SEC Traditions: Questions, Questions
Bill Hancock didn’t realize he was such a popular guy. It was lunchtime last week at the Sandestin Beach Hilton during the annual SEC spring business meetings when Hancock found himself surrounded by a growing crowd of reporters. They all wanted to know the same thing from Hancock, executive director of the new College Football Playoff coming in the 2014 season.

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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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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

11/11/2010
SEC Traditions: A "Mascot" Bucket List
When you reach 50 years old, you ponder things that you’d still like to accomplish before leaving Full Story

11/4/2010
SEC Traditions: Tennessee's Checkerboard End Zones
In his latest column, Ron Higgins explores the history of Tennessee's checkerboard end zones. Full Story

10/28/2010
SEC Traditions: A Strange, But Fitting Friendship
Okay, so it wasn’t exactly the best way to start a friendship. Two Southeastern Conference football players, one an Auburn strong safety, the other an Ole Miss running back. Full Story

10/22/2010
SEC Traditions: Uga VIII
In his latest installment, Ron Higgins discusses Georgia's live bulldog mascot. Full Story

10/14/2010
SEC Traditions: Remembering Archie
College football has 6-6, 250-pound quarterbacks that can throw a ball 70 yards with a flick of a wrist, receivers who can run faster than deer and 350-pound nose guards that have the footwork of ballerinas. Full Story

10/7/2010
SEC Traditions
People ask me the same questions all the time about my career choice of being a sportswriter, something I’ve done for 30 years. Full Story

9/30/2010
SEC Traditions: In Stormy Weather, LSU is Louisiana's Sunshine
In his latest column, Ron Higgins looks at LSU's impact on the Pelican State. Full Story

9/23/2010
SEC Traditions with Ron Higgins: Miss. State Cowbells
In this edition of SEC Traditions, Ron Higgins takes a look at a Bulldog tradition that creates one of college football’s most unique atmospheres. Full Story

9/16/2010
SEC Traditions: Chucky Mullins
Ron Higgins SEC Traditions column on Chucky Mullins. 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.

SEC Traditions: Questions, Questions

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

Ron Higgins Bio