(This is the third of a series on your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s Class of 2013.) Gerald Glass became one of the greatest basketball players in the history of two Mississippi universities, Delta State and then Ole Miss. He also became a first round NBA draft pick and played professionally both in […]
(This is the second of a series about the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2013. Today: Jimmie Giles.) Little known fact: Jimmie Giles, one of the greatest tight ends in pro football history, didn’t play college football at Alcorn State until he was a senior. His first love was baseball. There’s a good reason for […]
Over the next six days, we will feature the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2013 inductees in alphabetical order. First: Bill Buckner. Bill Buckner, for 25 years now, has headed Mississippi’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Under his leadership, FCA has grown exponentially. Buckner had no staff to begin with. He now has 21 […]
Walter Payton would have turned 59 today, nearly 14 years after his death. We lost his sweet and graceful mother, Alyne, earlier this year. My hope is that they have had a most splendid reunion. Walter Payton was, without question, the most complete football player I ever witnessed. This is the column I wrote in […]
It was one of those times you wish you hadn’t been watching, but I was, and I had just tweeted about what a masterful game Tim Hudson was pitching for the Braves. When he’s on, he’s like watching an artist at work. He had shutout going in the eighth. He was painting the corners, changing […]
(From the Sept. 11, 2009 Clarion-Ledger: Did you know the first office of the goliath that is now the SEC was right here in downtown Jackson?) You write sports in this state for more than four decades, you think you know a little something about the history and heritage of the games Mississippians play. Then […]
You may have seen the news in The Clarion-Ledger today that told of the death of Kenneth Andrews, the newspaper’s former publisher and a wonderful gentleman. Ken was 83 when he died of pancreatic cancer, and he had lived a full and productive life. Andrews came to Jackson in 1982 when Gannett bought both Jackson […]
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Lou Weddington Hart has won the state’s women’s amateur golf championship nine times. Her daddy, Hunter George Weddington, the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame, won the men’s amateur championship three times. So Lou Hart is well-versed on Mississippi golf history. That’s what makes this first statement from […]
