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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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Sports column: Huskey signs off as the voice of St. Al football

Dailon Huskey has spent most of his adult life listening to music for a living. He’s been a ...

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Sports Column: Ready to make new memories with NCAA Football 25

Let me tell you a little story about Brian Austin, the best college football player you couldn’t possibly ...

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Sports column: Linking to the past with Immaculate Grid

Have you ever heard of George Metkovich? How about Muddy Ruel? Roger Peckinpaugh or Stuffy McInnis ring a ...

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Sports column: Thoughts on why July 4 is so awesome

Because of vacations and holidays I’ve been trying this summer to write a handful of columns in advance, ...

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Sports column: A new and confusing era in college sports begins July 1

We’re just a few days away from the end of college sports as we’ve known it, and the ...

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Sports column: T-shirt is a reminder of the effort put into Red Carpet Bowl

The humble Red Carpet Bowl T-shirt is a fashion staple in Vicksburg. They’re easily obtained — many wind ...

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Sports column: Kentucky can be Mississippi’s team for the College World Series

We’ve gotten a little spoiled around here when it comes to college baseball in mid-to-late June. Mississippi State, ...

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Sports column: Small, empty stadiums are a TV treat

One of the great joys of watching sports on TV — for me, at least — is not ...

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Sports column: A year full of Athletes of the Week

There’s an old picture that pops up in my Facebook feed from time to time, snapped by local ...

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Sports column: It was a week filled with special moments

Part of the magic of sports is how it can bring cities and communities together. When a local ...

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Sports column: Playoff baseball in mid-May? It’s been way too long

After he threw a three-hit shutout to clinch Warren Central’s second-round baseball playoff series victory against Saltillo, Maddox ...

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Sports column: Here’s hoping Warren County’s track championship streak continues

Airport Road is a main north-south thoroughfare in Rankin County. Also known as Mississippi 475, it runs for ...

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Sports column: Pondering some random thoughts, from Hither to Yon

This has been a busy stretch for Warren County sports. All four high schools have played, or are ...

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Sports column: We have built it, and now they are coming

Over the past decade, major investments were made in Warren County to upgrade the area’s sports facilities. A ...

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Sports column: Take one last chance to appreciate the M-Braves before they’re gone

As a society, we tend to take certain things for granted. Water will flow when we turn on ...

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