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Category: Rick’s Writings

Notes, quotes and a song or two . . .

Posted on: April 06,2013

Notes, quotes and an opinion or two. . . Billy Hamilton, the Taylorsville flash, has started fast for the Class AAA Louisville Bats. He’s hit safely three times in his first seven at bats, with two doubles and three stolen bases. That’s after a mostly poor spring with the parent Cincinnati Reds . . . […]

Bull Sullivan: The rest of the story. . .

Posted on: April 05,2013

  Here’s one of the reasons I love my job so much. The family of the late Robert “Bull Cyclone” Sullivan visited the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame for the first time Friday morning. So I got to watch them see the video exhibit of their daddy for the first time. There were smiles. There […]

At 82, Jack Carlisle is still 'a miracle worker'

Posted on: April 03,2013

This will surprise nobody who knows Hall of Famer Jack Carlisle. At 82, he’s back on the football field doing what he does best. Coaching. “He’s a miracle worker,” says Mississippi College head coach Norman Joseph. “Use that as your headline. Jack Carlisle is a miracle worker.” Carlisle, who was out of coaching for the […]

Willie's timeless Prayer for Little Leaguers

Posted on: April 02,2013

(My neighbor, 7-year-old Ren Partridge plays his first game of little boys baseball this afternoon. I can’t wait. Little League baseball remains one of the grandest experiences I have had on this planet. I relived it again with my son and daughter. I am reminded at this time of my late friend Willie Morris’s prayer […]

Jake Gibbs, Bobby Cox, Evan Gattis and more….

Posted on: March 31,2013

Notes, quotes and an opinion or two while savoring my favorite sports time of the year…. I mean, how could it not be: Major League baseball openers, college baseball in full swing, the Final Four and The Masters coming up. Spring has sprung. As ol’ pal Jerry Clower would have said, “Ain’t it good?” Made […]

A coach named War Daddy, Harold White, Sr.

Posted on: March 29,2013

(Writer’s note: I wrote this column for The Clarion-Ledger in 2004. It is about a coach nicknamed War Daddy. His real name was Harold T. White. Hal White, of Hal and Mal’s fame, was Harold T. White, Jr. Hal’s son, Taylor, is Harold T. White III.) Eddie Khayat, at his Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame […]

Hal White: A quarterback way back when

Posted on: March 28,2013

Long before he became a restauranteur, raconteur and half the namesake for Jackson’s famous Hal and Mal’s, Hal White was a quarterback. And a safety. And a kicker. And a punter. And the captain. “He was just about all I had,” says Jim Drewry, whose first year as head coach at Booneville High was Hal […]

Even in defeat, it's now Tyndalltown

Posted on: March 28,2013

Donnie Tyndall’s Southern Miss Golden Eagles suffered their worst loss of his first season in their last game. BYU’s taller, much more accurate Cougars handed USM a 79-62 defeat, denying USM a trip to New York City and Madison Square Garden. The Cougars simply worked the ball around and through the Eagles’ matchup zone until […]

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