This article first appeared at MississippiToday.org. It was written by former museum Executive Director & Historian, Rick Cleveland. Jackson native Chris Maloney, new manager of the Mississippi Braves, spent 28 years employed by the St. Louis Cardinals. He managed championship minor league teams at three different levels. He coached first base and third base for the Major […]
As first seen on MississippiToday.com, by Rick Cleveland Hugh Freeze made $5 million a year to coach Ole Miss football. He was a rock star. He took Ole Miss to its first Sugar Bowl in 46 years and won it by four touchdowns. He beat juggernaut Alabama two straight games and almost a third. He […]
Ole Miss’ Saiz, State’s Vivians take home trophies BY RICK CLEVELAND MARCH 6, 2017 SHARETWEET EMAILPRINTMORE Rick Clevleand Sebastian Saiz (center), poses with Bailey Howell and Andy Kennedy (right), after winning the C Spire Howell Trophy. Notes, quotes and an opinion or three from the C Spire Howell and Gillom Awards luncheon Monday at […]
There is still a while to go before the end of the regular basketball season for Mississippi colleges but voters are starting to look for their favorites to win the C Spire Howell Trophy and the C Spire Gillom Trophy. Each year a panel of state- wide media select the finalists for this coveted honor, […]
By Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum has a new introductory film in its newly named Gertrude C. Ford Foundation Theatre. The new, 15-minute presentation was produced through a generous grant from the Jackson-based Gertrude C. Ford Foundation. The museum, which turned 20 last July, still showed the original […]
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Jeff Brantley remembers dreaming of pitching in the World Series as early as when he was a child of six or seven. “I dreamed of it, worked toward it, busted my tail for a lot of years …” Brantley says. And then, in 1989, at age 26, he helped the […]
I don’t know about anyone else, but this weekend was filled with many differing emotions for me. There were highs and lows during the two days meant for most of us to get a break from the work week. Saturday saw Jackson State win their first game of the Tony Hughes era and Ole Miss, […]
The greatest player in Southern Miss basketball history is returning to Hattiesburg as a member of the Golden Eagle basketball staff. Now then, Clarence Weatherspoon needs to help Doc Sadler recruit players and coach them to play with the same passion and ability that he always displayed himself. That will be no easy chore. […]
