If I’m having a bad day here at the museum, there’s one sure way to turn things around and lift my spirits. I just go out into the museum, step up to one of the kiosks and touch the screen to hear another great story from another great Mississippi legend. One of my favorites follows. […]
Did the cream start to rise? Or did Orley just have an off day. Cleveland went 8-1 last week, while Hood faltered at 6-3. On the season, Cleveland leads at 13-5, compared to Hood’s 11-7. Says Orley, “The comeback begins this week.” We shall see… Orley’s picks Ole Miss at Tulane: Good for the Rebs […]
Scattershooting while wondering how Oxford’s plumbing held up to the Texas invasion. . . • Did you see the play Western Kentucky used to beat Kentucky in overtime? It was a throwback from a halfback to the quarterback who made a shoestring catch and then could have walked into the end zone. It was a […]
I’m just guessing that Hugh Freeze hasn’t used any props or gizmos to get his Ole Miss Rebels fired up to play the Texas Longhorns Saturday. If the Rebels aren’t amped for this one, something’s wrong. But, lest we forget, 20 years ago this week, Jackie Sherrill, then the head coach at Mississippi State, was […]
Let’s go back 37 years to the fall of 1975. I was learning on the job as a sports reporter who still didn’t need to shave at The Hattiesburg American.It was my first full-time newspaper job. Mack Brown, who will coach Texas at Ole Miss this Saturday night, was learning on the job as the wide […]
So, we move into the third week of the college season, all square as they would say at the British Open. After two weeks, Orley and Rick are dead even at 5-4, meaning they have picked one more right than wrong. That would be good against the spread, but they’re picking head-up. Which means, of […]
OXFORD — Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Central Arkansas and UTEP bear no resemblance to Arkansas and Mississippi State, and that’s not to mention LSU and Alabama. Hugh Freeze’s Ole Miss program still faces some growing pains in the lion’s den also known as the SEC West. But, bottom line, Freeze’s first team, which […]
ENROUTE FROM STARKVILLE TO OXFORD — About this time two years ago eventual national champion Auburn escaped Starkville with a narrow victory over Mississippi State. The difference, I wrote then: Cam Newton. Had State successfully recruited Newton, State would have won that game going away. The difference was so obvious and it was the man […]
