Just landed in Chicago where we’ve come to celebrate my 60th birthday this weekend with my lovely daughter who opens in a brand new play. We got awful news en route. Ruleville’s Duff Durrough, one of the most genuinely talented and sweet people I’ve known, passed away this morning of liver cancer. Duff was […]
After years out the football prognosticating business, Orley Hood took less than half a season to regain his regally omniscient form. Hood went Bo Derek on us last week, a perfect 10 for 10 to pull into a tie on the season. “Don’t take long to warm up a Roll Royce,” Hood said when asked […]
It’s a rainy Sunday morning in Fondren. The coffee is hot and strong. I’m watching Ryder Cuppers start to warm up, and reflecting on what I watched last night flipping channels between the Monsoon Bowl in Hattiesburg and Ole Miss-Bama in Tuscaloosa. • Really hard to make definitive observations about Louisville-USM because of the […]
Mississippi College Thursday announced its intention to return to NCAA Division II, the level on which its teams played until 1996 when the school dropped back to Division III. This is good news for Mississippi College, good news for Delta State and good news for the Gulf South Conference, which already has tendered MC […]
Over the past 30 years, I’m guessing I have called Ole Miss great Jake Gibbs at home probably far more than 100 times for various stories, columns or books. Invariably, Patricia Gibbs, Jake’s wife, would answer in her soft, pleasant voice, and we’d usually talk for 10 or 15 minutes before she either got […]
Orley vowed a comeback last week and he delivered, cutting Rick’s lead to a measly one game on the season. Cleveland is now 21-8, Hood 20-9, and, no, that’s not against the spread. Both missed on the Saints, but both appear to have learned their lesson. Orley’s picks Ole Miss at Alabama: It’s one of […]
Scattershooting on a Sunday morning, wishing I could watch Kris Medlen pitch every day (and so does Fredi Gonzalez wish that) . . . Seriously, Medlen has become a Greg Maddux clone. He is 8-0 with a 0.76 earned run average in 10 starts this season. The Braves have won the last 21 games […]
(Author’s note: It happened 35 years ago this week. Ole Miss defeated eventually national champion Notre Dame on a sweltering day at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Ten years ago, this was written for The Clarion Ledger on the 25th anniversary of the game. Reprinted with permission of the Clarion-Ledger.) Much of college football’s appeal is that […]
