Notes, quotes and an opinion or two: Many fans know that this is the best Ole Miss start in SEC basketball since 1936-37. But here’s what you might not know: That Ole Miss team 76 years ago included three players later selected to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame: Bonnie “Country” Graham, Bruiser Kinard and […]
Most readers of this will know 74-year-old Robert Khayat as the former Ole Miss chancellor and former Rebel football and baseball star who went on to play for the Washington Redskins in the NFL. He is a Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer and a loyal supporter of our museum. What many won’t know about Khayat […]
I was eight years old when Mama bought me a transistor radio, and that little wonder of wonders took me places. I could listen to rock and roll from Chicago on WLS. More importantly, I could listen to St. Louis Cardinals games on KMOX in St. Louis. After bedtime and “lights out,” I’d hide that […]
Next week the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will honor the Lanier High School team of 1964-65 that won 43 games, lost none and averaged 100 points per game. They were national champions. But, today, we’ll go back 21 years earlier and visit the other end of the spectrum. This was early December, […]
Funny the way your mind works. Fifty-two years ago this month I saw the first football play that registers in my mind. I was eight years old at the time, and had seen plenty of football, but this is the first play I vividly remember. Maybe it was because it was seen from the sidelines […]
He was practically unhittable, Scott Bittle was, when he dominated Southeastern Conference hitters for Ole Miss in 2008 and won the C Spire Boo Ferriss Trophy. Bittle threw one pitch so cruelly effective that it had its own name: The Thing. It looked like a fastball until it approached home plate and then it just […]
Hard to say to say what is more impressive: • The last four college football National Champions (3 Bama, 1 Auburn) all have been from that state just the other side of Meridian. • The last seven National Champions are all from the SEC. • Five of the top 10 teams in the final Associated […]
OK, so you saw Seattle Seahawks rookie quarterback Russell Wilson lead his team to a 24-14 road victory over Washington and Robert Griffin III and into the second round of the NFL playoffs. Right? You saw Wilson pass for 187 yards and run for 84 more without a turnover. Right? But did you see Wilson […]
