Two College Football Hall of Famers, Wesley Walls and Sean Brewer, and Jackie Sherrill, the winningest football coach in Mississippi State history, are among the selections for the Class of 2016 of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. The MSHOF’s Class of 2016 also will include Alcorn State and NBA basketball great Larry Smith, Southern […]
When lifelong Chicago Cubs fan Mary Beth Cannon was a teen, she wrote a letterto Don and Carolyn offering to baby sit their boys, Keith and Kevin. She got the job. That was more than four decades ago. Cannon, now 57 and living in South Bend, Ind., drove back to Chicago this past weekend to […]
File this one under: PLEASE, PARDON OUR PROGRESS. We have lots of it to report at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The coming week — specifically August 24-28 — the museum will be closed while we re-carpet the main arena. We will reopen for visitors on Saturday, August 29, a little […]
By Chuck Abadie POPLARVILLE – In reading “The Spirit of the Pearl: The Life, Legend and Legacy of T.D. ‘Dobie’ Holden,” one finds that it is possible for a football coach to win the respect of his players and lead them to eight state championships and one national championship without compromising faith and family. […]
(On Sept. 23, your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will host a night to remember celebrating one of the most memorable football games in Magnolia State history. We will observe the 35th anniversary of State 6, Alabama 3. Why celebrate a football game 35 years later? Perhaps you had to be there. I […]
Thirty-five years later, the remarkable score remains: State 6, Bama 3. On Nov. 1, 1980, Mississippi State stunned the football world, knocking off No 1 ranked Alabama and Bear Bryant in Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. On Sept. 23, the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate one of the most memorable events in […]
What is it about small-town Mississippi? Last night, Amory’s Mitch Moreland hit two home runs for the Texas Rangers and now has 12 for the season. He is hitting .300. In Cincinnati, Taylorsville’s Billy Hamilton swiped four more bases and now has 40. In the same game, Brian Dozier of Fulton launched his 16th home […]
West Point native George Bryan, who brought the 1999 U.S. Women’s Open golf championship to the nationally renowned golf course he built in his hometown, will receive the Rube Award for his lifetime of contributions to Mississippi sports. The Rube Award is named in honor of the late Michael Rubenstein, long-time TV sportscaster and executive […]
