SCOOBA — Buddy Stephens earlier this week stopped short of saying his 2013 East Mississippi Community College Lions are his best team ever. His players made that statement for him — emphatically — Saturday when the undefeated Lions smashed South Division champion Jones JC 61-24 for the state championship and the right to make history […]
Ray Perkins has coached Alabama, the New York Giants and the Tampa Bay Bucs, but the Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer may never have faced a challenge quite like this one Saturday. That’s when his Jones Junior College Bobcats will take the East Mississippi Lions for the state’s junior college championship. East Mississippi, 10-0, has […]
Funny, the neat things we learn, sometimes years and years after the fact. For instance, I knew Mississippi and Pro Football Hall of Famer Lem Barney played in seven Pro Bowls. I knew he had his number retired by the Detroit Lions. I knew he intercepted the first pass thrown his direction in the NFL […]
We’ve got big games this week, lots of them. And on the heels of back-to-back 9-1 weeks, I’m here to give you the winners once again. I should begin by pointing out that I was 9-0 with college picks last week, missing only on my pick of the Saints over the Jets — that after […]
Seven new inductees — including several nationally and internationally renowned Mississippians — will enter your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in a star-studded Class of 2014. The group includes, in alphabetical order: basketball standout and two-time Olypic gold medalist Ruthie Bolton; college and NFL football standouts Doug Cunningham, Deuce McAllister, and Steve McNair; track and […]
By Rick Cleveland Your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, which operates six days a week with a full-time staff of four, could not function without the help of a dedicated group of volunteers. We always can use more volunteers. Sports knowledge helps, but is not a necessity. We have volunteers ranging from housewives, […]
The St. Louis Cardinals play the Boston Red Sox in Game One of the 2013 World Series tonight at Fenway Park in Boston. Watching, at home in Cleveland, will be 91-year-old Boo Ferriss. We can only dream of the memories tonight’s game will revive for Ferriss who will turn 92 on Dec. 5 and still […]
Ole Miss Rebel Andrew Walters Ritter kicked that clutch 41-yard field goal to shock sixth-ranked LSU 27-24 Saturday night. We’ll get to the field goal later, but first, about that middle name… Andrew Ritter is named for his great grandfather, Carl Walters, the first […]
