Here’s what occurs to me as I read twitter and facebook with everyone hammering Ole Miss last night and the New Orleans Saints tonight for blowing leads in games in which it looked as though they might win: Sometimes, you just have to give credit to the other guy. In these cases, two guys: Johnny […]
You read the statistics and scores from the 1959 Ole Miss football season and it’s like reading something out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Such excellence seems hardly possible. Outscored opponents 350-21? Believe it. Never allowed a touchdown drive of more than eight yards? Believe it. Scored more than 33 points a game? Believe […]
Boo Ferriss was honored all different kinds of ways at Mississippi State on homecoming weekend. He was the grand marshal of the homecoming parade. John Cohen had him address his baseball team. And the MSU Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter named their beautiful courtyard in honor of Ferriss, who was initiated more than 70 years ago. […]
I watched Southern Miss play FIU Saturday and lose its 17th straight game. During and afterward, people kept asking: What is wrong? How can this have happened to such a proud program? So, what’s wrong? Just about everything. In general, there is a lack of team speed. Some of the best players are hurt, and […]
Las Vegas oddsmakers have made Texas A & M a seven-point favorite over the Ole Miss Rebels Saturday night at Oxford. The over-and-under is a whopping 75.5, higher even than Washington-Oregon. In other words, oddsmakers don’t think Ole Miss can stop Johnny Manziel or that A & M can slow down the Rebels much, either. […]
Larry “Doc” Harrington, the first athletic trainer ever selected for induction into your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, died Saturday following a long illness. He was 81. At Southern Miss, folks knew Doc as much more than a guy who taped ankles and eased aches and pains. Says USM, MSHoF and College Football Hall of […]
This was last week’s column syndicated through the Mississippi Press Association (thank-you, MPA and subscribing newspapers). Since it was written, Ray Perkins has had shoulder surgery (Tuesday), coached against East Central with his arm in a sling (Thursday), won 47-0, and moved to No. 3 in the national rankings. ELLISVILLE ― Sun-burned, 71-year-old Ray Perkins […]
Since Southern Miss last won a football game… … 650 days have passed. … we have celebrated Christmas twice. … USM has lost 16 consecutive football games. ….USM has had three presidents, three athletic directors, two football coaches and been nearly blown away by one EF4 multiple-vortex wedge tornado (the king daddy of tornadoes). … […]
