The Game of Golf and Life
Viking Classic Director (and former pro golfer) Randy Watkins had alwaystaught his son Thomas golf. But in 2004, the two began learning some new lessons together about the game of life.
When Randy Watkins was 15-years-old, he won the 1977 PGA National Junior Championship.
When his son Thomas was 15, the Watkins family wondered if the teen would ever play golf again.
Talk Football: Football For Moms
You're watching your son's football game, and you're clueless. It's time to consult local author Alice Nicholas, a football translator for moms and other motivated females.
Last August Nicholas published Talk Football, a football-for-moms book (replete with gorgeous watercolors!) that has Mississippi women breathing a sigh of relief.
Juniors Learn Golf at "The Wee Links"
For years, junior golfers have had to play when adults weren't on the golf course or to play with a parent. But some juniors don't have golfers for parents. And no junior golfer enjoys trying to learn a new shot or swing on a course while adults tap their feet behind, waiting to make their next shot.
The Wee Links at The Refuge in Flowood are a three-hole par-3 course with real putting greens. No adults are even allowed on the Wee Links without "child supervision."
The Story of Jackson's GRA-Y Football
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Perhaps no time in a boy’s life is the game played for purer reasonsthan in the elementary years, with its rampant chinstrap rash and first glimpses of stars.
In Mississippi, football would never have ascended to its high place without the YMCA’s GRA-Y program.
Here is Jackson’s story of youth football, the YMCA, and boys becoming men.
Successful Season for Southern Hurricanes
The Hurricanes recently won the USFA MS State Championship in Vicksburg, MS and the ASA Class “A” State Championship in Ridgeland, MS. In all of their other tournaments this year, the Hurricanes have finished 3rd place with 11 to 19 teams participating.
Mississippi's State Games
On this magical evening, sponsored by AT&T, extroverts wear silly hats; those more shy participants do their best to crack a smile as all eyes turn toward them. Scores of towns are represented. More than 5,000 athletes compete.
The rains moved east and a soft, evening glow floods Meridian’s downtown Dumont Plaza. Then the competitors emerge like nocturnal beings by the hundreds for Opening Ceremonies—tall, short, young, old. Many dress in their town’s or club’s colors. Wearing Mardi Gras beads or St. Paddy’s Day hats, citizens wave signs from anonymous, tiny towns.
The Comeback Kid: Brandon King
His over-and-under moves with asoccer ball are wicked; his quicknesscauses his body to bend when it cuts; and his right foot can fire a strike at the upper-90 from 30 yards—numerous times … in a row.
He smiles after making another shot, as if expecting the result. But at just under 5-feet-tall, he talks down his ability. “I just play for fun,” he says.
BIANCO BALL: A Family Affair
Mike Bianco’s favorite part of the baseball season has arrived.
After months of hard work and coaching, the Ole Miss Rebels’ head
baseball coach unfolds his lawn chair by the outfield foul line where he
can be anonymous.
World Series Strike-Out Forges World-Class Character
Former Ole Miss star Seth Smith, 25, stepped into the batter’s box last October 28 with the world watching him. Seth struck out to end the World Series. He now was a famous statistic.
Following Mississippi's Mapp
Homegrown Justin Mapp played youth sports in Mississippi like any other child, making friends and memories that accompany him around the globe as one of soccer’s elite players.
“I just loved sports in general,” Justin said from San Diego’s Home Depot Center, where he practices with the U.S. National Team. “I played basketball, baseball. I really liked them all. I thought soccer was a little special.”
A Softball Southern Belle?
A certain “sisterhood” develops on a girls’ softball team that is hard to match, the Story girls say. Young ladies learn to rely upon
each other.
All are beautiful. All are cultured. And all have game.
