Today begins a series of features about the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014. I’ll begin each piece with a personal remembrance of the inductee. I consider myself most fortunate to have covered all six. We will go in alphabetical order. ••• My first thought when I think of Ruthie Bolton: She’s right […]
If you are a New Orleans Saints fan, today is a good day. If you are Jimmy Graham, it ain’t a bad day either. Graham announced this morning that he had agreed to terms on a four-year, $40 million contract that sets him up for life and sets the Saints up to make another Super […]
Fifty-three years ago, organizers inducted the first class into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Goat Hale, Bruiser Kinard, Dudy Noble and Stanley Robinson formed the inaugural class, and the original plaques hang in the Hall of Fame and Museum today. We will have right at 300 inductees when six more are inducted the night […]
The Country Club of Jackson has a new club champion: Wilson Furr, who will turn 16 Tuesday. Furr, who reached the round of 32 at last year’s USGA Junior Championship, shot rounds of 72, 70 and 67 for a 54-hole total of 7-under-par 209 to win the club title by six shots. During Sunday’s final […]
I made several observations about World Cup soccer in my syndicated column last week. Chief among those were: although I don’t normally follow soccer closely, I really do enjoy the World Cup; and, although I enjoy the World Cup, I believe the sport would be better served if there weren’t so many instances of players […]
We begin today with an admission: I watch soccer once every four years. So I am not a futball expert or anything close. I recognize a goalkeeper. I am not so sure about a striker and a sweeper. But I do know a faker when I see one, and we’ll get to that. I really […]
So we’re out of the World Cup. Belgium ended the U.S. soccer dream with a 2-1 victory in extra time. It was a splendid effort — great theatre, too. But the Belgians were better. They were more skilled, more polished. If not for our goalkeeper, Tim Howard, it would have been worse, much worse. In […]
(The following column ran in more than two dozen Mississippi newspapers this past week. Many, many readers have written to describe their own memories of — and encounters with — Dizzy Dean. What struck me is how many of the memories dealt as much with family as with Diz. Many wrote of Saturday afternoons spent […]
