Wuerffel’s The Class Of The ’13 HOF Class
News reached Danny Wuerffel a couple of weeks ago that he had been voted into the College Football Hall of Fame. It could have been easy for Danny to take it in stride, almost expect the honor. After all, the former University of Florida quarterback and 1996 Heisman Trophy winner who led the Gators to their first national championship that season, is regarded as one of the best players in SEC history.

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SEC Traditions: The History Of The SEC On TV
The ballroom at the Atlanta Hyatt Regency was transformed last Thursday into a Who’s Who gathering of 32 SEC coaches in eight sports that had combined for a vault full of national championships. The occasion was the joint announcement by ESPN and the SEC that August 2014 is the launch date for the new ESPN-operated SEC Network.

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Holloway Trades Sneakers For Cleats
Murphy Holloway was feeling good a few weeks ago. The Ole Miss senior basketball star had just played in the Portsmouth Invitational, a college career showcase for NBA scouts.

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SEC Traditions: What Used To Be A Phone Call
If you’ve never been to an NFL draft in New York City at Radio City Music Hall, which starts a three-day run Thursday night, then put it on your sports bucket list. It’s definitely a show, “like Hollywood,” LSU football coach Les Miles said. But it wasn’t always this way, which is why I called Archie Manning, to give me perspective as he almost always does.

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SEC Traditions: Snedeker's Time Is Coming
The first rule for golfers hoping to win The Masters is simple. You don’t win The Masters. The Masters wins you. No one knows this better than former Vanderbilt golfer Brandt Snedeker. On Sunday, for the second time in six years, he led golf’s most prestigious tournament on the final day, only to falter.

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1/20/2011
SEC Traditions: The King Of String Music
He has been out of the fast lane of college athletics for about a decade, but few people have run the race longer, harder and better than former LSU All-SEC basketball star Joe Dean Sr. Full Story

1/13/2011
SEC Traditions: It's Good To Be King
From the first minute that Auburn stepped off the plane to the time the Tigers packed up and went home – sir, you’ll have to let us check that BCS national championship trophy because it won’t fit in the overhead compartment – inquiring minds wanted to know. Full Story

1/7/2011
SEC Traditions: Blueprint To Best Rests In The SEC
The rest of the college football world wants to know what’s in the water in the Southeastern Conference. Full Story

12/29/2010
Bobo Knows How To "Bowl" Them Over
There are athletes who always talk about wanting to save their best game for last, that the peak performance of their season should be the final time they suit up. Fourteen years ago, then-Georgia senior quarterback Mike Bobo went everyone one better. Full Story

12/22/2010
SEC Traditions: We Are Family
There are three reasons why December might be my favorite month of the year. Full Story

12/17/2010
SEC Traditions: Bowl Games
Unlike many of my younger sportswriting brethren today, clamoring for a national championship playoff, I love bowl games. Full Story

12/9/2010
SEC Traditions: SEC Oldies Always Goodies
Fred Miller is 70 years old. His hearing isn’t what it once was, and he’s a bit stiff when he moves because of a knee replacement. Full Story

12/2/2010
SEC Traditions: The SEC Championship Game
Count on a smiling Roy Kramer being somewhere in the Georgia Dome press box on Saturday. Full Story

11/26/2010
SEC Traditions: Moore Paints Memorable Moments
My calendar indicates that this is Thanksgiving week. Daniel Moore’s calendar shows that this week is Christmas, because Alabama playing Auburn in the Iron Bowl produces the same euphoric high for Moore like Santa Claus making a house call. Full Story

11/18/2010
LSU vs. Ole Miss Always Matters
They are all old men now in their 60s and 70s, no longer with flat bellies and thick hair, but instead with body parts that mysteriously hurt. 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.

Wuerffel’s The Class Of The ’13 HOF Class

SEC Traditions: The History Of The SEC On TV

Holloway Trades Sneakers For Cleats

SEC Traditions: What Used To Be A Phone Call

SEC Traditions: Snedeker's Time Is Coming

Ron Higgins Bio