This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. Stanford has won 126 NCAA Division I team national championships, the most of all colleges and universities. UCLA has won 118. Among SEC schools, Arkansas has won the most with 47, followed by LSU with 43. No Mississippi team has ever won one […]
This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. Deion Sanders got his first head coaching victory Sunday, and that was just for starters. He also got an icy Gatorade bath. He was presented a trophy on the field, and then his players awarded him the game ball in the locker room […]
This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. Hattiesburg’s old high school gymnasium, long since abandoned, burned down in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Thankfully, the memories live on. And we will get to those. The gym, completed in 1937, was home to the Hattiesburg High Tigers for nearly 50 […]
This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. The name of the song was “Midnight Plane to Houston.” Jimmy Weatherly, the singing and song-writing former Ole Miss quarterback, loved his new tune, but it was going nowhere fast. His agent pitched it to Gladys Knight and the Pips, who had successfully […]
This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. We begin with his name: Sekou. Sekou Smith. “Sekou” is of African origin, from the Fula language. It means “wise” and “educated.” Sekou Smith, who died Tuesday at age 48 of COVID-19, was both wise and educated. He was also generous, thoughtful, loyal, […]
This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. The last time I talked at length to the Mississippi State football legend Art Davis was in September 2014. Art was living in Oregon, but his heart was in Mississippi where his old friend, Jack Cristil, had died. We talked the morning of […]
This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. This was before Julius Harper Davis became Mr. Mississippi State and a standout on some of the greatest Bulldog football teams in history. This was before Davis played for the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, and before the legendary George Halas named […]
This article first appeared on mississippitoday.org and was written by Rick Cleveland. Mississippian Sarah Thomas on Sunday, Feb. 7, will become the first woman to officiate the Super Bowl. She will serve as the down judge, a position she has held in the NFL since 2015, when she became pro football’s first female official. You […]
