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Remembering Pistol Pete and Wondrous Wendell...

So, I was doing a podcast with a friend the other day, and he posed this: “Tell me the most amazing performance you’ve seen in sports in Mississippi that our listeners wouldn’t know much about…”

And so I told him about the first time I ever saw Pistol Pete Maravich play.

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Perfectly Imperfect

By Rick Cleveland, 2,182 Reads

If you were watching pro football Sunday, you probably saw 76-year-old Jimmy Johnson, the former two-time Super Bowl champion coach of the Dallas Cowboys, tearfully receive the news he has been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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A GOOD DAY IN HATTIESBURG

By Rick Cleveland, 2,050 Reads

Before Jan. 10, 1966, I lived in a virtually segregated vacuum in my hometown of Hattiesburg. The civil rights movement was happening all around me, and I was oblivious.

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College football- win, lose, or draw

By Rick Cleveland, 2,079 Reads

This is surreal. Mississippi college football, that is. Little more than a month ago, Matt Luke was the Ole Miss head football coach, trying to win the Egg Bowl with a fresh vote of confidence from the university’s administration.

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Southern Miss, MS State series tied at 14 wins each

By Rick Cleveland, 2,755 Reads

Mississippi State College and Mississippi Southern College first played one another in football in 1935.

Southern, as it was called then, hosted. State, coached by ex-Army coach Ralph Sasse, defeated Southern, coached by ex-Alabama football captain Pooley Hubert, 27-0.

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Colts QB is leaving the NFL at the top of his game.

By Rick Cleveland, 2,427 Reads

It was so shocking because it happens so seldom: An NFL superstar retiring at the top of his game.

Andrew Luck's retirement this past weekend from the Indianapolis Colts caught the football world off guard for so many reasons:

• Luck is one of the best in the world at what he did.

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CLEVELAND: What’s been the most amazing sports feat I’ve seen?

By Rick Cleveland, 2,142 Reads

Readers often ask: In all the years of writing sports what is the most amazing single athletic feat you have seen?

Good question. I have seen some stuff.

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Like Braves' Riley, MLB must make adjustments

By Rick Cleveland, 2,495 Reads

It is often said that baseball is a game of adjustments – and this is so true. Taking it a step further, baseball is an ever-evolving game of adjustments.

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CLEVELAND: College baseball has become big money biz; number of scholarships should reflect

By Rick Cleveland, 1,081 Reads

OMAHA—This is written from the College World Series where a packed house of more than 22,000 fans pays to watch each game at sparkling TD Ameritrade Park.

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CLEVELAND: Macon native uses power of education to succeed in life

By Rick Cleveland, 2,078 Reads

You want answers to Mississippi’s myriad problems of poverty, hunger and overall quality of life?

Education, education and education.

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