People don’t believe me when I tell them this, but it’s true: Mississippi State and Ole Miss once played a football game with the Southeastern Conference Championship at stake. It’s true. It happened nearly 74 years ago in 1940. I have an eyewitness. His name is William Winter and we know him as Governor and […]
SCOOBA — William “Bill” Buckner Memorial Drive will be dedicated Saturday at 11 a.m. before No. 1 ranked East Mississippi Community College’s 2 p.m. homecoming game against Jones Junior College. Alumni, friends and family should gather near the road in front of Sullivan-Windham Field, near Highway 16, where the ceremony will take place. The late Bill Buckner, […]
Brett Favre, who rose from a lightly recruited high school player in tiny Kiln to a three-time National Football League MVP, headlines the 2015 class selected for induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Favre, the leading passer in NFL history. will go into the MSHoF in his first year of eligibility in ceremonies […]
Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State will play a football game at Itta Bena Saturday. That’s what was supposed to happen 30 years ago next month. It did not. What happened was something else entirely, something so grand, so magnificent that 30 years later people still talk about it. As the public address announcer said […]
Mississippi’s Greatest Athletes, a coffee table book featuring stories on every Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer, will be available in October. Written by Rick Cleveland with a foreword by Archie Manning, the book will tell the story of the Magnolia State’s incredible sports history through its heroes. The book is being published by Nautilus Publishing […]
Art Davis scored the first Mississippi State touchdown Jack Cristil ever called, and we’ll get to that, but first… Davis, who will turn 80 in November, lives in retirement in Wilsonville, Ore., a suburb of Portland. Last night, Davis went to sleep thinking about Cristil, his long-time friend and fellow Mississippi Sports Hall of […]
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Jacob Sanford “Jack” Cristil, the beloved former sports broadcaster of six decades of Mississippi State University athletics, died Sunday [Sept. 7] at the age of 88 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo of complications of kidney disease and cancer. What follows is a column I wrote on the 50th […]
The Randy Watkins/Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Junior Golf Championship will be held at Lake Caroline Golf Club in Madison Saturday and Sunday. The overall winner will be awarded the first Mike Taylor Trophy, named for Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Mike Taylor, widely considered Mississippi’s most accomplished amateur golfer and a 10-time winner of […]
