The ritual that is Mississippi high school football begins again this week. It begins in the heat and humidity of August and extends to the usually chilly, first weekend in December. It is a roller-coaster of passion and pageantry that unites communities and has produced an inordinate share of the game’s greatest players. What makes […]
(On Sept. 23, your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will host a night to remember celebrating one of the most memorable football games in Magnolia State history. We will observe the 35th anniversary of State 6, Alabama 3. Why celebrate a football game 35 years later? Perhaps you had to be there. I […]
Frank Gifford, the All-Pro running back, was before my time. I don’t remember much, at all, about Gifford, No. 16 of the New York Giants. I well remember Gifford, the play-by-play man for Monday night football, more for his peace-keeping between Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Meredith than for his professionally concise accounts of the […]
Mike Dennis came along before high school football recruits were judged by stars. But had stars applied back in 1961, Dennis might have had six. Dennis, who will be inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Saturday night, was a speedy, bruising running back at Murrah High under Hall of Fame coach Jack Carlisle. He […]
Carla Lowry, nicknamed Shorty, loved basketball at a time when organized basketball didn’t necessarily love young girls back. As a young girl in Forest in the 1940s, she loved to shoot the basketball and she was especially proficient at shooting. That was because she practiced and practiced and practiced and then practiced some more. She […]
The Class of 2015, from left to right: Steve Knight, Brett Favre, Gwen White, Clarence Weatherspoon, Fred McAfee, Mike Dennis. Already assured of the largest crowd in history, the BancorpSouth Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet moves to the Jackson Convention Complex this Saturday night. Tickets remain on sale for the event at the […]
Sixteen years after the fact, it still seems hard to believe West Point’s George Bryan pulled off what he pulled off. Bryan, in June of 1999, brought the U.S. Women’s Open Championship to Old Waverly, the lovely golf course he built outside of his hometown. Covered by media from all over the planet, the USGA […]
What is it about small-town Mississippi? Last night, Amory’s Mitch Moreland hit two home runs for the Texas Rangers and now has 12 for the season. He is hitting .300. In Cincinnati, Taylorsville’s Billy Hamilton swiped four more bases and now has 40. In the same game, Brian Dozier of Fulton launched his 16th home […]
