The resignation of Ole Miss Head Football Coach Hugh Freeze over a “pattern of misconduct,” sent tremors throughout SEC football circles and the South. How can public figures like Freeze, former South Carolina Governor and now Congressman Mark Sanford and former Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley, all of whom processed to be “Christian men,” throw [...]
Historian David Cohn once wrote, “The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg.” The Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN, has once again been nominated for the Nations Best Historic Hotel in a USA Today poll that runs until early August. Like many southerners who grew up [...]
You're probably still cleaning the grill and putting the slip-n-slide away from the fourth of July bash, but it's now time to turn your attention to SEC football. The 2017 Southeastern Conference Media day for football coaches and players is scheduled for Monday, July 12 in Hoover, AL. Each team will make available their head coach [...]
The July 4th holiday weekend marks the "unofficial" mid-point of the summer holidays. July 4th fireworks in the South are popular with families and gatherings of friends. Here is a list of popular spots throughout the South to catch some incredible firework celebrations: Alabama Birmingham’s Thunder on the Mountain Fireworks Show is a hometown favorite. [...]
The level of political and social incivility in America has reached a new high. Better to say a new low. I’ve spent many years in and around politics but make it a point not to discuss the politics on OneSouthernMan. I’m not going to start now, however, given the severity of vicious attacks we’ve seen [...]
