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Sports Column: Drew Brees leaves an unforgettable Saints legacy. The story started in Jackson.
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,01/19/21-10:55AM , 2,545 Reads 45,855 Statewide
You’ve probably heard this said many different ways by many different football players, coaches and announcers. To me, Archie Manning said it best long ago after he won NFC Offensive Player of the Year and he told me, “Just remember, the quarterback always gets too much credit and too much blame.”
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In women’s hoops, we suddenly have a real Mississippi rivalry
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,01/12/21-11:22AM , 2,521 Reads 63,044 Statewide
Don’t look now, but we suddenly have a competitive Ole Miss-Mississippi State women’s basketball rivalry. At last.
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His name is Carson, he lives in Raymond, and he will officiate the national championship
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,01/11/21-9:56AM , 2,590 Reads 66,067 Statewide
When Hinds County resident Fulton Carson takes the field Monday night for college football’s national championship game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, it is quite possible that no participant will have come further.

We’re not talking miles here.
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Sports Talk: Devoted friends to the end
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,10/21/20-4:12PM , 3,244 Reads 96,586 Statewide
Baseball Hall of Famer Whitey Ford, the stylish, left-handed pitcher who died October 8 at age 91, pitched in a remarkable 498 Major League games, all for his beloved New York Yankees.
The catcher for Ford’s last game in 1967? He would be Jake Gibbs, the Ole Miss football legend from Grenada.
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