OK, I know which item I am bidding on in Saturday’s Drawdown of Champions and silent auction at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. It’s this splendid porch glider, made by Hall of Fame football coach Jack Carlisle, who apparently is also a master carpenter. The 48-inch swing is made of treated pine. […]
By Rick Cleveland Over the years, driving into your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s parking lot had become like driving through a mine field. There were potholes, sinkholes and the lines had disappeared like the chalk down the first base line by the sixth of a little league baseball game. We needed help. […]
By David Rosinski East Mississippi Community College SCOOBA – East Mississippi Community College will have the proud distinction of seeing two alumni inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in Jackson this weekend (Aug. 2-3). Bill Buckner, director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and Langston Rogers, special assistant to the athletics director at […]
Your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s most fun event of the calendar year is set for Saturday night at the museum: The Drawdown of Champions (and silent auction) culminates the BancorpSouth Induction Banquet Weekend. The drawdown and auction event is scheduled (6:30-9:30 p.m.) and is sponsored by Puckett Machinery and Young Wells Williams […]
Not often do you answer the phone and the voice on the other end is a former NFL Coach of the Year. That happened to me a few minutes ago. “This is Wayne Fontes,” the retired coach said, “and I wanted to tell you how badly my wife and I want to be at your […]
This is the fifth in a series of six profiles of your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2013 to be inducted Friday night at the Jackson Hilton as part of the BancorpSouth Induction Weekend. Langston Rogers, who has won virtutally every award and honor a sports information director can win, adds another honor […]
George “Boomer” Scott — the great Red Sox slugger from Greenville who famously called his home runs “taters” — died Sunday at his home in Greenville. He was 69. I met and interviewed Scott at his induction ceremonies into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2007 and asked him why he called his home […]
Bobby Crespino, Ole Miss and NFL great and Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer and all-around great gentleman, died this morning following a long illness. What follows is a piece I wrote about Bobby for this website on his 75th birthday, Jan. 11. We will post details of services, which are pending. Funny the way your […]
