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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1/30/2012
A Sonny Disposition Carried Auburn's Smith
Some of us wander through life wondering what we want to be when we grow up. And before you know it, you’re getting senior discounts at Denny’s, your body hurts for no reason and a perfect night in your mind is a good book to read and a piece of warm apple pie. Charles H. “Sonny” Smith is 75 years old, so he qualifies on every count of the previous paragraph. But as far as choosing a career path, well, he got to be both things that he dreamed about becoming as one of two sons of a Roan Mountain, Tennessee bootlegger. Full Story

1/20/2012
Bailey Howell’s Mom Absolutely Knew Best
It all started for Bailey Howell when he wisely listened to his mother. Full Story

1/7/2012
Jones Was a Passer Before Passing Was Cool
BCS national championship games often spawn offbeat promotional events. So it was no surprise the other day here at the Marriott Convention Center, the official hotel for media covering Monday’s showdown – a.k.a. The SEC Invitational – between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama that I stumbled on two of the best quarterbacks in SEC history helping cut a 30-foot long New Orleans peacemaker po-boy constructed by New Orleans’ best chefs. Full Story

12/30/2011
For 30 Years, Gillespie Has Had To Grin And Bear It
There won’t be a happier Vanderbilt alum in the stands for Saturday’s 53rd annual AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis between the Commodores and Cincinnati than Paul “Trow” Gillespie. Full Story

12/23/2011
He’s Still My Ace
The worst day of my life happened 43 years ago on Dec. 22, 1968, when my father, Carl “Ace” Higgins died at age 45 of a heart attack while in a hospital. Full Story

12/16/2011
Fifty-Three Years Later, It’s Part Deux For The Tigers
If late Ole Miss football coach Johnny Vaught were still alive – the greatest Rebel of all died in February 2006 – he would have gotten a visit this month from current Alabama coach Nick Saban. Full Story

12/9/2011
Pollack is Still a Showstopper
Life is pretty darned good right now for David Pollack. Considering his honored-filled college football career, as the only three-time first-team all-American in University of Georgia history besides Heisman Trophy-winning running back Herschel Walker, you knew Pollack would be a success. Full Story

12/2/2011
For Two Decades, It Has Been A "SECelebration"
If anything, especially since the creation of the BCS in 1998 in which the top two teams in the BCS standings play in the national championship game, the SEC championship game has often been a BCS championship semi-final. It has led to those nine national titles from the SEC family – three by Florida, two each by Alabama and LSU, and one each for Tennessee and Auburn. Full Story

11/24/2011
The Man with the Golden Boot
As a linebacker for Arkansas in the Razorbacks’ pre-Southeastern Conference days, David Bazzel was high motor guy whose legs never quit running. Full Story

11/18/2011
SEC Traditions: Thankful for SEC Football
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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