Class AA at age 19: Konnor Griffin takes another huge career step

The legend of 19-year-old Mississippi baseball phenom Konnor Griffin continues to grow and grow with each home run blast, each stolen base, each fielding gem,

Calm waters a cooling agent for the soul

The Boy had found a squarish little two-man boat behind the Old Man’s barn, and nothing would do until he could bring it to the

Coaches poll: Texas No. 1, Ole Miss No. 15, and that means absolutely nothing

​The USA Today college football coaches poll is out. Texas is ranked No. 1, defending champion Ohio State is No. 2, Ole Miss is 15th, and nine SEC teams are ranked in the Top 25. Now then, what all this means is…

…absolutely nothing. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

Practical gifts prove more valuable as lens to the past

The Old Man had taken the scissors apart and sharpened them on a whetstone by hand. Now they were put back together and oiled. They

Outdoors Feature: Angling Twins setting tournament world on fire

Dylan and Carter Nutt, twin brothers and competitive bass fishermen who’ve built quite a following on social media, say the best way to get started in the tournament game is to make a point to learn something new every time out.

Outdoors Column: Making Allowances for the unknown suffering of others key to good will

Making allowances for the unknown suffering of others key to good will

McCluster, Nix: 2 distinct backs, 2 Hall of Famers

Something will happen at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025 induction banquet Saturday night that may never have happened before. That is,

MAIS’ new playoff format could be an M-E-S-S. But it could also be a lot of fun

In early November, with relatively little fanfare, the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (MAIS), the governing body for private-school athletics in Mississippi, revolutionized its playoff

Former Bulldog Brayland Skinner still a blur as a Mud Monster

Four years and 15 days ago, in Omaha at the College World Series, Brayland Skinner was a human blur. The score was tied at three

Some burdens are much better left behind

The disease was called “lockjaw” by all who dreaded it, and we were all taught to dread it in our turn. Neither I nor anyone

Outdoors Column: Potholes part of life’s brutal redirection

It’s a rare traveler who can navigate through life without slamming into any potholes. Besides, I don’t know that such a trip would be worth taking.

Sports Column: Ripley’s Jake Moffitt pulls off a believe-it-or-not at golf State Am

Mississippi’s crop of elite young golfers has become so accomplished in recent years it takes something especially special to raise this longtime observer’s eyebrows.

A walk in the woods is always a fine time

The path wound upward, around rocks and out of sight, past deadfalls that lay steeply downhill, beside thickets of rhododendron carpeting mountainsides, past views that

George Richards is a hall of famer in life

You likely recall the ad campaign from a decade or so ago; beer commercials feature an aging but debonair character known as “The Most Interesting

This amazing Ole Miss golf story continues at this week’s U.S. Open

Mississippi’s most successful collegiate athletic program in the 2024-25 school year? It’s not close. That honor goes to the Ole Miss men’s golf team, and

The times they are a-changin’ for college sports

Come gather ‘round people, wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown Bob Dylan penned the lyrics to his 1964 folk

Don’t let the last chapter of Ole Miss’ season make you forget the story

We live in a world of absolutes. Sports, in particular, don’t allow for much gray area in this realm. Your team is either the very

On a day for right-handed aces, USM’s JB Middleton wins the Ferris

The newly refurbished Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Monday held a celebration of something Mississippians do as well as anyone anywhere. I am writing, of

Mississippi’s college baseball success goes far beyond the big schools

Magnolia State baseball fans know well the traditional hardball success of the three largest universities, a tradition that continues in the spring of 2025. Three

Bobby Halford passes ‘the master’ as state’s all-time leader in victories

April, 1985: Ronald Reagan was president. Bill Allain was Mississippi’s governor. John C. Stennis still represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate. Chicago Cubs second baseman