by mcl | May 6, 2013 | Columns, Inspiration, Sports Victories
By Robert Wilson Megan Jones was 31 years old when she figured it out. “I was pregnant with our third child. Brian (her husband) and I were talking one day and we decided that we were determined to give our kids some sort of direction in this life,” Jones said. “We...
by mcl | Apr 8, 2013 | Columns, Inspiration, Sports Victories
By ROBERT WILSON Melissa Word won her first state championship on March 9 when she guided her Canton High School Lady Tigers to a 67-45 victory over South Jones for the Class 5A girls basketball title at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson. Word just completed her...
by mcl | Mar 8, 2013 | Columns, Inspiration, Sports Victories
By Robert Wilson The world is very impressed with Jan Sojourner’s résumé as a high school girls basketball coach: Sojourner is ranked fifth in victories among high school girls’ basketball coaches in Mississippi history. She has 656 wins—102 in her first five years at...
by mcl | Feb 4, 2013 | Columns, Inspiration, Sports Victories
By Robert Wilson Former Jackson Prep star kicker, Swayze Waters, had his biggest moment as a pro football player November 25 when he helped the Toronto Argonauts win the Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League’s version of the Super Bowl. But that wasn’t Waters’...
by mcl | Jan 1, 2013 | Columns, Inspiration, Sports Victories
by ROBERT WILSON Keith Williams gave high school football fans plenty of excitement on Friday nights this fall when he became as a key player on Madison Central’s football team. The senior wide receiver set a school record for receiving yards and helped the Jaguars to...
by mcl | Dec 1, 2012 | Sports Victories
by ROBERT WILSON Jackson Prep senior quarterback Ryan Buchanan has a 30-minute talk every night. It’s not with Prep coach Ricky Black. It’s not with coach Hugh Freeze at Ole Miss, where Buchanan had decided to play college football. It’s not with friends or teammates....
