Thursday night’s “Farm Bureau Salutes the Final Four Bulldogs” — long a sellout — will be a available to folks who don’t have a ticket. The event, which celebrates Mississippi’s only Final Four men’s basketball team, will be live streamed over msfame.liquidcreative.net. Here is the link: https://livestream.com/shorterproductions/events/5017289 The festivities at the MSHOF museum begin with […]
The Sigma Nu Charity Bowl, which began in 1990 to honor and raise money for fallen Ole Miss football player Chucky Mullins, will be played for the 27th time Thursday night at the Oxford-Lafayette Sportsplex. Mullins was injured in the 1989 Ole Miss homecoming game with Vanderbilt when he tackled Commodore fullback Brad Gaines. Mullins […]
This was 1970 in Hattiesburg, where, until then, Hattiesburg High had fielded all-white basketball teams and cross-town Rowan had been all-black. Both had been traditional winners through the years but neither had won a state championship. That was about to change. At Rowan, there was a tall, lean basketball marvel, Eugene Short. He was […]
The Smithsonian Institution is coming to Mississippi. The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, in partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council, will showcase “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America.” The Smithsonian traveling exhibit will begin a six-week run at the Jackson museum on March 18. “Hometown Teams” captures the stories that unfold on the […]
Victoria Vivians of Mississippi State and Stefon Moody of Ole Miss are the repeat winners of the C Spire Gillom and Howell trophies, respectively. The awards were presented Monday at a luncheon at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, which co-sponsors the awards with C Spire. Moody, a senior, led the Southeastern Conference […]
Ole Miss senior guard Stefan Moody and Mississippi State sophomore guard Victoria Vivians lead a list of six finalists for the 2016 C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophies, which annually honors the state’s top male and female college basketball players. Moody, the SEC’s leading scorer at 22.8 points per game and the 2015 C Spire […]
The 2016 inductees into the NJCAA Men’s Golf Coaches Association were this week. This year’s class is headlined by the first female member in former Meridian (Miss.) golfer and coach Lou Weddington Hart. Lou Weddington Hart Golfer/Coach – Meridian (MS) Arriving at Meridian in 1970 – two years prior to the enactment of Title IX […]
In all, 304 basketball teams have participated in the NCAA Final Four that began in 1939. Only one of those 304 has been from Mississippi: The 1995-96 Mississippi State Bulldogs. Those Final Four Bulldogs will be celebrated March 31, two days before this year’s Final Four, at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and […]
