Notes, quotes and an opinion or two…. No, the New Orleans Saints won’t make the playoffs, but the Saints are far better than several teams that will. You can count the number of teams that would want to face the Saints in the playoffs on the fingers of one catcher’s mitt. . . . We […]
The 1964-65 Lanier Bulldogs finished 43-0, averaged 102 points per game and won a national championship tournament. Get out your calendars. Circle the date: Jan. 23, 2013. This will be a long overdue night to remember. First some background. The 1964-65 Lanier High basketball team, coached by Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Orsmond Jordan, won […]
We had a splendid night at the museum last night, remembering Babe McCarthy’s great Mississippi State basketball teams of the late ’50s and early ’60s. Author Kyle Veazey joined Bailey Howell, Doug Hutton, Larry Lee and me on a panel. We had a museum full of folks who seemed to hang on every word. The […]
(Writer’s note: Jack Cristil celebrates his 87th birthday today. I wrote this column the day Jack Cristil announced his retirement in February of 2011.) Doesn’t matter which university you pulled for, you listened to Cristil. You listened because he put you there, in the stadium. We knew Jack Cristil couldn’t go on forever. Here lately, […]
BOND — The cemetery is modest, perhaps the size of a football field, surrounded by a chain link fence. It’s out from Bond, which is out from Wiggins, about 28 miles south of Hattiesburg. Here, Jay Hannah “Dizzy” Dean rests side by side with his wife, Pat, in the morning shade of a cypress tree. […]
Today is Boo Ferriss’s 91st birthday. Our gift: A remembrance of one of the greatest days in a great life. May 3, 2004. It is now official: Delta St. baseball best in the country MONTGOMERY – Forty years ago, 42-year-old Boo Ferriss carved a baseball diamond out of a Delta beanfield. He had a […]
If you are a sports and/or history buff, you won’t want to miss this evening’s at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Here’s why: We are approaching the 50th anniversary of Mississippi State’s first game in the NCAA Basketball Tournament when Babe McCarthy’s ballclub defied the wishes of state government and played Loyola […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two. . . I can’t vote for the C Spire Conerly Trophy any more, but do still have a vote in the Heisman Trophy. That vote was cast for Johnny Manziel. And, yes, I know he is a freshman, but the Heisman doesn’t go to the best upperclassmen in […]
