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Majors made mark in Mississippi, too
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,06/11/20-12:00PM , 2,457 Reads
Johnny Majors, an All-American football player at Tennessee and a championship-winning coach at Pittsburgh and Tennessee, had many Mississippi connections and friends.
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Fourcade has his memories, battle scars
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,06/04/20-10:25AM , 3,003 Reads
This was January, 1990, and John Fourcade was the crown prince of New Orleans. Rex, King of Carnival, had nothing on him. The former Ole Miss star and New Orleans native had come off the bench to lead his hometown New Orleans Saints to three straight victories to end the 1989 season.
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RIP: Gentle Ben Williams, who broke football color line at Ole Miss and became ‘Colonel Rebel’
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,05/28/20-10:49AM , 4,554 Reads
They called him Gentle Ben. But Jim Carmody, who coached history-making, trail-blazing Ben Williams at both Ole Miss and then the Buffalo Bills, would like to expound on that nickname.
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Baseball humbled Jordan
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,05/21/20-10:54AM , 3,308 Reads
We reached the part in Michael Jordan’s “The Last Dance” in which Jordan – at age 31 and having not played baseball in 14 years – leaves the Chicago Bulls to try to make the Major Leagues.
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