This is the last of a six-part series about the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016. JACKSON — Forty-six years have passed since Wee Willie Heidelburg jitterbugged into the end zone twice to help 50-point underdog Southern Miss defeat undefeated Ole Miss and Archie Manning 30-14 on the then-brand new Astroturf at Oxford. […]
Off the basketball court, Larry Smith is one of the nicest, most polite, and unassuming guys you would ever want to meet. On the floor, when he played for the Alcorn State Braves and with three teams in the NBA, Smith took on a different personality, entirely. “Mr. Mean,” was the nickname given to Smith […]
This is the fourth in a series about the inductees into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2016. The record shows that Kay James won 403 games in 22 seasons (1977-99) as women’s basketball coach at Southern Miss. She ranks in the top 25 all-time nationally among NCAA Division I coaches in victories […]
Former Ole Miss All-American Wesley Walls, one of the last, great-two-way players in college football history and a five-time Pro Bowler in the National Football League, goes into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Saturday night. “I am humbled,” Walls said. “When you think about all the great athletes who have played sports in Mississippi […]
This is the second of a series of stories about the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame’s inductees for the Class of 2016. Jackie Sherrill was born in Duncan, Okla., but he spent his formative years in Biloxi and, much later, coached the Mississippi State football Bulldogs for 13 seasons. He knows much about the Magnolia […]
(This is the first of a series of stories on the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2016, which will be inducted in ceremonies Saturday night, July 30, at the Jackson Convention Complex. See below for ticket information.) The so-called football factories contributed by far the most to the College Football Hall of Fame […]
We will induct another remarkable class into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame on the night of July 30 at the Jackson Convention Complex. They are a diverse and accomplished group. I consider myself fortunate to have covered them all during my sports writing career. Only in Mississippi do you induct two men into your […]
I have on my desk a perfectly preserved game program from the Mississippi State-Ole Miss football game played Nov. 24, 1945. On page 1, it tells us about school colors: “For Ole Miss, Red and Blue; for Mississippi State, Maroon and White.” That hasn’t changed. Most everything else has. We begin with the price of […]
