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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7/20/2011
Skywriters Thrived on a Wing and a Prayer
Every August for 19 years from 1965 to 1983, before you had the three-ring circus of about 900 credentialed media that descended here at the Wynfrey Hotel starting Wednesday for the SEC’s annual football preseason media days, 45 or so hard-working and partying journalists with hearts of gold and livers of bronze, were stuffed in a DC-3 propeller plane for a day-to-day tour of the then-10 league schools. Full Story

6/1/2011
Destin Recap: Day Two
SEC basketball coaches got busy a at the league’s annual business meetings on Wednesday when they proposed to abolish the two six-team divisional races in the upcoming season. Full Story

6/1/2011
Destin Recap: Day One
The expected hot topic on day one of the annual SEC spring business meetings at the Sandestin Beach Hilton on Tuesday was discussing possible changes to the league’s oversigning rule for football. Full Story

5/27/2011
You Never Know What Will Happen At The Beach
Only at the league’s annual spring business meetings, which convenes Tuesday at the Sandestin (Fla.) Beach Hilton for the 27th consecutive year, can you gain a glimpse of the league’s football coaches, men’s and women’s basketball coaches, athletic directors and presidents in a relaxed, non-competitive state. Full Story

5/20/2011
Ron Widby - A man of four seasons for simple reasons
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5/16/2011
Never Lacking For Subjects
When I was asked at the start of last football season to write about Traditions of the SEC, I knew I’d never lack for subjects. Full Story

5/6/2011
Toms is the Original Tiger on Tour
My weekly ritual following the PGA tour has been the same for the last 20 years. I open my newspaper, flip to the sports agate page where the results are printed, find the latest tour stop round of the day and let my eyes wander until I pinpoint David Toms. Full Story

4/29/2011
Former Vandy Golfer Snedeker Proves Nice Guys Can Finish First
On Sunday, former Vanderbilt golfer and Nashville native Brandt Snedeker shot his best PGA tour round of the year, a seven-under par 64 on the last day of The Heritage, and won a playoff to capture his second PGA event ever in five full seasons on the tour. Full Story

4/22/2011
These Irish Eyes Never Quit Smiling
John McDonnell’s office in his Fayetteville, Ark., home holds a lifetime of awards from a 35-year career as the most successful track and field coach in NCAA history. Full Story

4/15/2011
Glance Makes a Career Out of Running
We all discover our true talent sooner or later. Sometimes, it just comes natural. Other times, it takes blood, sweat, tears, grit and grime. 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