You may have seen the news in The Clarion-Ledger today that told of the death of Kenneth Andrews, the newspaper’s former publisher and a wonderful gentleman. Ken was 83 when he died of pancreatic cancer, and he had lived a full and productive life. Andrews came to Jackson in 1982 when Gannett bought both Jackson […]
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Lou Weddington Hart has won the state’s women’s amateur golf championship nine times. Her daddy, Hunter George Weddington, the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame, won the men’s amateur championship three times. So Lou Hart is well-versed on Mississippi golf history. That’s what makes this first statement from […]
Sunday will be Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Day at Annandale for the fourth and final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. Available in the Pearl River Resort (between the clubhouse and ninth green) will be several Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers, including Mississippi State and NBA basketball great Bailey Howell, former Ole Miss Rebel […]
The following column was written two years ago from Annandale Golf Club when what is now the Sanderson Farms Championship was then the Viking Classic. Thing is, you could change a few words and it could run again this week. Don’t know what it is about the PGA golf and Mississippi tournaments, but ducks must […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two while vacationing on Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, where they don’t get Atlanta the Braves on TV every night, which makes my wife a happy camper…. Received this email from Bill Campbell about Hall of Famer Ray Guy: “Recently on a flight to Jackson, I recognized Ray Guy […]
(This is an expanded version of my column that is syndicated in more than 20 Mississippi newspapers.) Recently, 14-year-old Wilson Furr of Jackson won the prestigious Future Masters golf tournament at Dothan, Ala., shooting 3-under par for 54 holes. The following day, Furr played 36 holes, competing against older teens, and was by three shots […]
Marion “Chief” Henley, one of the greatest football coaches most people never heard of, has died at his retirement home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.. Henley who was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, was 79. Henley’s Picayune Carver High School teams won 64 straight football games in the 1960s, which was […]
(Steve McNair, who would be 40 now, died four years ago Thursday. This is the column I wrote on the day of his retirement five years ago. He becomes eligible for induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in the Class of 2014. Covering him his senior year at Alcorn State remains a highlight […]
