By Rick Cleveland Mississippi Today The Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA), the governing body of the state’s public schools athletics, begins its 100th year of...
The term “sports dynasty” brings to mind several teams in several sports over the years. The Yankees – as in “Break up the Yankees” – will...
What I remember most about Darryl Strawberry’s one summer in Jackson was the explosive sound of his bat launching the baseball. It was shocking, really, no...
Any other year, Mississippi State’s run-away fire hydrant of a running back, Josh Robinson, would be slam-dunk favorite for the C Spire Conerly Trophy. Robinson has...
The New Orleans Saints — Mississippi’s NFL team by just about any measure — open the season Sunday at Atlanta. First things first: These guys in...
The ritual that is Mississippi high school football begins again this week. It begins in the heat and humidity of August and extends to the usually...
Poet Robert Frost could have been writing about William Chism, a Ridgeland 21-year-old, when he penned these words in The Road Not Taken 94 years ago:...
ESPN’s NFL draft guru Mel Kiper, Jr., gave the New Orleans Saints a relatively low C-plus for their work in last weekend’s proceedings. If you think...
Greatest single athletic feat in Mississippi history? In 1960, Laurel’s Ralph Boston broke Jesse Owens’ last world record with a long jump of 26 feet, 11...
Mississippi’s college baseball teams, collectively, are enjoying still another banner season and candidates for the 2014 C Spire Ferriss Trophy are plentiful. The proof is in...