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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4/8/2011
SEC Baseball Needed A Well Placed Polk
Former Mississippi State baseball legend Ron Polk, the Southeastern Conference’s winningest coach ever in any sport, is 67 years old. He should be lounging at a beach condo near a golf course, enjoying a stress-free retirement. Full Story

3/31/2011
Duke Got "Goosed"
Jack “Goose” Givens has never lost his innate sense of timing. Thirty-four years ago, in the final game of a storied college basketball career at the University of Kentucky, he saved his very best performance for last – a career-high 41 points in the Wildcats’ 94-88 victory over Duke in the NCAA national championship game in St. Louis. Full Story

3/25/2011
Brown Still the Underdog's Underdog
Except for gametime, former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown never knew the time of day and didn’t care. All he knew was that there’s 24 hours in a day, and there’s no rule saying that you have to sleep more than four hours daily. Full Story

3/18/2011
Game Was Never Over Until Big Shot Rob Said So
Former University of Alabama star Robert “Big Shot Rob” Horry did something over and over that many of the game's greats rarely did. Full Story

3/9/2011
The Year Of The Late Night Train To Georgia
Mark Womack’s official academic record indicates he has a Bachelors’ degree in Communication from the University of Alabama that he earned in 1978. His unofficial academic background includes a PhD in Crisis Management, something earned in 30-plus years working for the Southeastern Conference, most of them as executive associate commissioner as the right-hand man of the league commissioner. Full Story

3/4/2011
March Madness In My Gladness
Timing is everything. In May 1979, I graduated from LSU, three-fourths full of knowledge and one-fourth full of crawfish, ready to dazzle the reading public with my writing skills. Full Story

2/18/2011
Man in Plaid, Alabama's Sanderson Was No Wimp
When the NCAA basketball rules committee implemented a 28-foot coaching box to prevent coaches from tailing referees to midcourt like yapping dogs chasing Cadillacs, rulesmakers never realized they provided an ideal stage for master thespian/basketball coach Winfrey “Wimp” Sanderson. Full Story

2/11/2011
Person to Person, Auburn was always Sonny side up
It all started at home in Brantley, a dot on the map sitting on state highway 331 in south Alabama, 45 miles or so from the Florida border. Full Story

2/4/2011
Nolan is Still Rollin'
I’d never seen anything like it before. And I’ve never seen anything like it since. Rewind to February 1994, and you’re sitting with me in Arkansas’ spanking-new Bud Walton Arena. We’re watching a Razorbacks’ basketball practice. Full Story

1/27/2011
Tuohy Can Still Dish
Welcome to the final round of Southeastern Conference Jeopardy. I’m your host, Ron Higgins, Mr. SEC Traditions, and here’s your final question. He’s the greatest passer in Ole Miss history. You have 30 seconds. Good luck. 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