[tentblogger-vimeo 65086471] The New York Jets stunned the football world on Jan. 12, 1969, defeating the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, once and for all proving that the AFL teams, which merged with the NFL, were not inferior. The Jets, behind Joe Namath and Misissippi Sports Hall of Famer Larry Grantham, dominated the […]
Rusty Hampton announced today he is leaving The Clarion-Ledger sports department to work for the engineering firm of Neel-Schaffer. This is really good news for Neel-Schaffer. It is awful news for the state’s largest newspaper, and even worse news for readers who get their sports news from the Ledger and its website. I’ll get right […]
Shaw native Martha Anne Ferriss Parker, a champion tennis player and the younger sister of Mississippi baseball legend Boo Ferriss, has died at the age of 86. Martha Anne Ferriss Parker is survived by her husband, long-time college football coach and NFL scout Henry Lee Parker, who once coached at Mississippi State. They had […]
This will surprise nobody who knows Hall of Famer Jack Carlisle. At 82, he’s back on the football field doing what he does best. Coaching. “He’s a miracle worker,” says Mississippi College head coach Norman Joseph. “Use that as your headline. Jack Carlisle is a miracle worker.” Carlisle, who was out of coaching for the […]
(My neighbor, 7-year-old Ren Partridge plays his first game of little boys baseball this afternoon. I can’t wait. Little League baseball remains one of the grandest experiences I have had on this planet. I relived it again with my son and daughter. I am reminded at this time of my late friend Willie Morris’s prayer […]
(Writer’s note: I wrote this column for The Clarion-Ledger in 2004. It is about a coach nicknamed War Daddy. His real name was Harold T. White. Hal White, of Hal and Mal’s fame, was Harold T. White, Jr. Hal’s son, Taylor, is Harold T. White III.) Eddie Khayat, at his Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame […]
Long before he became a restauranteur, raconteur and half the namesake for Jackson’s famous Hal and Mal’s, Hal White was a quarterback. And a safety. And a kicker. And a punter. And the captain. “He was just about all I had,” says Jim Drewry, whose first year as head coach at Booneville High was Hal […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two. . . Today’s offering begins in praise of Jonathan Mills, the rugged heart and soul of the Southern Miss basketball team that will play BYU Wednesday night in the quarterfinals of the NIT Tournament at Hattiesburg. A Chicago native, Mills was listed initially at USM as a 6-foot-8 […]
