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Rankings are nice, but …
‘Tis a heady thing, this Top 25. As Lewis and Clark might have said, it’s a big country. Filled with darkness and dread. Wildcats and Gators. Red Tide and roaring Tigers. To shove your way into the...
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Cool air + Friday night = bliss
Kismet or serendipity, take your pick. Autumn and cool weather have arrived in tandem as our high school lads in the larger classifications begin their quest to make the state football tournament...
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Saints get little respect here
Orley vowed a comeback last week and he delivered, cutting Rick’s lead to a measly one game on the season. Cleveland is now 21-8, Hood 20-9, and, no, that’s not against the spread. Both missed on the...
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When Saints really were Ain'ts
Oh, the humanity … OK. The Saints aren’t a zeppelin burning in Lakehurst, N.J. As far as I know, nobody died in the Superdome last Sunday. Technically, anyway. The Saints are 0-3. We can be...
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What will Orley do for an encore?
After years out the football prognosticating business, Orley Hood took less than half a season to regain his regally omniscient form. Hood went Bo Derek on us last week, a perfect 10 for 10 to pull...
View ArticleHere we go again. . .
Me ‘n’ Ricky went Tierra del Fuego (that’s waaay south) last week, each going 6-6. But, like Lewis and Clark, we press on … Orley’s picks Tennessee at Mississippi State: As goofy as the Vols have...
View ArticleHood takes the lead
Orley Hood, the wily veteran, has taken a one-game lead over relative newcomer Rick Cleveland. Boy, that was fun to write. Only Orley could make this old soul feel like a newcomer. Here we go again ....
View ArticleOrley cain't figure out his Saints
My pal Orley can’t seem to get his Saints right. He picks ‘em to win, they lose. He picks ‘em to lose, they win. Me? Man, I been watching those guys since I was 13. I got ‘em figured out. Yeah, right....
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Big Friday, huge Saturday
Big, big night for some big, big schools in the last games of the high school regular season. Think of it as moving day, like Saturday in major championship golf. A win tonight could mean two...
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Youth vs. experience, sort of
In Mississippi’s World Series of college football prognosticating, Rick Cleveland took a one-game lead over the older, more experienced Orley Hood this past week. Young Rick posted a 10-4 showing,...
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