This is the fourth of a series on the MSHOF’s Class of 2014… ••• The first time I saw Steve McNair play football he was a 16-year-old junior at Mount Olive High making the State 1A Championship Game his personal playground. He kicked off through the end zone to start the game. He never […]
This is the third in a series about your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014. Dulymus McAllister needed a locker room all his own as a New Orleans Saint. He was the guy every media member wanted to hear from after nearly every Saints game. That’s because he was unfailingly honest and […]
This is the second in a series of columns about your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014. ••• I consider Doug Cunningham a good friend, but I didn’t know him back in 1966 when he broke my 13-year-old heart. This was at Hemingway Stadium in Oxford in the first modern day meeting […]
When I say the Class of 2014 is one of the most accomplished in Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame history, I exaggerate not one bit. As we put together their lockers for our entrance exhibit Thursday, that became more apparent than ever. A few glimpses:
Today begins a series of features about the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014. I’ll begin each piece with a personal remembrance of the inductee. I consider myself most fortunate to have covered all six. We will go in alphabetical order. ••• My first thought when I think of Ruthie Bolton: She’s right […]
Fifty-three years ago, organizers inducted the first class into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Goat Hale, Bruiser Kinard, Dudy Noble and Stanley Robinson formed the inaugural class, and the original plaques hang in the Hall of Fame and Museum today. We will have right at 300 inductees when six more are inducted the night […]
The Country Club of Jackson has a new club champion: Wilson Furr, who will turn 16 Tuesday. Furr, who reached the round of 32 at last year’s USGA Junior Championship, shot rounds of 72, 70 and 67 for a 54-hole total of 7-under-par 209 to win the club title by six shots. During Sunday’s final […]
