Millsaps College has hired Josh Brooks to serve as the new director of athletics. Brooks is joining the Majors from his position as associate athletic director at the University of Georgia, where he has worked since 2008. Brooks is expected to begin his new role on July 7. Tim Wise, who has held joint duties […]
OK, Rebel fans, you want the good news or bad news? Good? OK, the TCU pitcher you face tonight, Tyler Alexander, is just a freshman and coming off his worst performance of the season in a Super Regional loss to Pepperdine. This will be the biggest stage on which he has ever pitched. The bad? […]
Often readers comment on stories and columns on this website long after publication. And, for that reason, I fear a lot of readers, who might be interested, never read the comments. Today, let’s catch up on what readers have said about some past columns and blogs. Well over a year ago, I wrote a column […]
New Orleans resident Archie Manning has been invited to Omaha and the College World Series several times by his LSU friends down in south Louisiana. Manning says he has always told them: thanks, but no thanks. “I was holding out for Ole Miss to make it,” Manning said Tuesday morning. So now the Ole Miss […]
Last year, Mississippi State’s Hunter Renfroe won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Bulldogs won an NCAA Regional, a Super Regional and made it all the way to the finals of the College World Series. This year, Auston Bousfield of Ole Miss won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Rebels won […]
Sixty nine years ago, one year after D Day, the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Athletics 5-2 at Fenway Park. For rookie Boo Ferriss, it was his eighth straight victory in eight starts to begin his Major League career. It tied an American League record. Ferriss went the distance and scattered 14 hits, which […]
Jackson, Miss.— A whole wide world of wonder awaits visitors to the LeFleur Museum District! Saturday, July 5 the LeFleur Museum District members, the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum, the Mississippi Children’s Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, will be hosting a joint event, “Summertime, […]
The Farm Bureau Watermelon Classic, a Mississippi holiday tradition and one of the state’s largest road races, will take place again on July 4. The 5K run/walk (7:30 a.m.) begins and ends at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Events also include a one-mile wellness runs for all ages and a tot trot […]
