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Peyton Manning stands as the NFL’s gold standard, the highest paid player in football who just completed the best season of one of the greatest careers in the history of the sport. Chris Clark, his teammate, is a walking, talking definition of an NFL journeyman. He wasn’t highly recruited out of high school, wasn’t drafted […]
When Mississippian Jerry Rice crossed the goal line for one of his career-record seven Super Super Bowl touchdowns Jan. 29, 1995, back judge Jack Vaughn, a Mississippi State grad and Starkville resident was there to throw up his hands and signal the touchdown. A Sports Illustrated photographer snapped a photo that Vaughn keeps in his […]
(Writer’s note: I’ve watched all 47 previous Super Bowls, including 27 in person as a working journalist. Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Jerry Rice provided three of the greatest individual Super Bowl performances I have witnessed. The following column was written after one of those on January 29, 1995, 19 years ago today, at […]
(The weather outside reminds me of Feb. 2, 2011, when I was in the Dallas area to cover the Super Bowl at JerryWorld, only I couldn’t get there because of the roads. Today, in New Jersey, they actually are charging folks admission to go sit through Media Day. Unbelievable. Anyway, of all the Super Bowl […]
(Writer’s note: Ray Guy is one of two senior finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. This is his seventh time as a finalist. If there is any justice, he will go in. The announcement will come Saturday from New York City. Here’s a column I wrote on Guy in 2004.) People ask […]
The phone call came from area code 503, Oregon, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. What a pleasant surprise: The caller was Hall of Famer Art Davis, the great Mississippi State football star from the 1950s. “You’ve got one of the greatest college football players in history who has lived in Mississippi for decades, […]
FOREST — The stands were packed and so was the stage at one end of Scott Central’s well-kept, Hoosiers-like gymnasium Friday night. Everyone was there to see history made. Victoria Vivians, a tall, doe-eyed, unassuming 18-year-old, delivered on the history-making. It did not take her long. Vivians needed 23-points to break the Mississippi’s high […]
You know about Super Bowl quarterback Peyton Manning’s Mississippi background – dad Archie born in Drew and mother Olivia from Philadelphia. But did you know the other Super Bowl quarterback, Russell Wilson, has Mississippi roots as well? He most certainly does. Russell Wilson’s late father, Harry,was born and spent his formative years in Jackson. His […]
