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Bring your children, your camera and your Christmas List, and come visit with Santa Claus at the place where sports legends come alive. The date: Friday, Dec. 20. The time: 2-4 p.m. Take a tour and see some Mississippi’s greatest athletes or show your own skills in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s […]
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers Hill Denson and Mike Kinnison will be among the instructors at the Veritas Baseball School slated for Jan. 11, 2014. The school for youngsters, ages 8-12, will be held at the Sunnybrook baseball field in Ridgeland.Parking will be at the adjacent Holmes Community College campus and the cost per player […]
Mack Brown will coach his last game at the University of Texas in the Alamo Bowl. I, for one, will be sorry to see him go. He is a class act, always has been. Our paths crossed early in our careers and we have remained friends since. Here is my memory of Mack as a […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Laquon Treadwell became the first Ole Miss football player in program history to be named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year when the league announced its individual award winners on Wednesday, as voted on by the SEC coaches. A 6-foot-3, 215-pound wide receiver from Crete, Ill., Treadwell exploded onto the college scene […]
Hundreds, including an emotional Clarence Weatherspoon speaking from his heart, paid tribute to Hall of Famer M.K. Turk Tuesday in Hattiesburg. The 43-year-old Weatherspoon, tears rolling down his face, spoke eloquently of the respect he and other players had for Turk, who created a family type atmosphere for Southern Miss basketball. Turk, the winning-est coach […]
The following piece was written in 2010, 40 years after Tom Dempsey kicked a 63-yard field goal that was a record that stood until Sunday. I am not a physicist but I can tell you there is no comparison between the kick Dempsey made all those years ago and the kick Matt Prater made yesterday. […]
Here’s what people are saying about M.K. Turk, the great USM coach and Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer who died today at the age of 71. Quotes are provided by USM Media Relations Dept.: Dr. Rodney Bennett, Southern Miss President “Today, The University of Southern Mississippi mourns the loss of a great Golden Eagle, […]
M.K. Turk, the winningest men’s coach in Southern Miss basketball history and a 2005 inductee into your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, died today after a prolonged illness. He was 71. He was a great coach, a great friend. This is the column I wrote about M.K. in 2001 when USM and the City […]
