Ole Miss, State, Southern Miss golfers to host ‘special’ Fallen Oak Invitational
College golf takes center stage this weekend at Fallen Oak, the Beau Rivage casino’s hidden treasure in the otherwise sleepy community of Saucier, a few miles from the sandy beaches of Gulfport and Biloxi.
Sports Column: Washington State’s 2,000-mile trip is par for course in college sports today
The Washington State Cougars are flying more than 2,000 miles across the continent to play Ole Miss Saturday for what will be the Rebels’ homecoming game. That’s a long, long way to travel for what appears to be a gross mismatch.
Sports Column: Different kind of clubbing takes us deep into the outdoors
Hunting clubs exist in all shapes and sizes and, like families, can fall into dysfunction or rise from it depending on their leadership. Rather than an experiment in democracy then, it follows that many of the best and longest-lasting clubs are governed in the style of a benevolent dictatorship.
Outdoors Column: Sometimes toughing it out is the dumbest thing to do
If you’re going to be dumb, you’ve got to be tough, or so the old saying goes.
For much of Saturday, it seemed like 2014 all over again in Mississippi
For a while Saturday, it looked as if we might be stepping back in time — at least where Mississippi college football is concerned. Back to 2014. Remember?
Dog IQ depends heavily on the dog’s person
I’m always impressed by the logic that grades dogs on an intelligence scale, because it seems obvious to me such scales are more about dogs doing what the person making the scale wants than anything.
D.D. Lewis: He was a football hero, but he was much more than that
D.D. Lewis, the great football linebacker, will be remembered at Mississippi State as one of the university’s most beloved athletes who happened to play on some of the school’s most abysmal teams.
Don’t be surprised if Rebs’ Trinidad sets a trend in college football
If you watched Ole Miss out-score Arkansas 41-35 Saturday night, you know this: Rebel quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, a transfer Division II from Ferris (Michigan) State, can play. He is the real deal. He can run. He can throw. He has the “it” factor.
Outdoors Column: Ducks cooked with skin on reflect appreciation
The Boy fell into the joys and miseries of duck hunting long before he had regular access, or any other kind of access, to private land that held ducks, and so he began earning the lifetime of amazing waterfowl hunting that lay ahead. Along the way, there would be hard days here and there.
Outdoors Column: Sometimes our memories happened to other people
It’s early butterfly season and very late firefly season so, while the two briefly overlap, I occasionally drive past the house my little girl called home when she truly was one.
Mississippi State’s upset of No. 12 Arizona State tops a long day of college football
These weary eyes watched football — all or parts of four games — morning, noon and night Saturday. I have some thoughts. First, this: What
For the first time in forever, it feels good to be a Bulldog
On average, I think about Mike Leach once a day. I think about what he did for Mississippi State and college football and how fans
It’s still early September, but we’ve already got huge college football games
We are still in the first week of September, and Mississippi’s largest football-playing universities all face really meaningful games Saturday. Let’s take a look.
Outdoors Feature: Season opener great for enthusiasm, key for safety
Dove season in Mississippi opens Sept. 1, and hunters of every stripe will be applying lots of pent up enthusiasm in pursuit of the birds. Take extra care to make sure you and everyone associated with you remains safe on the occasion.
Outdoor Column: Best of boredom encourages exploration of worlds, words
If necessity is the mother of invention, I think boredom is the father of discovery, at least in the area of finding new writers to read. That goes along with the codicil that says any task can be accomplished provided there’s another more important task you’re supposed to be doing instead. That’s how I found James Thurber.
Sports Column: Deion who? T.C. Taylor is the top cat now at Jackson State
When Deion Sanders left Jackson State for Colorado in December of 2023, many observers predicted a Humpty Dumpty-like fall for the proud JSU Tiger football program.
Going Bananas
Consider me a skeptic. If you’re a parent with a baseball-crazed child of a certain age, you likely found yourself at Dudy Noble Field on
Outdoors Feature: Freezer cleanout pulls many methods
If you’re emptying your freezer in preparation for the whitetail season to come, a few great preparation methods are all it takes to supply the meat for any of the thousands of recipes available online.
Rick Cleveland: Brandon’s Rachel McAlpin swims to world championship in Romania
You, as I, might wonder how it feels to win a world championship at age 17. That’s what Mississippian Rachel McAlpin did Wednesday winning the 50-meter breaststroke gold medal at the World Junior Swimming Championships in Otopeni, Romania, nearly 6,000 miles from her hometown of Brandon.
Outdoors column: Reasonable care may be only cure we need
The camp chef was making his version of jalapeño poppers, using breast meat from Canada geese.
County to start paying SPD for animal control assistance
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