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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11/23/2012
Heroic Werner Handles Life’s Most Unexpected Audible
We have a tendency in athletics to anoint someone as a hero, because they make an incredible play to win a game, or they deliver a performance against incredible odds. Full Story

11/16/2012
SEC Traditions: The Aggie Joke Is On Us
A few months ago, Ryan Swope already knew. During the July circus known as SEC Football Media Days, Swope, Texas A&M’s record-setting wide receiver, was asked how he believed the Aggies’ fast-paced, no-huddle offense of first-year A&M coach Kevin Sumlin would fare against SEC defenses, particularly in the Western Division. Full Story

11/9/2012
A Half-Century of SEC Lessons
Something – and I don’t know what is – told me this was an anniversary weekend of sorts in my life. Full Story

11/2/2012
Here’s to you, Mr. Lattimore
Write about college football for more than three decades like yours truly, and there are a few times when you become jaded. Full Story

10/26/2012
Bond Drove Bulldogs to Upset of No. 1
John Bond’s corvette was parked near the dressing room at Jackson Veterans Memorial Stadium on the afternoon on the first day of November 1980. Full Story

10/19/2012
I’ve Got Your Number, No. 21
Somewhere in our pasts, tucked away in a box in our attics or stowed deep in our memories, is THE jersey. You know the one. THE jersey of your first sports hero with his or her number. Full Story

10/11/2012
Invent it? No. Perfect It? Probably.
We’re just gentle folks down here in the South. Southerners say yes sir and no ma’am. Thank you and you’re welcome. We smile at strangers and ask, `How ‘ya doin’?” Southerners open doors for women. Southerners don't give simple explanations, but recite their life stories before getting to the point. Full Story

10/4/2012
Gators’ Brown Left SEC QBs Black and Blue
It rarely happens during a player’s career. There’s not much time to savor the moment, to stop and smell the roses, to bask in the spotlight, to get pats on the back. Full Story

9/27/2012
It Was Always Easy Being Greene
David Greene loved playing football. He didn’t play for the glory, for the honors, to be the big man on campus. Full Story

9/20/2012
Croom Hire Made Waves
I remember the last time any coach or athletic director ever listened to my advice, and actually thought I didn’t needed to be drug-tested. 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