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STARKVILLE — Mississippi State, a whopping 26-point underdog to top-ranked Alabama, achieved the most necessary ingredient for a monumental upset. The Bulldogs won the turnover battle 4-1. To win against such huge odds, you have to be plus-2 or more, and State was plus-3. The other ingredients weren’t there. You can’t waste scoring opportunities, especially […]
From Special Reports SCOOBA – The juggernaut that is East Mississippi Community College football was back in the news in a big way today. Headlined by Region 23 Offensive Most Valuable Player Dontreal Pruitt and Coach of the Year Buddy Stephens, the MACJC State Champion Lions of East Mississippi Community College have placed a state-high […]
Ole Miss junior quarterback Bo Wallace, the 2012 C Spire Conerly Trophy winner, continues to put up huge numbers in 2013. His 416 yards passing and 428 yards of total offense in last Saturday’s 34-24 victory over Arkansas both rank as the second-best single-game performance in Ole Miss football history. Wallace has moved into fifth […]
Undefeated Millsaps College was down 21-10 with 2 minutes, 47 seconds remaining this past Saturday, and that’s not all. Centre College had just taken over possession of the football. And that’s not all. Millsaps, which had scored only 10 points all afternoon, was 11 points down with only two timeouts remaining. Final score: Millsaps […]
The New Orleans Saints will induct former three players into their first official Ring of Honor tonight at halftime of the Cowboys-Saints game at the Superdome. They got it right: Archie Manning, Rickey Jackson and Willie Roaf. I’ve watched the Saints from the beginning. Those should be the first three. Such stalwarts as Deuce McAllister, […]
SCOOBA — Buddy Stephens earlier this week stopped short of saying his 2013 East Mississippi Community College Lions are his best team ever. His players made that statement for him — emphatically — Saturday when the undefeated Lions smashed South Division champion Jones JC 61-24 for the state championship and the right to make history […]
Ray Perkins has coached Alabama, the New York Giants and the Tampa Bay Bucs, but the Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer may never have faced a challenge quite like this one Saturday. That’s when his Jones Junior College Bobcats will take the East Mississippi Lions for the state’s junior college championship. East Mississippi, 10-0, has […]
Funny, the neat things we learn, sometimes years and years after the fact. For instance, I knew Mississippi and Pro Football Hall of Famer Lem Barney played in seven Pro Bowls. I knew he had his number retired by the Detroit Lions. I knew he intercepted the first pass thrown his direction in the NFL […]
