The recent report that Mississippi State and Southern Miss will renew their basketball rivalry came as welcomed news to this observer.
State and USM will play four games over the next four Decembers, all in Mississippi Coliseum in the Capital City. Good for State. Good for USM. Good for Jackson. Good for Mississippi basketball.
This year's game will come not quite 54 years after I first saw the two teams play in January of 1963 in what was then the sparkling, new Mississippi Coliseum. Now seems a good time to reminisce.
John F. Kennedy was president.