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Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today’s sports columnist, was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in August 2017, joining many of the sports figures he has written about in 50-plus years covering Mississippi sports. He has been honored as Mississippi Sportswriter of the Year a record 10 times by the National Sports Media Foundation. Rick was executive director and historian of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and sports editor of The Clarion-Ledger before joining Mississippi Today. Reach Rick at [email protected]
James Ray Carpenter played golf for the first time at age 33. At 60, he was president of the Professional Golfers of America. His unlikely and rapid rise through the ranks of professional golf is a testament to his down-home Mississippi wit and wisdom.
Ole Miss scored in the first 11 seconds, but then powerful Alabama scored 62 unanswered points – and it could have been a whole, lot more.
No. 1 ranked Alabama is a 21-point favorite to defeat Ole Miss Saturday at Oxford. Does Ole Miss have a chance? The best answer is that 21-point underdogs win nearly every Saturday in college football. It happens.
The two Hawaiian quarterbacks, both recruited by former Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze, meet on the field in SEC country Saturday in a nationally televised game.
Details on taxable revenue will come later this month
Jack Cristil didn’t want to have a book done about him until he learned proceeds would go toward a scholarship in his name to worthy sports broadcasting students. He would love what has happened since.
Jack Abraham – with a lot of help from his friends including Quez Watkins – leads USM to a 55-7 trouncing of Jackson State in his Golden Eagle debut.
Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Southern Miss tackle the new gambling landscape head on in effort to prevent legalized wagering from negatively affecting their student-athletes
No telling what will happen when Jackson State plays Southern Miss for the third time ever Saturday. But the two teams will have an almost impossible time matching what happened 31 years ago when they met for the first time.
Casino operators say sports betting is an amenity they hope will attract more business to their properties. Five Mississippi casinos now offer sports wagering, but more are expected over next two weeks.
Arnold “Showboat” Boykin had a great career in one game for Ole Miss when he scored seven touchdowns in a single game against Mississippi State in 1951.
Rick Cleveland takes a look at sports betting at The Beau, Ole Miss hoops, an officiating legend named ‘Sarge’, a big transfer for State, and more.
Back in the 1990s when Greenwood’s Jim Gallagher, Jr. was winning PGA tournaments and Ryder Cup matches, his idol was the late Bruce Lietzke.
Two 31-year-old Mississippi guys, Brian Dozier and Lance Lynn, now positioned to help two of the most iconic franchises in baseball in their pennant runs.
Joe Walker, Jr. has coached Olympic medalists, world champions and more All Americans than he can count. That’s why he’ll be the first inductee ever to go into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame as strictly a track and field coach.