by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 28, 2023 Different league, same result. Scott Berry’s Southern Miss Golden Eagles have won another championship. Southern Miss defeated the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns 6-2 Sunday at Montgomery Sunday in the championship game of the...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 25, 2023 Ole Miss slugger Kemp Alderman won the 2023 Boo Ferriss Trophy as Mississippi’s most outstanding college baseball player, as chosen by Major League scouts and college coaches. As is almost always the case in these...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Toughness, grit and playing with pain are terms we usually associate with the manly sport of football. Here Thursday, at the Mississippi High School Softball State Championships, is living, limping proof that those...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 17, 2023 Back when 60-year-old Scott Berry was a younger coach at Southern Miss — and long before the grass baseball field was replaced with artificial turf — he would spend long hours making sure the field was immaculate....
Rick Cleveland You’ve got the severe scholarship limits: 11.7, spread among 27 players. You’ve got the uncertainty of who will be chosen – and how high – in the Major League draft. You’ve got the fragility of pitching arms: an elbow here, a shoulder there, and you’re...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 9, 2023 Twenty-four-year-old professional golfer Wilson Furr, from Jackson, made national news two times recently for all together different reasons. Stay with me here. As so often happens in the perplexing sport of golf, this...
