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New Orleans resident Archie Manning has been invited to Omaha and the College World Series several times by his LSU friends down in south Louisiana. Manning says he has always told them: thanks, but no thanks. “I was holding out for Ole Miss to make it,” Manning said Tuesday morning. So now the Ole Miss […]
Last year, Mississippi State’s Hunter Renfroe won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Bulldogs won an NCAA Regional, a Super Regional and made it all the way to the finals of the College World Series. This year, Auston Bousfield of Ole Miss won the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, and then the Rebels won […]
Sixty nine years ago, one year after D Day, the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Athletics 5-2 at Fenway Park. For rookie Boo Ferriss, it was his eighth straight victory in eight starts to begin his Major League career. It tied an American League record. Ferriss went the distance and scattered 14 hits, which […]
Jackson, Miss.— A whole wide world of wonder awaits visitors to the LeFleur Museum District! Saturday, July 5 the LeFleur Museum District members, the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum, the Mississippi Children’s Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, will be hosting a joint event, “Summertime, […]
The Farm Bureau Watermelon Classic, a Mississippi holiday tradition and one of the state’s largest road races, will take place again on July 4. The 5K run/walk (7:30 a.m.) begins and ends at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Events also include a one-mile wellness runs for all ages and a tot trot […]
Long-time Columbus coach and educator Jim “Tuffy” Bourland, the MVP of the first Mississippi High School football all-star game, died at the age of 81 last August. In the accompanying photograph, you see Bourland’s son, Jackson radio executive John Bourland, with his dad’s souvenir sweater jacket from that first all-star game played back in 1950. […]
Archie Manning, surely one of the most beloved athletes in Mississippi history, has been chosen to receive The Rube Award for his lifetime of contributions to sports in the Magnolia State. Manning follows Boo Ferriss and Ben Puckett as recipients of The Rube, which is named for the late Michael Rubenstein, long-time TV sportscaster and […]
Services have been set for Hall of Famer Bill Buckner. Visitation will be at Wright Ferguson Highland Colony from 5 until 8 p.m. Tuesday. Another visitation will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church of Jackson, followed by the funeral service at noon. ••• Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Bill Buckner, who touched […]
