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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11/11/2011
It’s Not What You See Now...
Last Saturday, No. 1 LSU beat No. 2 Alabama, 9-6, in overtime, in a throwback game that centered on defense, kicking game and field positions, the foundation on which Southeastern Conference football was built. Full Story

11/4/2011
This One’s For The Bear and Coach Mac
There he stood, propped up against the Legion Field goalposts, his houndstooth hat tilted slightly over his eyes, one leg casually crossed over the other. Alabama’s Paul “Bear” Bryant, probably the most legendary figure in college football history. Coach of six national championship teams, winner of 13 Southeastern Conference championships. Molder of men. The man who carried an entire league and his state on his back for 25 years. Full Story

10/28/2011
No Surprise that Summitt Has a Plan
Pat Summitt has a plan. This is not breaking news. She had a plan when she took over as Tennessee’s Lady Vols’ head coach at age 22. She had a plan to recover from a serious knee injury and make the U.S. Olympic team at age 24. Full Story

10/21/2011
Davis Has Been a Man for All Sports Seasons
When I’m in my channel-flippin’ mood – which is often – there’s always something that stops my twitching thumb besides The Millionaire Matchmaker, Storage Wars, Hawaii Five-O and CSI Miami. It’s whenever I come across Charles Davis on the NFL Network. Full Story

10/14/2011
Is it over yet? Really? Are you sure?
You hear it all the time from college head football coaches. "To have a chance to beat a team as good as the one we’re playing, we’ve got to play the full 60 minutes." When I was a much younger writer, I thought that quote was the most overused cliché ever. Full Story

10/7/2011
Ole Miss’ Smith put the “foot” in football
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9/23/2011
Lunney to Meadors Finally turned the Tide the Razorbacks’ Way
Barry Lunney Jr. stepped into his huddle one last time on a beautiful, clear September afternoon in Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium. The Arkansas senior quarterback didn’t have time to think whether he and his teammates were about to make history with possibly the Hogs’ first-ever win over Alabama after 13 straight losses. Full Story

9/16/2011
Brando's Broadcast Hub in the Heart of SEC Country
Tim Brando is sitting calmly in the middle of organized chaos. It’s the last week of August, and the CBS Sports Network simulcast debut of his syndicated Yahoo Sports daily three-hour radio talk show (9 a.m. to 12 noon CT) that’s also being broadcast nationally on Sirius and XM satellite – did you follow all that? – is just more than a week away. Full Story

9/9/2011
Rockey’s Road Forever Circles Back to Starkville
This is a really bold statement I’m about to make, but here it goes: No athlete in the history of the Southeastern Conference loves his or her alma mater more than Rockey Felker loves Mississippi State. Full Story

9/2/2011
Season Openers Can Be Eye-Openers
Rewind to last Jan. 10, it’s almost midnight and I’m standing outside of University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, waiting for a media bus to take me back to my hotel. 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