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World War II veteran Howard Miskelly, father of Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame board president Oscar Miskelly, today was presented the Bronze Star in ceremonies at the State Capitol. The Bronze Star is the fourth highest combat decoration and recognizes meritorious service in battle. U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper and Governor Phil Bryant made the presentation. […]
John Francis “Johnny” Pott, the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame golfer, turned 78 last November. “Makes it a little easier for me to shoot my age,” said Pott Thursday morning, just before he tried to do just that at his home course in Lake County, Cal., in wine country. “That’s the one good thing about […]
I was there at the Louisiana Superdome that night when Jamie Collins leaped so high to block a field goal that I wanted to see a replay right then and there. I mean, had I really seen what I thought I saw? Ryan Moore’s photo in the next day’s newspaper confirmed it. Collins — known […]
Leo Durocher once said, “Nice guys finish last.” Wrong. Billy Chadwick, who today announced his retirement as tennis coach at Ole Miss, is positive proof that Leo the Lip was dead wrong. Ole Miss did finish last in the SEC in tennis, but that was the year before Chadwick took the job. Since then, Chadwick, […]
Little more than eight years ago, Jackson State was in the market for a football coach. I wrote that JSU should go back in its storied football past to move forward with its uncertain future. I suggested JSU could do a lot worse than Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Harold Jackson. Jackson, then was 60 […]
Mississippi sports history will be made in Jackson Saturday with the running of the seventh Mississippi Blues Marathon. The marathon, sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi, will become the first sporting event in Mississippi in which competitors will represent every state in the union. That’s right: Runners from all 50 of […]
So Starkville resident Jack Vaughn, the ex-NFL official who worked three Super Bowls as a field judge, visited the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum today. I thought I knew a whole lot about Jack, but I didn’t know all. I knew Jack was from Ponchatoula, La., but I didn’t know that the legendary […]
So, I come back to the museum this afternoon from a legislative reception and find Hall of Famer Jack Carlisle working as a volunteer at the ticket counter. That’s always a treat. So Jack starts telling stories and naturally I start listening. I’d be a fool not to. And Jack takes me back to 1967 […]
