Ranking area high schools’ top 5 linebackers
My high school football position rankings resume with a look at the area’s top five linebackers.
Help at the dressing table takes many shapes, forms
Water from the hose made the big enamel pan ring with a sound that said another night’s work was done.
Better later than Sooner? That sure seems true for Oklahoma baseball
Oklahoma’s baseball Sooners turned out to be the Oklahoma Laters and perhaps the best illustration ever of the old saying that late is far better than never.
Rick Cleveland: Here’s to Father’s Day, and one Ace of a dad
Sunday was Father’s Day, and just like everyone else, I have one. My father, Robert Hayes “Ace” Cleveland, died just over 31 years ago.
Kevin Tate: Boat keeps its story to itself in ongoing, unbroken line
We put in from a muddy side road with easy access to the water, then ran down the Tombigbee at a comfortable pace. River levels were up from a recent rain but not dangerously so.
Little to be learned from second kick of mule
The second time I helped the guys load their gear into the boat, unstrap and get launched, I began to get the idea they hadn’t learned anything from the morning before. When I saw them coming the third time, I knew I was right.
He has run marathons in all 50 states, and you won’t believe what’s next for Mike Knobler
These fingers last typed about my good friend and former Clarion Ledger co-worker Mike Knobler in February of 2022.
There will never be anything like the Athens Super Regional
Growing up, college baseball was never at the forefront of my mind.
Best days always those currently at hand
We sat on the porch and looked at the flower pot we had moved. In it bloomed small, yellow flowers. Droplets of water hung from the wispy leaves of green that sprouted along their stems.
Calculating value of instruction depends on point of view
The Old Man trudged through the shallow pond, carefully keeping the wooden handle at his end of the net upright and the lines between us fairly tight, guiding the bottom through the mud and turning the seine in an arc.
Calculating value of instruction depends on point of view
The Old Man trudged through the shallow pond, carefully keeping the wooden handle at his end of the net upright and the lines between us fairly tight, guiding the bottom through the mud and turning the seine in an arc.
Mississippi: The Diamond State, with wins in baseball and softball at all levels
If Mississippi ever decides to move away from its official nickname – The Magnolia State – here’s a suggestion: The Diamond State.
Mississippi State softball will face Texas oil money and the sport’s richest pitcher
This history-making Mississippi State softball team already has written a fascinating story, lifting an often largely ignored sport in the Magnolia State’s headlines.
Dr. Dan Jones recalls introducing North Koreans to football, The Grove and all things Hotty Toddy
Today’s column comes to you compliments of a chapter in Dr. Dan Jones’ new memoir “Medical Missionary,” an intriguing read I much enjoyed.
‘An underdog is still a dog’: Mississippi State does it again
Put it on the T-shirts. Splash it across social media. Paste it on every billboard from Starkville to Oklahoma City.
Catching takes precedence over present when presented
The Boy knelt on the boat’s carpeted floor. Plastic fibers dug into his bare knee.
Belhaven’s Charles Rugg: Proof that big-time coaches don’t always reach the big time
Charles Rugg, a Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer who died Thursday at the age of 94, might well have been the best basketball coach 99.9% of the world’s basketball fans never heard of.
Consistency is a virtue worth cultivating while trouble brews
The Old Man who’d taken charge of the cooking liked a specific brand of loaf bread, he said, because it was consistent.
Doug Hutton: 101 points in one day of basketball. That’s just part of his amazing story
Doug Hutton of Clinton and Mississippi State was surely one of the most gifted and versatile athletes in Mississippi history.
Five full senses lend sixth to lessons of long ago
The Old Man held a hook in two fingers of his left hand, having lifted it from a bulk box labeled “Mustad, 3/0.”
County to start paying SPD for animal control assistance
July 8, 2025
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