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Sports Column: Jackson State to hold free youth baseball clinic at Key City Park
In baseball, as in life, bad bounces happen and send things in an unexpected direction. If you stay ...
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Sports Column: Preparing for a busy day on the track
When I was a much younger and less grizzled sports writer, the state high school track and field ...
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Sports Column: Let’s all keep playing as long as possible
There’s an old joke among grizzled sports writers that once your last local team is knocked out of ...
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Sports Column: Former Alcorn coach wants to get Vicksburg’s kids moving
Jenna Wallace described her latest project, which includes children’s games like red light-green light and lots of running ...
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Sports Column: Hard work, compassion on display at softball games
It’s easy to get cynical about sports from time to time. Money has turned pro and college sports ...
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Sports Column: It’s time to apply for the Red Carpet Bowl scholarships
One of Vicksburg’s signature sports events is the Red Carpet Bowl. For 62 years and counting the event ...
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Sports Column: Vicksburg is running straight into spring
Vicksburg has accumulated quite a few nicknames over the years like the River City and Red Carpet City. ...
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Sports column: Flag football would bring a new wrinkle to football season
There’s an old joke in the South that there are two seasons — football season, and spring football ...
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Sports Column: What’s good, Vicksburg?
I absolutely love lists. They range from the fun, like ranking the best movies or songs, to the ...
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Sports Column: Finding the time to exercise in winter is difficult
Like a lot of people, I made a New Year’s resolution to exercise more, lose a little weight, ...
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Sports Column: Battling the cold during soccer season
Over the span of 26 years at The Vicksburg Post I’ve written a lot of feature stories. One ...
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Sports Column: ‘Meaningless’ bowls still provided plenty of fun moments
With the introduction of the College Football Playoff, there has been plenty of talk of the traditional second-tier ...
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Sports Column: Some football thoughts for New Year’s
It’s the last weekend of 2024, and we’re just a few days away from 2025. This is the ...
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Sports Column: It’s time for The Post’s All-County football team
It’s that magical time of year, when the weather turns cold, everyone gets a little more jolly, and ...
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Sports Column: Huff’s hire at USM is notable for what wasn’t mentioned
Sometimes, cultural change is sudden and seismic. A single, major event occurs that shifts the landscape in a ...
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Sports Column: New match-up is the Red Carpet Bowl’s latest evolution
Throughout its 62-year existence, the Red Carpet Bowl has always managed to adapt to the times to survive. ...
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Sports Column: Hunting season brings good food and photos
Growing up as a city boy in a non-hunting family, I was well into adulthood before eating venison ...
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Sports Column: A 26-year run of sideline safety comes to a muddy end
One of the biggest occupational hazards of covering sports for a living, as well as one of the ...
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Sports Column: Anderson, Brown are players we can be proud of
This thing we enjoy called sports can make you cynical and beat the joy out of you in ...
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Sports column: Warren Central to celebrate its rich football history with Night of Champions event
Before every Warren Central football home game, the scroll of messages on the video board includes a list ...
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Sports Column: Pete Rose’s complicated legacy shown in long-ago visit to Vicksburg
One of the perks, if you want to call it that, of being in the media is that ...
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Sports column: It’s so hard to say goodbye
She purred, softly, and her head rested on my shoulder as I held her in my arms one ...
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Sports Column: Tracking down Vicksburg’s college football players
For a few days every summer, I trade my sports editor’s fedora — complete with the little “news” ...
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Sports Column: Welcome to Year Three of the Athlete of the Week contest
Whenever a TV show returns for another season, or continues a multi-part episode, it usually starts with an ...
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Sports Column: The Vicksburg Post’s football preview issue is a great tradition to uphold
Like most sports editors around the country, one of the many tasks I’m assigned each year is to ...
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Sports Column: Creating a cover is quite a conundrum
One of the biggest challenges in putting together The Vicksburg Post’s annual “Playmakers” football preview magazine is deciding ...
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Sports Column: Hot weather could cause Red Carpet Bowl changes again
Last August, an unprecedented heat wave caused a last-minute change to the Red Carpet Bowl that caught people ...
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Sports Column: It’s too hot for ‘fall’ practice
Football teams across the country, at every level from high school to college to the NFL, have started ...
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