Notes, quotes and an opinion or two. . . Today’s offering begins in praise of Jonathan Mills, the rugged heart and soul of the Southern Miss basketball team that will play BYU Wednesday night in the quarterfinals of the NIT Tournament at Hattiesburg. A Chicago native, Mills was listed initially at USM as a 6-foot-8 […]
(Writer’s note: Both Ralph Boston and Bianca Knight, Mississippi Olympics gold medalists, will appear Wednesday at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum when the museum’s Olympics Room will be officially re-opened after being refurbished. The informal event (3-6 p.m.) is open to the public. This was a column from this website written last […]
(Writer’s note: This was my column on March 19, 2001, when Ole Miss defeated Notre Dame in Kansas City to reach the Sweet 16. Tonight: Same town, different arena and opponent 12 years later. We can only hope for as much drama and such a great game as that night at Kemper Arena.) KANSAS CITY, […]
Wilbert Jordan was the first. He was before Willie Heidelburg at Southern Miss, before Ben Williams and Coolidge Ball at Ole Miss, before Frank Dowsing and Larry Fry at Mississippi State. Jordan, who died March 14 at the age of 62 of an apparent heart attack, was the first African American to play a […]
Ole Miss sharpshooter Marshall Henderson is basketball’s version of a lightning rod. He knows it. He revels in it. He’s a sports writer’s dream, a walking, trash-talking story waiting to happen. You never know what’s coming next but you know it’s going to be different. One regret of my first basketball season out of […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two after a weekend off to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in a way only Jackson does (thank-you Malcolm White)… Just because I stayed away from the laptop doesn’t mean I missed all the hoops. So, first thing’s first: • Congrats to Andy Kennedy, the winning-est coach in Ole Miss […]
First thing first: Rick Ray’s eventual success or failure at Mississippi State will depend on his ability to bring talented players who fit his system to Starkville. Nobody — from John Wooden to Phil Jackson — coaches well enough to win high-level basketball without talent. Nobody. That said, I greatly admire what Ray has done […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two. . . . Congratulations to former Ole Miss standout Mike Wallace, the fastest man in football, for his new five-year, $60 million contract with the Miami Dolphins, who just got a lot faster and more explosive. Congrats also to Hattiesburg agent Bus Cook who negotiated the contract and […]
