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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 […]
Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, which was actually Jan. 15, 1929. It seems an appropriate time to consider what sports and some pioneer athletes did for integration in the Deep South, Mississippi in particular. Having been a product of those times I well remember. Indeed, I remember when Sam “Bam” Cunningham ran […]
Little known fact: Hall of Fame tennis coach Billy Chadwick led the city of Jackson in scoring in peewee football as a sixth grader at Wilkins Elementary. He was an 11-year-old Bronco Nagurski. “It’s funny, I was one of the biggest kids in the sixth grade and loved football,” Chadwick says. “It was easy.” Then […]
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 […]
