The next five days will be busy ones at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. They also will be interesting. Mostly, they will be informative. In cooperation with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Smithsonian Institution, the MSHOF will host three events to complement the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams.” Events include: • […]
Mississippi will celebrate what thus far has been a remarkable 2016 college baseball season with the C Spire Ferriss Trophy awards luncheon on May 23 and will do so in Boo Ferriss’s hometown of Cleveland. The Cleveland Country Club will host the 2016 Ferriss Trophy luncheon beginning with a meal at 11:30 and the […]
Wright Thompson, award winning senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, will join Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum historian Rick Cleveland Monday for the first of a series of programs in conjunction with The Smithsonian traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams.” The program will begin at 5 p.m. at the MSHOF. Thompson, a Clarksdale native who […]
Your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum exists to extol and preserve the splendid sports history of the Magnolia State. We do so without any tax support for operations for a 24,000 square foot museum that is normally open six days a week, 52 weeks a year. So what better way to raise money […]
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.com. 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 […]
