Sports Column: In Round 5 of a grueling 18-round SEC slate, Mississippi State outlasts Ole Miss
There’s no such thing as a must-win game in mid-January of a Southeastern Conference basketball season that goes well into March. That doesn’t mean it can’t sometimes seem that way.
Realignment shuffles several basketball regions
When the MHSAA’s biennial reclassification and realignment was announced in November, I took a brief look at how it would impact certain area football teams
Spring in the outdoors lies just around the corner
In the spring, when my little girl was tiny and life was new, we sat in the wicker porch swing behind our house on Magnolia
Malik Dia’s emergence has lifted Ole Miss into the national spotlight
Back in mid-December, Ole Miss basketball coach Chris Beard joined Mississippi Today’s Crooked Letter Sports podcast to talk about his Rebels, who had won nine
Same old song and dance
With about four minutes left in Mississippi State’s 5-point loss to Kentucky Saturday night at Humphrey Coliseum, I felt that old familiar feeling creep in.
Outdoors Column: Walks unspoiled fill in the wrinkles of the mind
Once upon a time, the Boy and I walked in cool shadows and warm sunshine on a day before the hard cold arrived, over sharp hills and foot bridges, past a bubbling spring and under great outcroppings of rock that drew his full attention. It was a good start to a New Year that lies now long ago.
The best teams money can buy
As the old saying goes, “You get what you pay for.” While that axiom is certainly true when it comes to tires, tools and shoes,
Outdoors Feature: Hunter’s buck puts magic touch onto mystery
The buck that stepped out in front of Matt Ellis, 16, this past Tuesday afternoon changed a somber, peaceful sit into an adrenaline-charged, heart-pounding experience in a simple flash of brown. It ended a two-year investigative quest pursued with only the scantest of evidence and confirmed a passion nurtured since the young man’s earliest days.
Outdoors Column: Time in the field forms an arc, not a circle
In the silence that came as darkness fell, the Old Man looked back on his time so far and could not suppress a smile.
A spectator’s guide to the College Football Playoff, part 2
Much like that made-from-scratch pie crust or some-assembly-required Christmas present, things didn’t go according to plan during Round 1 of the College Football Playoff. The
Time for reflection means more than just glance in mirror
Rain dripped from bare pecan limbs as gray clouds tumbled across a December sky. Walking down the driveway, I caught whiffs of woodsmoke on the wind as it tore across our chimney top and whistled through the trees.
Group canoes Mississippi River full length of state
The Mississippi River is a unique creature. It’s an inland sea perpetually on the move. It drains a continent. It gathers other great rivers into
Ole Miss and Mississippi State basketball teams are terrific, and they better be in this SEC
Don’t look now, but Mississippi boasts two superb college basketball teams. State and Ole Miss both have won 10 of their first 11 games. Both
A spectator’s guide to the College Football Playoff
All of the world’s great forces – cultural, social and corporate – seem to be conspiring to ruin college football. Under siege from constant legal
At Southern Miss, the Huff hire looks good from every angle
Charles Huff will be the first Black head football coach at Southern Miss, but there’s another “first” for Huff that’s more impressive, if not more
No matter the venue, key of conversation remains the same
A duck blind, it turns out, can be anything you say it is. Sometimes they’re just as the term would indicate – a bit of
Outdoors Feature: Best list of outdoor loot compiled with any enthusiast in mind
Wool socks, flannel blankets, high-performance camo clothing and handy tools galore top the suggested gifts list for those shopping for hunting and fishing enthusiasts this year.
Outdoors Column: Christmas gifts when they’re small yield much larger memories later on
They ran downstairs, feet slipping across carpet thanks to footed pajamas, grinning with expressions of delight at a small pile of childhood happiness. They took in the loot Santa had left them with bright, wide-eyed faces, happy shrieks and unvarnished delight
Outdoors Column: The best-earned rewards are always more meaningful
The mountainside fell down from a rocky peak and into a long, narrow valley.
Sports Column: Exploring all the many facets of Mississippi College’s decision to end football
Monday’s news that Mississippi College – soon to be Mississippi Christian University – will no longer field a football team seemed to come out of nowhere. “Shocking” is the word many have used to describe the news.
County to start paying SPD for animal control assistance
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