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Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Lou Weddington Hart has won the state’s women’s amateur golf championship nine times. Her daddy, Hunter George Weddington, the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame, won the men’s amateur championship three times. So Lou Hart is well-versed on Mississippi golf history. That’s what makes this first statement from […]
Sunday will be Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Day at Annandale for the fourth and final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. Available in the Pearl River Resort (between the clubhouse and ninth green) will be several Mississippi Sports Hall of Famers, including Mississippi State and NBA basketball great Bailey Howell, former Ole Miss Rebel […]
The following column was written two years ago from Annandale Golf Club when what is now the Sanderson Farms Championship was then the Viking Classic. Thing is, you could change a few words and it could run again this week. Don’t know what it is about the PGA golf and Mississippi tournaments, but ducks must […]
Ben Puckett, a businessman and philanthropist who was passionate about Mississippi sports, will receive the second annual Rube Award at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum’s 51st induction banquet August 2. The Rube Award, named for long-time Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum executive director Michael Rubenstein, goes annually to a person […]
Notes, quotes and an opinion or two while vacationing on Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, where they don’t get Atlanta the Braves on TV every night, which makes my wife a happy camper…. Received this email from Bill Campbell about Hall of Famer Ray Guy: “Recently on a flight to Jackson, I recognized Ray Guy […]
By Harriet Laird MSU alumnus and “Game of Change” guard Leland Noyal Mitchell, 72, died Saturday [July 6] at his residence in Starkville. A real estate developer with interests in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, he was a member of Mississippi State’s M-Club Hall of Fame. Mitchell, played basketball at MSU under Babe McCarthy during the […]
(This is an expanded version of my column that is syndicated in more than 20 Mississippi newspapers.) Recently, 14-year-old Wilson Furr of Jackson won the prestigious Future Masters golf tournament at Dothan, Ala., shooting 3-under par for 54 holes. The following day, Furr played 36 holes, competing against older teens, and was by three shots […]
Alan Ash of Atmore, Ala., and Rebecca Buteau of Madison were the overall winners in the 30th annual Farm Bureau Watermelon 5K Classic on Independence Day at your Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. In unusually mild temperatures for this time of the year, Ash, a 22-year-old, ran the 3.1 mile course in 16 […]
