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Remembering Pistol Pete and Wondrous Wendell...

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On Wed, 04/22/2020 - 07:52 PM

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.

Perfectly Imperfect

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On Wed, 01/15/2020 - 02:37 PM

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.

A GOOD DAY IN HATTIESBURG

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On Wed, 01/08/2020 - 05:18 PM

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.

College football- win, lose, or draw

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On Wed, 01/08/2020 - 02:18 PM

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.

Southern Miss, MS State series tied at 14 wins each

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On Thu, 09/05/2019 - 01:24 PM

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.

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

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On Thu, 08/29/2019 - 01:55 PM

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.

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

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On Wed, 07/17/2019 - 02:56 PM

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.

Like Braves' Riley, MLB must make adjustments

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On Wed, 07/03/2019 - 12:54 PM

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.

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

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On Wed, 06/19/2019 - 12:02 PM

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.

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

By Rick Cleveland, READ MORE > 1,299 Reads
On Wed, 06/12/2019 - 11:52 AM

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

Education, education and education.

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