(The late Kent Hull will be honored Saturday at Scott Field when he becomes the fifth person and fourth football player to have his name added to the stadium facade. This is a column I wrote for The Clarion-Ledger the day Kent died last October.) Solid. That’s the one word to best describe Kent Hull. He was […]
Auburn and Mississippi State will play a huge game Saturday in Starkville. Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Cristil will attend, health permitting, and Jack long ago lost count of how many Auburn-Mississippi State games he has seen. No doubt, it’s close to 60. But Jack does remember one above all others. “It was the mid-1950s […]
After more than 45 years in sports writing, I have often been asked, “Well who’s the best football player you ever saw.” I’m lucky. I covered the NFL’s all-time leading passer (Brett Favre), the NFL’s all-time leading receiver and scorer (Jerry Rice) and Archie Manning, patriarch of the first family of American football. All are […]
Michael Clarke Duncan, who earned an Oscar nomination for his memorable performance in The Green Mile, died Monday at the age of 54. Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame basketball coach Davey Whitney remembers Duncan as a power forward on his 1983-84 Alcorn basketball team that won the SWAC championship and earned a bid to the NCAA […]
My good friend Michael Rubenstein would be 61 today. I, as so many, miss him. Here’s a remembrance of Rube, narrated by Bert Case, which was shown at the annual Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Banquet in July: [tentblogger-youtube NPprJu31sJs]
Orley Hood’s picks: Auburn at Mississippi State: Last year, oh man. Big. Auburn coming off the national championship. State full of ambition after making Michigan look like a junior high team in the bowl game. State plays great. Wipes the field with Auburn. Loses. Splat. This time? State 24, Auburn 20. A year late, Bulldog nation’ll […]
Yesterday, I learned how the other 99.99 percent lives. With no game to “cover,” I watched football on TV from 8 a.m. until midnight. TV timeouts? I just switched games. It began with Notre Dame and Navy. “Are they really playing this early?” the wife said. It ended with Oklahoma and UTEP. “They can’t still […]
This was September of 2004. Ole Miss was about to go play Wyoming in football. The better story, turns out, was at the Barnett Reservoir in the home of Walker “Sonny” Jones, a former Wyoming football star and an avid Ole Miss fan. I went and spent a Wednesday morning with Sonny to learn how […]
