(This was last week’s column, which is syndicated across the state to more than 20 Mississippi newspapers. You really should hear Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Robert Khayat tell the story.) Robert Khayat, a standout guard and placekicker, was accustomed to lining up nose-to- nose, eyes-to-eyes, against the best players in the Southeastern Conference. And […]
Years ago, we ran a reader poll for The Clarion-Ledger. We asked which team was Mississippi’s favorite Major League baseball team. The was back when the newspaper really went statewide and it was before the Internet went widespread, meaning readers had to care enough to put a stamp on an envelope and mail in their […]
Leave it to Cooper Manning, the funniest human not doing standup for a living, for the best one-liner on the new Direct TV music video featuring his daddy and two younger brothers. “I was pretty amazed that my Dad wrote that song,” Coop deadpanned. “I mean, for a guy who only listens to Conway Twitty […]
It was a rainy day 47 years ago. I was just a kid. My dad, Ace, and I were driving around Hattiesburg and I told him I had decided, at 13, I wanted to be a sports writer. Ace just kept on driving, never changed expression and didn’t say anything. A few minutes […]
Sixteen months into my job as director of your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, one certainty has become clear: There’s a poignant story behind every Hall of Famer. Take the Class of 2013, inducted Friday night at the Jackson Hilton on the first bight of BancorpSouth Induction Weekend. There were six inductees, […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two… I have been amazed by the reactions to The Clarion-Ledger picking up my syndicated column for its online (Wednesday) and print (Sunday) editions. Apparently, many readers mistakenly believe I have gone back to work for the CL. Couldn’t be further from the truth. The Mississippi Press Association has […]
We will have a crowd of more than 550 at the Jackson Hilton tonight for the BancorpSouth Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet. Two folks who would have been with us will not be. Hall of Famers Bobby Crespino and George “Boomer” Scott — two men with Greenville backgrounds — died earlier this week. […]
Stephen Hawkins works for the Associated Press in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, covering the Cowboys, the Mavericks, the Rangers and a lot more. He got his start as a student intern under Langston Rogers. He has not forgotten. I still remember sitting in Langston Rogers’ office on the Ole Miss campus on a January day […]
