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Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today’s sports columnist since 2016. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor’s in journalism, Rick has worked for the Monroe (La.) News Star World, Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. He was sports editor of Hattiesburg American, executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. His work as a syndicated columnist and celebrated sports writer has appeared in numerous magazines, periodicals and newspapers. Rick has been recognized 12 times as Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year, and is recipient of multiple awards and honors for his reporting and writing.
Will we have a 2020 college football season? If so, in what form? The truth is nobody knows and anybody who tells you they know is simply lying. What we are going through now is not without precedent
For 10 years, Cathead Distillery has been producing small-batch liquors, primarily vodka. Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the company has switched to hand sanitizer production.
After three years as a walk-on and on the verge of graduation, Mississippi State’s Tate Clayton wins a most unique scholarship.
When March turns to April is at least one sports writer’s favorite time of the year on the sports calendar. He never realized how much he loved it until, this year, the games have ceased.
Kennedy was a natural as a basketball commentator, but, clearly, he prefers the fast-paced pressure cooker that is coaching.
If Matt Guidry’s Southern Miss career is over – and it doesn’t have to be – it ends with 72 consecutive games of reaching base safely
Pearl River men’s basketball Wildcats were 28-0 and top-seeded in a national championship tournament that will never happen.
Ben Howland: “I’ll never forget that, having to look guys like Tyson Carter and Reggie Perry in the eyes and tell them it’s over, seeing the pain in their faces”
In effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, public schools have curtailed athletics, fine arts competition and practice through March 29. Private schools have postponed athletic competition for the week and will reassess weekly.
With the grim news of the day, we need diversions now more than ever. Sports, as FDR once reminded us, can provide much-needed diversion and some sense of normalcy in times of crisis.
These last nine days of seemingly endless adulation have been pretty heady stuff for a guy who usually spends his time washing and drying other people’s socks and jocks.
Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis Jr. calls it “ridiculous” that State hasn’t already claimed a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
The MHSAA state basketball championships moved to Oxford after a long, long run in Jackson. The move has earned smashing reviews from coaches, players, fans – and at least one veteran sports writer
History will be made Thursday when Mississippi’s high school state championship games move from Mississippi Coliseum to The Pavilion at Ole Miss, marking the first time in more than half a century the championships haven’t been decided in the so-called Big House.
At Mississippi State, Vic Schaefer has made rebuilding a graduation-decimated team more like reloading an annual powerhouse