Many of you are no doubt familiar with a website called The Onion, which produces satirical, often hilarious, “news” stories. I have no problem with The Onion. It sometimes makes me laugh. Our problem these days is differentiating between The Onion and the countless news outlets, which are serving up ever-increasing volumes of blather […]
Wagner Definitely Deserving By Bill Blackwell Having spent 33 years of my life working in professional baseball, I have been around a fair share of Hall of Famers. I have interviewed Tony LaRussa, called games with Jack Buck, met with Brooks Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Jim Palmer, Bobby Cox and had Frank Thomas spend a […]
Putting a Wrap on 2015 By Bill Blackwell 2015 has been a very good year here at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. We inducted a 6 person class of Hall of Fame worthy coaches and players that bring our total of inductees to 286 members. Our next class has already been […]
The Ole Miss Rebels gave us one last Tad Pad memory Tuesday with an overtime victory over Troy before a loud, packed house. On Jan. 7, Alabama comes to town and the Rebels move to the long-awaited Pavilion at Ole Miss. It will be like trading in a ’66 Dodge Dart for a 2016 Mercedes. Few […]
The Ole Miss Rebels played their first basketball game back in 1909. The opponent: Those pesky Memphis Physicians. Details are scant. There was no indoor court so the game was played outside at a site “behind The Lyceum.” Ole Miss led 7-6 at half, but the Physicians stormed from behind to win 12-11. Legend has […]
We have experienced another rewarding year at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, where the Magnolia State’s sports legends live forever. While similar hall of fame museums across the country have closed doors or reduced hours of operation, the MSHOF thrives. In 2015, we have inducted six new Hall of Famers and we […]
The great Harper Davis, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class of 1980, turns 90 years old today (Dec. 11, 2015). He is one of the splendid gentlemen of Mississippi sports. This is from Mississippi’s Greatest Athletes, now in its second printing and available at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum and fine bookstores […]
(Today would have been the great Jack Cristil’s 90th birthday. This was the column I wrote on the 50th anniversary of his broadcasting Mississippi State sporting events. Jack died Sept. 14, 2014.) THE little boy was 6 years old when his mother and father, Jewish immigrants from Russia and Latvia, bought the family’s first radio. […]
