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A loving mother remembers her son Steve McNair would have been 40 today. He was a Valentine’s Day baby, born in 1973. Lucille McNair, his mother, remembers. “That boy was in a hurry,” she said. “I was in labor for less than an hour. I barely made it to the hospital.” Mrs. McNair, recovering from […]
By Joey Martin Just wanted to throw in something about former Natchez track coach Henry “Doc” Woods, who died of cancer on February 9 in Dallas. Woods coached track and field for 43 years, starting out at the former Sadie V. Thompson High School before moving on to North Natchez and Natchez High. He won […]
So, I suppose we should be immune to it by now. I’m talking about how the rest of the world, and mostly the national networks, always confuse all things Mississippi. On ESPN, Ole Miss gets called Mississippi State. Southern Miss gets called Ole Miss. Ole Miss gets called Ole Miss State. Sometimes it seems like […]
By Douglas W. Shanks “Howdy Pardners, I’ve been waiting for you!” – with that booming introduction from the man himself, I was face to face with a true American legend. I was stunned at the hugeness of the man; everything was gigantic. His hands were massive. He stood at least 6’4” and he had one […]
Jackson native and Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Doug Kenna, who died Jan. 28 at the age of 88, once achieved one of the greatest scholar-athlete years in college sports history. You could look it up. I did. This was the school year of 1944-45 and Kenna played his sports and took his classes at […]
The date was Oct. 17, 1970. It was a muggy day, unseasonably warm. I was a just-turned-18-year-old USM freshman writing sports for the Hattiesburg American, and I had just seen a miracle. Southern Miss, coached by second-year Golden Eagle coach P. W. “Bear” Underwood, had just stunned mighty Ole Miss 30-14 on the new artificial […]
We begin in the spring of 2001 with an eighth grade home room class from Terry making a field trip to the Mississippi Hall of Fame and Museum. Anthony Dixon, 13, steps up to the football touch-screen kiosk and taps up his hero Walter Payton. Along with films of Payton’s miraculous runs at Jackson State […]
Hall of Fame basketball coach Van Chancellor will be the keynote speaker at the C Spire Wireless Howell and Gillom Awards luncheon set for March 11 at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The Howell Trophy, which goes to the most outstanding men’s basketball player in Mississippi, is named for Bailey Howell, a […]
