Undefeated Millsaps College was down 21-10 with 2 minutes, 47 seconds remaining this past Saturday, and that’s not all. Centre College had just taken over possession of the football. And that’s not all. Millsaps, which had scored only 10 points all afternoon, was 11 points down with only two timeouts remaining. Final score: Millsaps […]
The New Orleans Saints will induct former three players into their first official Ring of Honor tonight at halftime of the Cowboys-Saints game at the Superdome. They got it right: Archie Manning, Rickey Jackson and Willie Roaf. I’ve watched the Saints from the beginning. Those should be the first three. Such stalwarts as Deuce McAllister, […]
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, […]
