Leo Durocher once said, “Nice guys finish last.” Wrong. Billy Chadwick, who today announced his retirement as tennis coach at Ole Miss, is positive proof that Leo the Lip was dead wrong. Ole Miss did finish last in the SEC in tennis, but that was the year before Chadwick took the job. Since then, Chadwick, […]
Little more than eight years ago, Jackson State was in the market for a football coach. I wrote that JSU should go back in its storied football past to move forward with its uncertain future. I suggested JSU could do a lot worse than Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Harold Jackson. Jackson, then was 60 […]
Mississippi sports history will be made in Jackson Saturday with the running of the seventh Mississippi Blues Marathon. The marathon, sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi, will become the first sporting event in Mississippi in which competitors will represent every state in the union. That’s right: Runners from all 50 of […]
So Starkville resident Jack Vaughn, the ex-NFL official who worked three Super Bowls as a field judge, visited the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum today. I thought I knew a whole lot about Jack, but I didn’t know all. I knew Jack was from Ponchatoula, La., but I didn’t know that the legendary […]
So, I come back to the museum this afternoon from a legislative reception and find Hall of Famer Jack Carlisle working as a volunteer at the ticket counter. That’s always a treat. So Jack starts telling stories and naturally I start listening. I’d be a fool not to. And Jack takes me back to 1967 […]
So, the New Orleans Saints have to win four straight games away from home to win the Super Bowl. It is possible. It is not likely. The first step is do-able, that is, beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Philly tonight. It will be cold, yes. The headline in today’s Philadelphia newspaper: “Deep freeze follows dangerous […]
This new generation of New Orleans Saints fans is spoiled. They don’t know how good they’ve got it. They get upset if Drew Brees throws an interception. They become apoplectic if the Saints lose a game. They are spoiled, period. Since Brees and Sean Payton joined the band in 2006, the Saints had won 79 […]
Your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum has a holiday promotion that should interest kids and athletes of all ages. Beginning Saturday and for the next week (Dec. 28-Jan.4), any individual wearing the jersey or t-shirt of his or her favorite sports team will be admitted for $3. This is a chance to […]
