Notes, quotes and an opinion or two… I have been amazed by the reactions to The Clarion-Ledger picking up my syndicated column for its online (Wednesday) and print (Sunday) editions. Apparently, many readers mistakenly believe I have gone back to work for the CL. Couldn’t be further from the truth. The Mississippi Press Association has […]
We will have a crowd of more than 550 at the Jackson Hilton tonight for the BancorpSouth Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet. Two folks who would have been with us will not be. Hall of Famers Bobby Crespino and George “Boomer” Scott — two men with Greenville backgrounds — died earlier this week. […]
OK, I know which item I am bidding on in Saturday’s Drawdown of Champions and silent auction at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. It’s this splendid porch glider, made by Hall of Fame football coach Jack Carlisle, who apparently is also a master carpenter. The 48-inch swing is made of treated pine. […]
I am no doctor. I certainly have no substantiated statistical data on the long-time effects of football on a human being’s health. I do know that virtually every man I know, who played football into their 30s, suffers high moderate to mostly severe health problems of some sort. And I know a lot of them. […]
This the last of a series on your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s Class of 2013. John Michael Rubenstein, raised in Booneville, was a Vanderbilt University honors graduate and a man of many talents. The college major of this future Hall of Fame TV sports anchor and sports museum director? Why Asian studies, […]
Not often do you answer the phone and the voice on the other end is a former NFL Coach of the Year. That happened to me a few minutes ago. “This is Wayne Fontes,” the retired coach said, “and I wanted to tell you how badly my wife and I want to be at your […]
This is the fifth in a series of six profiles of your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2013 to be inducted Friday night at the Jackson Hilton as part of the BancorpSouth Induction Weekend. Langston Rogers, who has won virtutally every award and honor a sports information director can win, adds another honor […]
George “Boomer” Scott — the great Red Sox slugger from Greenville who famously called his home runs “taters” — died Sunday at his home in Greenville. He was 69. I met and interviewed Scott at his induction ceremonies into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2007 and asked him why he called his home […]
