The morning blog: We’ve got a busy day at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.This will be short — and you can decide if it is sweet. Not quite a month into football season I have a bone to pick with all football coaches who line up for fourth down and inches to […]
The morning blog: It wasn’t long ago Nick Saban asked the question (and I paraphrase): Is this what we want college football to be? Saban mostly was talking about no-huddle, spread-the-field offenses vs. the more physical, smash-mouth football so many of us have known forever. Me? I really believe there can be a healthy mix […]
They resurfaced and painted the floor of Bert Jenkins Gymnasium in Gulfport this past summer, adding Jenkins’ signature to the surface. Nothing could be more appropriate. Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Bert Jenkins, who died at age 90 late Wednesday, put his signature on Gulfport and Mississippi basketball. He was a marvelous gentleman, a truly […]
Tonight, we’ll celebrate a victory won 35 years ago: State 6, Alabama 3. In my half century of covering Mississippi sports, the game remains one of the most poignant happenings. Recently I’ve had some folks ask: Why celebrate a game played 35 years ago? To which the answer is: Maybe you just had to be […]
The morning blog: • Folks in Louisiana, including media, already talk and write about the possibility of the Saints drafting Leonard Fournette. Just my opinion: Robert Nkemdiche would cure more ills. So would Laremy Tunsil for that matter. I love Leonard Fournette, but the Saints already have $17 million in guaranteed money tied up in […]
We’ve discussed the Ole Miss Rebels’ landmark victory over Alabama. Now then, other observations from the weekend… • Watched Seattle-Green Bay Sunday night after watching the Saints and Bucs wage their pillow right earlier in the day. The night game vs. the afternoon game evoked this revelation: “Ah, so this is what it is supposed […]
So, I awakened this morning and immediately checked the newspaper, which I mostly read on my telephone, and the score was still the same: Ole Miss 43, Alabama 37 (at Tuscaloosa). I don’t know what would have seemed more strange 20 years ago: that score or mostly reading the newspaper on my phone. So it […]
You couldn’t make this up… The date was Oct. 31, 1980, and into the wee and then not-so-wee hours of Nov. 1, same year. We’re talking nearly 35 years, so I am thinking the statute of limitations is up. Besides, I don’t work for The Clarion-Ledger any more. They can’t fire me. No. 1-ranked Alabama […]
