Slimantics: Bulldogs’ ninth inning was a magical last game for the seniors at Dudy Noble Field

A baseball game, as everyone knows, is nine innings.

But on Sunday night, that format was altered. What you had, instead, was eight innings of baseball, followed by a Hallmark Channel movie.

Slimantics: For Bulldog fans, a long day’s journey into night

A group of men sat under the awning of an RV parked south of Dudy Noble Field, snacking, having a few adult beverages and listening to the radio as Arkansas laid the wood to Ole Miss, which met their approval, rivalries being what they are.

Slimantics: The men on the beaches

We have seen the images, read the history and watched depictions of what happened on June 6, 1944 as dawn broke over the dark waters of the north Atlantic and the artillery smoke hung heavy over the beaches of Normandy France.

Women’s Amateur to bring exposure to Old Waverly, Golden Triangle

If mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, as Noel Coward suggested, who goes out to a Mississippi golf course in August?

The finest women amateur golfers in the world, that’s who.

Slimantics: Bulldogs secure in their baseball tradition

Typically, when the Mississippi State baseball team wins a title at its home ballpark, fans linger long after the game to soak in the victory and to celebrate.

Sunday was an exception.

Slimantics: Mac is back as Bulldogs dump Central Michigan

STARKVILLE – It’s a common belief among Mississippi State fans that the Bulldogs will go as far in the NCAA baseball playoffs as their senior outfielder will take them.

Slimantics: Remember Bill Buckner

This weekend, Mississippi State hosts an NCAA baseball regional, welcoming teams from Southern University, Central Michigan and Miami to its spectacular ballpark, Dudy Noble Field.

An ‘extremely hard worker’: Golf Pro Tripp Pritchett added to staff at Lion Hills

In the world of golf, the word “hybrid” is used to describe golf club technology that combines the best qualities of irons and woods — the familiar swing mechanics of irons with the more forgiving nature and better distance of woods.

But at Lion Hills Golf Club in Columbus, the word “hybrid” is a pretty good description of the entire operation.

Lil’ Bill, smallest bull calf born alive, died Tuesday

Lil’ Bill, the tiny bull with a big following, has died.

MEMA appeal for federal aid to private property owners continues

Some delays are better than others.

Last week, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) was granted an extension on its planned appeal of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assessment that denied financial support for people who lost private property during the Feb. 23 tornado in Columbus.

Huddle House, guard cleared in West Point fight

A Clay County jury has ruled in favor of a local security guard and the company that owned a West Point restaurant in a lawsuit accusing them of allowing a 2014 altercation at Huddle House that left two men seriously injured and sent three others to prison.

Heritage takes MAIS All-Sports award for second straight year

Fast facts: Sean Harrison has been athletics director at Heritage Academy for three years. Prior to that, the Patriots had never won the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Class AAA All-Sports Trophy.

Keeping the meaning of Memorial Day: Local VFW, American Legion to place 800-plus flags by weekend

Of all cities, towns and villages in the United States, Columbus and Lowndes County should recognize the meaning of Memorial Day.

Monday profile: Morris finds calling to medicine, Mississippi

Dr. Andrea Morris has been playing the violin for most of her life, but with a busy workload of patients and two kids to attend to at home, she finds it hard to find the time to play.

100 Women Columbus raises nearly $13K

The organization has been around for only a month, but its name is already something of a misnomer.

On Friday, 100 Women Who Care Columbus closed nominations for charities and organizations for its initial cash award, having raised $100 donations each from 128 Lowndes County women.

Caledonia opens doors for contractors to bid on soccer lighting plan

The Caledonia mayor and aldermen discussed and debated plans to provide lighting for the town’s soccer fields at Ola J. Pickett Park for more than two hours in two separate meetings without adopting a plan.

Slimantics: A suggestion for Columbus’ bicentennial

Pretty soon, Columbus will be celebrating its bicentennial, although no one seems to have figured out exactly when that will be.

New Hope headed back to title series

PONTOTOC – Ever since Ryan Burt’s hard-luck 1-0 loss to Vancleave in last year’s state championship series, New Hope coach Lee Boyd has been waiting for his pitcher to take the next step.

Willie ‘Hoot’ West, 81, passes away after 52 years as constable

Earlier this year, before the qualifying deadline, Hoot West seemed conflicted about whether to run for a 14th term as District 1 constable in Lowndes County.

County to issue bonds for aging infrastructure at industrial park

For many, the history of Lowndes County Industrial Park begins with the arrival of Severstal, the steel plant now known as Steel Dynamics, Inc., in the mid-2000s.