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The story behind "Football on your Phone"

The story behind "Football on your Phone"

Posted on: August 08,2013

Leave it to Cooper Manning, the funniest human not doing standup for a living, for the best one-liner on the new Direct TV music video featuring his daddy and two younger brothers. “I was pretty amazed that my Dad wrote that song,” Coop deadpanned. “I mean, for a guy who only  listens to Conway Twitty […]

Happy Birthday, Ace….

Happy Birthday, Ace….

Posted on: August 06,2013

    It was a rainy day 47 years ago. I was just a kid. My dad, Ace, and I were driving around Hattiesburg and I told him I had decided, at 13, I wanted to be a sports writer. Ace just kept on driving, never changed expression and didn’t say anything. A few minutes […]

Every Hall of Famer has compelling story

Every Hall of Famer has compelling story

Posted on: August 06,2013

  Sixteen months into my job as director of your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, one certainty has become clear: There’s a poignant story behind every Hall of Famer.  Take the Class of 2013, inducted Friday night at the Jackson Hilton on the first bight of BancorpSouth Induction Weekend. There were  six inductees, […]

Dispelling rumors, and dispensing news….

Dispelling rumors, and dispensing news….

Posted on: August 05,2013

Notes, quotes and an opinion or two… I have  been amazed by the reactions to The Clarion-Ledger picking up my syndicated column for its online (Wednesday) and print (Sunday) editions. Apparently, many readers mistakenly believe I have gone back to work for the CL. Couldn’t be further from the truth. The Mississippi Press Association has […]

Freeze-signed Egg Bowl game ball, anyone?

Freeze-signed Egg Bowl game ball, anyone?

Posted on: August 02,2013

Your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s most fun event of the calendar year is set for Saturday night at the museum: The Drawdown of Champions (and silent auction) culminates the BancorpSouth Induction Banquet Weekend. The drawdown and auction event is scheduled (6:30-9:30 p.m.) and is sponsored by Puckett Machinery and Young Wells Williams […]

We celebrate new Famers, mourn those lost

We celebrate new Famers, mourn those lost

Posted on: August 02,2013

We will have a crowd of more than 550 at the Jackson Hilton tonight for the BancorpSouth Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet. Two folks who would have been with us will not be. Hall of Famers Bobby Crespino and George “Boomer” Scott — two men with Greenville backgrounds — died earlier this week. […]

I'm bidding on Jack Carlisle's glider

I'm bidding on Jack Carlisle's glider

Posted on: August 01,2013

OK, I know which item I am bidding on in Saturday’s Drawdown of Champions and silent auction at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. It’s this splendid porch glider, made by Hall of Fame football coach Jack Carlisle, who apparently is also a master carpenter. The 48-inch swing is made of treated pine. […]

A new parking lot for your Hall of Fame

A new parking lot for your Hall of Fame

Posted on: August 01,2013

By Rick Cleveland Over the years, driving into your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s parking lot had become like driving through a mine field. There were potholes, sinkholes and the lines had disappeared like the chalk down the first base line by the sixth of a little league baseball game. We needed help. […]