Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today’s sports columnist since 2016. His work as a syndicated columnist and celebrated sports writer has appeared in numerous magazines, periodicals and newspapers. Rick has authored four books and has been recognized 13 times as Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year.
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In women’s hoops, we suddenly have a real Mississippi rivalry
“That is what a rivalry game should look like.” Mississippi women’s basketball has rarely, if ever, looked like this before.
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Hall – a ‘Mississippi boy through and through’ – checks all the boxes at Southern Miss
Will Hall on Southern Miss: ‘I know the history there, I know you can win there, and I always felt like it would be a good fit for me.’
What makes a football town in Mississippi? Get your answer here – and at The Vet.
Why do some Mississippi towns produce football champions year after year, while others never do? Turns out, winning is habit forming. Winning begets winnings.
It’s Egg Bowl week (we think). Some observations and a guess…
It’s a fool’s errand to make any college football predictions in this craziest of seasons. The truth is, we don’t know for sure whether Mississippi State and Ole Miss will even play Saturday.
Health experts fear the start of Mississippi basketball season will spread COVID-19
Several teams in Mississippi have already seen major COVID-19 outbreaks –– including Ole Miss, which paused team activities for two weeks.
Alcorn’s Giles and Young, JSU’s Bacon join Black College Football Hall of Fame
SWAC standouts, all-pro football heroes after their college careers, will be inducted in Atlanta next June.
Marshall plane crash still resonates 50 years later, especially at Mississippi State
The ill-fated jet that crashed carrying the Marshall football team was set to pick up the Mississippi State Bulldogs later that night.
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