The Best Year Ever?
If you're not a fan of the SEC, you may not want to read this column. It will make you nauseous. Wait a minute! If you’re not a SEC fan, what are you doing on this website reading my column? Are you lost?

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The 164th Time is a Charm for Dufner
There are some of us on this planet who believe that things, both good and bad, happen for a reason. Divine intervention? Maybe.

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NFL Draft Turns Into SEC Media Days
Ninety minutes before the start of the three-day NFL draft, and I’m totally into my pre-event mode in Radio City Music Hall last Thursday night. So here I am at my first NFL draft, deep in thought, when I hear a voice to my right.

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SEC Traditions: Herschel Never Stops Running
Former Georgia Heisman Trophy-running back Herschel Walker turned 50 years old on March 2. Makes you feel old, doesn’t it? It doesn’t make Herschel feel old. The man that many people consider the greatest football player in Southeastern Conference history – “I don’t think you can ever say who’s the greatest,” says Herschel – still a rockhard 6-1, 225, who looks like he could carry the ball 30 times a game.

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McClain Reached for Stars with Feet on Ground
Katrina McClain’s dream as a child was to be in a court, not on a court.

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5/14/2012
The Best Year Ever?
If you're not a fan of the SEC, you may not want to read this column. It will make you nauseous. Wait a minute! If you’re not a SEC fan, what are you doing on this website reading my column? Are you lost? Full Story

5/4/2012
The 164th Time is a Charm for Dufner
There are some of us on this planet who believe that things, both good and bad, happen for a reason. Divine intervention? Maybe. Full Story

4/30/2012
NFL Draft Turns Into SEC Media Days
Ninety minutes before the start of the three-day NFL draft, and I’m totally into my pre-event mode in Radio City Music Hall last Thursday night. I’ve covered about 25 men’s Final Fours, four women’s Final Fours, three Summer Olympics, the NBA Finals, two NBA all-star games, the NBA draft, the NBA playoffs, three Super Bowls, probably 50 bowl games, eight BCS national championships, every SEC football championship game, all but two SEC men’s basketball tournaments and a Heisman Trophy presentation. So here I am at my first NFL draft, deep in thought, when I hear a voice to my right. Full Story

4/23/2012
Herschel Never Stops Running
Former Georgia Heisman Trophy-running back Herschel Walker turned 50 years old on March 2. Makes you feel old, doesn’t it? It doesn’t make Herschel feel old. The man that many people consider the greatest football player in Southeastern Conference history – “I don’t think you can ever say who’s the greatest,” says Herschel – still a rockhard 6-1, 225, who looks like he could carry the ball 30 times a game. Full Story

4/12/2012
McClain Reached for Stars with Feet on the Ground
Katrina McClain’s dream as a child was to be in a court, not on a court. Full Story

3/29/2012
Tennessee country boy Delk forever a Kentucky blueblood
Tony Delk was never built like a pit bull, but he played like one. Full Story

3/22/2012
Chancellor Went from Cotton Picker to Hall of Famer
Once upon a time in 1966, Van Chancellor was a 22-year-old eighth grade boys basketball coach at Noxapater (Miss.) High who also taught five math classes and coached football and track for a tidy annual salary of $4,800. Full Story

3/14/2012
Once A Sharp Shooter, Thurman Now Enjoys Assists
Scotty Thurman lived the dream of hitting the game-winning shot in the biggest college basketball game on the planet. “No time to think, shot clock running down, it felt good when I shot it,” says Scotty of the rainbow 22-foot three-pointer with 51 seconds left that broke a 70-70 tie with Duke and gave the Hogs an eventual 76-72 victory in the 1994 NCAA finals in Charlotte, N.C. Then, he lived through the nightmare of having his NBA dreams erased in a blink, cut after five preseason games, never to get another shot at the league. Full Story

3/7/2012
Top Kat Kyle Made UK Hoops A Macy's Day Parade
If somebody asked me to pick the best basketball player in the University of Kentucky’s stored history, the first thing I’d do besides buy a big bottle of Advil is to ponder the consistent characteristics of the best UK players over the years. Kentucky’s stars haven’t necessarily been the biggest, the fastest and the strongest, even though Wildcats’ greats from every decade since Ralph Beard was UK’s first Associated Press first-team all-American in 1948 could easily fit in those categories. Full Story

2/28/2012
Johnny Comes Marching Home
Johnny Neumann stood in the tunnel leading to the Tad Smith Coliseum basketball court last Saturday, feeling a tinge of nervousness. Waiting to be introduced to the crowd during a time out at the Rebels-LSU game, Johnny, now 61, was on the spot where he hadn’t stood in 42 years. Full Story

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Ron Higgins Bio

• Ron Higgins of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis has covered the SEC for more than 30 years.

• He’s a 1979 graduate of LSU and son of former LSU sports information director Ace Higgins.

• He is a past president of the Football Writers Association of America and an eight-time honoree as the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Writer of the Year.

• Working for The Commercial Appeal, Tiger Rag Magazine, the Shreveport Times, the Shreveport Journal, the Morning Advocate in Baton Rouge and the Mobile Register, he has won more than 150 national, regional and state writing awards. He has also written and co-written two books.

• Higgins is married to the former Paige Blanchard, also an LSU graduate, and has two sons, Carl, a Southeastern Louisiana University graduate who is serving in the military, and Jack, a high school student.

The Best Year Ever?

The 164th Time is a Charm for Dufner

NFL Draft Turns Into SEC Media Days

SEC Traditions: Herschel Never Stops Running

McClain Reached for Stars with Feet on Ground

Ron Higgins Bio