Sunday will be Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Day at Annandale for the fourth and final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. Available in the Pearl River Resort (between the clubhouse and ninth green) will be several Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers, including Mississippi State and NBA basketball great Bailey Howell, former Ole Miss Rebel […]
The following column was written two years ago from Annandale Golf Club when what is now the Sanderson Farms Championship was then the Viking Classic. Thing is, you could change a few words and it could run again this week. Don’t know what it is about the PGA golf and Mississippi tournaments, but ducks must […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two while vacationing on Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, where they don’t get Atlanta the Braves on TV every night, which makes my wife a happy camper…. Received this email from Bill Campbell about Hall of Famer Ray Guy: “Recently on a flight to Jackson, I recognized Ray Guy […]
(This is an expanded version of my column that is syndicated in more than 20 Mississippi newspapers.) Recently, 14-year-old Wilson Furr of Jackson won the prestigious Future Masters golf tournament at Dothan, Ala., shooting 3-under par for 54 holes. The following day, Furr played 36 holes, competing against older teens, and was by three shots […]
Marion “Chief” Henley, one of the greatest football coaches most people never heard of, has died at his retirement home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.. Henley who was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, was 79. Henley’s Picayune Carver High School teams won 64 straight football games in the 1960s, which was […]
(Steve McNair, who would be 40 now, died four years ago Thursday. This is the column I wrote on the day of his retirement five years ago. He becomes eligible for induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in the Class of 2014. Covering him his senior year at Alcorn State remains a highlight […]
Scattershooting on a Sunday afternoon, trying to figure out how a baseball team — the Atlanta Braves — can be on track to set a Major League record for strikeouts and still lead its division by 6.5 games . . . Answer: pitching, power and defense. Jim Gallagher, Jr., of Greenwood, shot a final round […]
(Writer’s note: Happily, July 4 will mark the 17th anniversary of the opening of your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Unhappily, it will be fourth anniversary of the death of Steve McNair, one of most incredible athletes these eyes have seen. Ruston Webster, a Madison native and the general manager of the Tennessee […]
