Tickets are on sale for the 11th annual C Spire Ferriss Trophy luncheon, which will be held Monday, May 19, at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum beginning at 11:30. The luncheon is an annual celebration of the best of college baseball in Mississippi. Last year’s winner Hunter Renfroe then led Mississippi State […]
You could call him the greatest basketball player in Mississippi State history. You could call him an international basketball Hall of Famer and a Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer, as well. Now, you also can call the great Bailey Howell a street. That’s right. What was formerly Coliseum Drive, the east-west street adjacent to Humphrey […]
Seventy-two-year-old Doug Hutton, one of the greatest all-around athletes in Mississippi history, stepped to the first tee of beautiful Live Oaks Golf Club Thursday morning. The hole measures 285 yards from the senior tees and Hutton smashed his drive all the way to the front fringe of the green. Next up, 74-year-old Willie Richardson, another […]
Happy 97th birthday today to our oldest living Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer, Hunter George Weddington of Meridian. Weddington, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1983, won three State Amateur golf championships, the first in 1939 and the last in 1948, nearly 66 years ago. He first played in the State Am in 1936. […]
WEST POINT – Hall of Famer and 31-time LPGA Tour winner Juli Inkster will return to Old Waverly Golf Club this fall for the Legends Tour’s 2014 ISPS Handa Cup. Inkster won the 1999 U.S. Women’s Open at Old Waverly for one of her seven major championship titles. The ninth ISPS Handa Cup will be […]
(What follows is my syndicated column from last week. Jim Kelly has been open about the challenges he faces with cancer. Last week, he completed his first round of chemotherapy and radiation. He will have two more rounds of chemo in the next six weeks, along with daily radiation treatments. Kelly’s doctor has described his […]
The 2014 Sanderson Farms Championship will move to the Country Club of Jackson, tournament officials have announced. The move from Annandale in Madison, the tournament’s 20-year home, to the northeast Jackson club was made to enhance the tournament’s ability to raise money for Friends of Children’s Hospital, tournament officials announced. The move requires approval from […]
Now comes the news Tiger Woods will miss The Masters with a back injury. And now — for the first time since Tiger won The Masters by 12 shots as a 21-year-old (17 years ago) — I seriously doubt Tiger will break Jack Nicklaus’s career record of 18 major championships. Tiger has 14. He has […]
