Mississippi Culture
Biloxi’s Bob Morrison: a half-miler, a nuclear engineer and a Grammy-winning song writer
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Former Mississippi State track athlete chose song writing over nuclear engineering, and he has made his mark many times over in Nashville.
Coronavirus in Mississippi
While others delay or cancel football over COVID-19 fears, state’s private schools will play ball soon
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Public schools are waiting until Sept. 4 for season openers, but some private schools will play football within the next couple weeks.
Sports
SEC’s announced 10-game, league-only schedule is simply a best case scenario
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If you lay a map of the Southeastern Conference’s 11-state imprint over a map of the U.S. region hardest hit by the pandemic, there’s not a whole lot of difference.
Sports
57 years ago, the late Stan Hindman, a Renaissance man, made a play for the ages
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Former Ole Miss and San Francisco 49ers star, who died this month, became a renowned architect in the San Francisco area.
Sports
SWAC football move to spring causes ramifications – both financial and otherwise
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Alcorn State was supposed to open the season at Auburn with Alcorn receiving a guarantee of $475,000. That’s huge chunk of Alcorn’s $6.5 million athletic budget.
Sports
Two inimitable Mississippi voices never to be forgotten: Elvis and Jack Cristil
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Mississippi legends Elvis Presley, born in Tupelo and lived in Memphis, and Jack Cristil, born in Memphis and lived in Tupelo, got together once for what Cristil described as his worst-ever interview.
Sports
When can we play high school and college football? No good answers exist.
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Officials at the high school and college levels are struggling to develop plans to play football this fall as the coronavirus pandemic grips the nation.
Sports
Senator Tommy Tuberville? Will they carry him to Washington, D.C. in a pine box?
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Polling has former Ole Miss football coach Tommy Tuberville – who is from Arkansas and has lived recently in Florida – as the favorite to become the next U.S. Senator from Alabama.
Mississippi Culture
An Independence Day story of two vets who made Hattiesburg their second home
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Nick Kolinsky helped stranger and World War II veteran Jack Lucas and created a lasting friendship and legacy in Hattiesburg.
Sports
For not the first time, sports has helped Mississippians see their way to change
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“…weirdly, in this time when the pandemic has placed our sports world on pause, sports have led the way to dramatic change in Mississippi.”
Mississippi State Flag
Many coaches, but just one message: It’s time for Mississippi to change its state flag.
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Dozens of Mississippi college coaches delivered the same message Thursday morning at the Capitol: Change the Mississippi flag. Now.
Mississippi State Flag
Sports has taught us much in Mississippi. Now it unites many of us over the state flag.
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Recent actions by the NCAA, Southeastern Conference and Conference USA would ban championship sporting events from the state because of the state flag.
Mississippi State Flag
No more C-USA post-season events in Miss. until the state flag is changed
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Mississippi will not host another Conference USA championship until the state flag is changed.
Mississippi State Flag
Mike Bianco: State flag debate ‘bigger than baseball, bigger than hosting NCAA regionals’
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Mississippi coaches and athletic directors are united: The Mississippi state flag, which features the Confederate battle emblem, should change.
Mississippi State Flag
Sports pressure shouldn’t be needed to inspire leaders to change the state flag. But it might just happen.
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Sports pressures grow as lawmakers debate changing the state flag, but leaders don’t need that pressure to do the right thing.