The 2016 C Spire Ferriss Trophy will be awarded May 23 at a luncheon at the Cleveland Country Club. The Ferriss Trophy, named for Mississippi and Major League baseball legend Boo Ferriss, goes annually to the state’s most outstanding college baseball player. Unlike the other C Spire most outstanding player awards, the media is not […]
The question was asked this past weekend: Is this the best college baseball season in Mississippi history? It was a good weekend to ask it: Ole Miss swept Auburn. Mississippi State took two of three at LSU. Southern Miss took two of three one-run games from Rice. All three Mississippi teams are nationally ranked. All […]
This was September, 1979. Mississippi State’s football team was playing Maryland at College Park, Md. The late, great Orley Hood and I covered the game for the Jackson newspapers. We spent all day Friday and Saturday morning touring our nation’s capital. Orley was — and I am — a history buff. We probably set a […]
The next five days will be busy ones at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. They also will be interesting. Mostly, they will be informative. In cooperation with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Smithsonian Institution, the MSHOF will host three events to complement the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit “Hometown Teams.” Events include: • […]
Former Ole Miss football great Billy Mustin, who later became Director of the Ole Miss Loyalty Foundation, died earlier this week at 87. A graveside service will be held today at 2 p.m. at Oxford Memorial Cemetery. Mustin, who played for Coach John Vaught and then served him as an assistant coach, was one Vaught’s […]
The 2016 Masters likely will be remembered as the one that washed away from 22-year-old Jordan Spieth when two of his shots landed in a watery grave known as Rae’s Creek. But we should not forget that 29-year-old Englishman Danny Willett won with a masterful round of 67 on Sunday. And we should not forget […]
Archie Manning was a 10-year veteran with the New Orleans Saints when Hokie Gajan came to the team as a rookie, a 10th round draft pick out of LSU. Nobody around here needs a primer on the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry. “Hoke came to camp and he wore these old, beat-up white football shoes that had […]
In basketball, we call it “garbage time.” One team has an insurmountable lead on the other with the clock winding down. The winning coach clears his bench, giving little-used “scrubs” a chance to play. Garbage time? Not for McKie Edmondson, now a 40-year-old Madison businessman. Edmondson, a high school standout at Jackson Academy, was […]
