Thank-you to all who attended today’s C Spire Howell-Gillom Awards Luncheon. Thanks to the players, the coaches, the fans and the media. Thanks to Van Chancellor for an incredibly well-done keynote speech. Van could take his show on the road. Thanks to C Spire for […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 15 years now, but it has. This was a July night in 1998. My father, Ace Cleveland, dead for two years, was to be inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. I was to accept for him. Anybody who knows me knows at all […]
(Writer’s note: The C Spire Howell Trophy, named for Bailey Howell, goes to the most outstanding college basketblall player in Mississippi each year. It is named for the most outstanding college basketball player in Mississippi history. In Bailey Howell’s case, the incredible numbers don’t lie. This column was written in 1997, on the occasion of […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or three. . . No matter who wins these invidual awards (see C Spire Howell, Gillom trophies), there’s always going to be controversy. There was with the C Spire Conerly last fall and there is with the Heisman almost every year. I have long since lost count of how many […]
(Writer’s note: In more than 40 years of covering sports in Mississippi, one of my favorite annual events was the MHSAA State Tournament at the so-called Big House. I used to tell people you could tear a sheet of paper out of your notebook, make a paper airplane, send it flying, and wherever it lands […]
Writer’s note: Robert Gene Wiggins, 69, professor emeritus of journalism at USM, passed away February 21, 2013, at his home. Gene was a former sports writer at the Jackson Daily News under Hall of Famer Lee Baker and then at the Hattiesburg American. In 1969, while the sports editor of The American, he was voted […]
Van Chancellor, one of the great characters I have covered in Mississippi sports, will be the keynote speaker at our C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophies luncheon on March 11 at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. He’s perfect for the occasion. Bailey Howell was Van’s childhood hero. Peggie Gillom played and coached for him […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two for your sunny Sunday. . . First off, congrats to Rusty Hampton, his assistant John Hall and their Clarion-Ledger sports staff for finishing in the Top 10 in the nation in three sports section categories, as judged by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Here’s the deal: I know […]
