your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate the 1959 […]
Dan Van Cleve, a Jackson doctor who scored more runs than any player in the storied history of Mississippi State baseball, died today. He was 51. I did not know Dan well, but remember him as as an outstanding centerfielder, who set the table for Will Clark, Rafael Palmeiro and Bobby Thigpen when he played […]
One of the greatest football teams in college football history will be celebrated Oct. 17 at the Renasant Bank Toast to the 1959 Ole Miss Rebels at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The 1959 Rebels outscored opponents 350-21 in achieving a 10-1 record, the lone loss coming 7-3 to LSU — a […]
They have lost 16 straight games, the nation’s longest losing streak. They have lost four this year by a combined score of 162-38. They gave 60 points last Saturday night. These are not your daddy’s Southern Miss Golden Eagles. And yet when Vegas oddsmakers put out the pointspreads on this week’s games, there was Southern […]
(Bill McLellan, athletic director at Southern Miss from 1986-1999, died today in Greenville, S.C. Athletic director at Clemson before his USM stint, McLellan was inducted into the USM Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. This is the column I wrote 14 years ago upon his retirement from USM.) He can be gruff. He hates […]
He was born and raised in Canton, Mississippi, but L.C. Greenwood never was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame at Canton, Ohio. Such a shame. Such an injustice. Greenwood, a Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer, died in Pittsburgh Sunday, reportedly of kidney failure. He was one of the greatest defensive ends in pro […]
