Crooked Letter Sports

By Rick Cleveland and Tyler Cleveland

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Mississippi-centric sports talk and stories with Hall of Fame columnist Rick Cleveland and Scorebook Live senior reporter Tyler Cleveland. Produced in Jackson and made by Mississippians, for Mississippians.

Episode Date
Don't let the Rebs get hot
Jun 11, 2026
On to the Super Regionals...
Jun 03, 2026
Mississippi is a Diamond state, and not just baseball
May 27, 2026
Another championship, another 40-win season, but does Southern Miss have chance for a national seed?
May 20, 2026
Bobby Cox and Ted Turner (and Lane Kiffin)
May 13, 2026
Hands off Makokas
May 06, 2026
Spring Grab-bag
Apr 29, 2026
There's a draft in here
Apr 22, 2026
Kevin Griffin talks Konnor Griffin and Belhaven softball
Apr 15, 2026
A tradition like no other...
Apr 08, 2026
A smorgasbord of sports
Apr 01, 2026
Big week in Mississippi college baseball and the Major Leagues
Mar 25, 2026
Jay Powell talks baseball
Mar 18, 2026
Big changes in the Big Easy
Mar 11, 2026
Baseball excellence – and some women's hoops, too
Mar 04, 2026
The Sip's lightning-fast baseball start
Feb 25, 2026
The trial of trinidad...and more
Feb 18, 2026
College baseball preview
Feb 11, 2026
Super Bowl memories
Feb 04, 2026
Mississippians in the Super Bowl and more...
Jan 28, 2026
New year, new digs
Jan 21, 2026
Fiesta Bowl: The aftermath
Jan 14, 2026
The Fiesta Bowl commeth
Jan 07, 2026
The Christmas-New Year's-Sugar Bowl edition
Dec 24, 2025
Lots happening in the Crooked Letter State…
Dec 17, 2025
Ole Miss in, Notre Dame out … and other news
Dec 10, 2025
It's not like there's nothing to talk about…
Dec 03, 2025
We're thankful for this Egg Bowl
Nov 26, 2025
Oma-gosh, how did our teams let Ahmad Hardy get away?
Nov 19, 2025
An Empire State of Mind
Nov 12, 2025
Nationally renowned college football expert Ross Dellenger, a Biloxi native and all-around good guy, joins the podcast to share his expertise.
Nov 05, 2025
Discussions: Lane Kiffin's future; Will State win an SEC game; Can the Huff express keep winning; Shohei vs. the Babe… all that and more.
Oct 29, 2025
Run another play or kick the goal?
Oct 22, 2025
Jeff Roberson joins the pod to talk all things Ole Miss, including The Ole Miss Baseball book, the football Rebels and their upcoming game with Georgia and the nationally ranked Ole Miss golf team.
Oct 15, 2025
So much to discuss, including maybe the worst roughing the passer call in history.
Oct 08, 2025
The Sanderson Farms Championship and a whole lot of football
Oct 01, 2025
Randy Watkins joins the pod. It's Ryder Cup Week, but there are huge football games, too
Sep 24, 2025
Big starts for Mississippi's 'Big 3'
Sep 17, 2025
As the football world turns (and Mississippi State shows up) …
Sep 10, 2025
Mississippi football's big opening weekend
Sep 03, 2025
Finally, football is here, so let's talk a little swimming
Aug 27, 2025
Brandon High football coach Lance Pogue joins the podcast.
Aug 20, 2025
Here are the football games we most look forward to this fall.
Aug 13, 2025
The Dog Days of Summer in sports...
Aug 06, 2025
Former award-winning Clarion Ledger sports editor Rusty Hampton joins the podcast to discuss the glory years of sports writing in Mississippi
Jul 30, 2025
Derrick Nix and Dexter McCluster both go into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame this Saturday night. "Two of the biggest hearts I have ever covered," Rick Cleveland says. Nix joins the podcast to talk about their relationship and a whole lot more.
Jul 23, 2025
The Open goes to Northern Ireland
Jul 16, 2025
The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class of '25
Jul 09, 2025
Soon to be Hall of Famer Mike Justice joins the podcast.
Jul 02, 2025
Soon-to-be Hall of Famer Scott Berry joins the podcast.
Jun 25, 2025
So much to discuss…
Jun 18, 2025
When golf becomes a horror show…
Jun 11, 2025
College baseball wrap
Jun 04, 2025
Michael La Sasso of Ole Miss claims NCAA individual golf championship, while Ole Miss, Southern Miss and Mississippi State enter NCAA Baseball Tournament play
May 28, 2025
Baseball, baseball, baseball … and Davis Riley
May 21, 2025
Belhaven softball coach Kevin Griffin, father of 19-year-old baseball prodigy Konnor Griffin, makes a return Crooked Letter appearance
May 14, 2025
Pine Belt News sports editor Andrew Abadie joins the pod to talk all things Southern Miss, Bobby Halford's latest achievement and high school baseball excellence in the Hattiesburg area
May 07, 2025
What next for Mississippi State baseball?
Apr 30, 2025
What should the Saints do? Jaxson Dart?
Apr 23, 2025
Basking in the glow of The Masters…
Apr 16, 2025
Masters week is back and so is Mississippi's Mr. Golf, Randy Watkins
Apr 09, 2025
Springtime in Mississippi
Apr 02, 2025
How sweet it is for Ole Miss
Mar 26, 2025
At the intersection of basketball and baseball…
Mar 19, 2025
Raymond basketball coach Tony Tadlock joins us to talk about high school basketball championships and this week's SEC Tournament
Mar 12, 2025
Jackson suburbs rule in high school hoops … and a whole lot more.
Mar 05, 2025
The week begins with three Mississippi teams in the Top 25 D-! Baseball poll.
Feb 26, 2025
State finishes the sweep, college baseball returns
Feb 19, 2025
Southern Miss football coach Charles Huff joins the show.
Feb 12, 2025
Noland "Super Gnat" Smith, who still bleeds Kansas City Chiefs red, joins the pod.
Feb 05, 2025
Questions: Can the Eagles get the Chiefs this time? Can anybody block Chris Jones?
Jan 29, 2025
Ohio State won it all, but where would Ole Miss been with Quinshon Jundkins?
Jan 22, 2025
Mississippi's college hoops revival (and rivalry)
Jan 15, 2025
Putting a wrap on the Saints and Rebels, and lots more.
Jan 08, 2025
2024, the Mississippi sports year in review…
Dec 31, 2024
Ole Miss basketball coach Chris Beard joins the pod…
Dec 18, 2024
Jeremy McClain talks Huff Hire
Dec 11, 2024
State Championship Week and more…
Dec 04, 2024
The Egg Bowl edition
Nov 27, 2024
Mississippi College football is no more
Nov 20, 2024
Newly elected Hall of Famer Mike Justice joins the pod
Nov 13, 2024
Rod Walker joins the pod to talk Saints, Dennis Allen.
Nov 06, 2024
Hattiesburg's Tony "The Tiger" Vance joins the podcast.
Oct 30, 2024
McDonald's All American, All-SEC, NBA All-Star, NBA champion, Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer … and now Mo Williams joins the Crooked Letter podcast.
Oct 23, 2024
In the immortal words of Casey Stengel: Can't anybody here play this game?
Oct 16, 2024
All hail Vanderbilt! And, meanwhile, another big Ole Miss-LSU game…
Oct 09, 2024
Goff week in Mississippi. (Hopefully not the last).
Oct 02, 2024
Ole Miss stays hot, hot, hot
Sep 25, 2024
New Orleans sports columnist and author Jeff Duncan joins the podcast to talk about his new Steve Gleason book and the new-look New Orleans Saint
Sep 18, 2024
The Clevelands pay tribute to native Mississippian James Earl Jones and also discuss a full weekend of football, from high schools to the NFL.
Sep 11, 2024
Former Mississippi sports writer David Brandt, who now reports and writes for the Associated Press in Arizona, joins the podcast with the inside scoop on the Arizona State Sun Devils who face the Mississippi State Bulldogs Saturday night.
Sep 04, 2024
Brandon High football coach Sam Williams joins the podcast to to discuss the upcoming football season.
Aug 28, 2024
Over or under on victories? The Vegas line on Ole Miss is 9.5, compared to 4.5 for both State and Southern Miss.
Aug 21, 2024
It's 100 degrees outside, the Olympics are over, it's time for…. High School Football
Aug 14, 2024
Father of the Year? Kevin Griffin would definitely be a candidate.
Aug 07, 2024
Eli Manning joins the Crooked Letter pod
Jul 31, 2024
A slow time in the world of sports? Don't tell that to Xander Schauffele, the Summer Olympics, the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame or the Atlanta Braves who now use ambulances instead of a team bus.
Jul 24, 2024
Mississippi's big night at the MLB Draft
Jul 17, 2024
Top 10 Major League prospect Konnor Griffin and his dad, Belhaven softball coach Kevin Griffin, join the podcast just days ahead of Sunday's MLB Draft.
Jul 10, 2024
Now boarding for Boston and the Dot Burrow Bandwagon
Jul 03, 2024
Chris Harris, the excellent communications director and play-by-play broadcaster of the Mississippi Braves joins the pod to talk about the last season of the Mississippi Braves.
Jun 26, 2024
A U.S. Open to remember (and one Rory McIlroy surely would love to forget)
Jun 19, 2024
It's U.S. Open Week and Mr. Golf Randy Watkins joins to discuss whether anybody on the planet can beat Scottie Scheffler right now.
Jun 12, 2024
The NCAA Regional wrap-up podcast.
Jun 05, 2024
Matthew Russo of the red-shot Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles joins the pod.
May 29, 2024
Tournament Time for Mississippi Baseball.
May 22, 2024
In or out (of the NCAA Tournament)? Ole Miss baseball Rebels, hot of late, have some work to do. State's in, and could host. Southern Miss looks solidly in as well barring a collapse.
May 15, 2024
It's crunch time in both college and high school baseball.
May 08, 2024
NFL referee and Pascagoula native Sarah Thomas talks football, family and health
May 01, 2024
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Jay Powell joins the pod to talk – what else? – baseball.
Apr 24, 2024
It's Scottie Scheffler's world and the rest of us golf in it, plus college baseball, the WNBA draft and Lane Kiffin's brand of spring football.
Apr 17, 2024
It's Master's Week, so, naturally Mississippi's Mr. Golf, Randy Watkins, joins the podcast
Apr 10, 2024
Talking Final Fours, college and high school baseball and Mississippians on PGA Golf Tour….
Apr 03, 2024
The Women Take Center Stage
Mar 27, 2024
Exploring the baseball factory known as Lewisburg.
Mar 20, 2024
Touching all bases: football, baseball and basketball with interesting news all around.
Mar 13, 2024
Out of the gym and into the yard
Mar 06, 2024
Balls are bouncing all over town…
Feb 28, 2024
Egg Bowl Basketball
Feb 21, 2024
Mississippi at the Super Bowl.
Feb 14, 2024
A busy February in Mississippi sports…plus a Taylor Swift/Super Bowl rant…
Feb 07, 2024
And then there were two, the Chiefs and the 49ers…
Jan 31, 2024
It happens every 32 years or so, an amateur wins a PGA Tour Tournament, and Nick Dunlap just did it.
Jan 24, 2024
Remembering a frigid day in Chicago with Walter Payton and his sweet mama, plus a whole lot more.
Jan 17, 2024
Smash-mouth football rules the day as Michigan claims national championship.
Jan 10, 2024
Happy New Year: It's Michael Penix's world, and we get to watch.
Jan 03, 2024
Stories from the sports writing road, holiday edition.
Dec 27, 2023
Signing Day story lines, an Ole Miss-Southern Miss basketball preview, and how 'bout dem Saints?
Dec 20, 2023
Catching up on basketball; getting ready for Mississipppi-Alabama All-Star football
Dec 13, 2023
Oak Grove state championship coach Drew Causey joins the podcast, which covers so much going on in Mississippi sports.
Dec 06, 2023
So much to talk about: Lebby, the Ole Miss-Missouri controversy, the Southern Miss overhaul, the Iron Bowl Miracle, Georgia-Alabama, Patrick Shegog and a fabulous State Championships slate.
Nov 29, 2023
Egg Bowl: Anything can happen but history tells us the best team usually wins.
Nov 22, 2023
"They are paying him how much not to coach?"
Nov 15, 2023
Ole Miss-Georgia: Biggest game in years.
Nov 08, 2023
The Mississippi high school football playoffs are underway, and that makes the two Clevelands happy boys.
Nov 01, 2023
So much happening: Football, baseball, volleyball and, now, basketball…
Oct 25, 2023
Welcome to the Big League, Wilson Furr…
Oct 18, 2023
Buying or selling the Rebels?
Oct 11, 2023
A fall sports bonanza
Oct 04, 2023
Delta State is 4-0, and Coach Todd Cooley joins the podcast…
Sep 27, 2023
Football, football, football…
Sep 20, 2023
David Eckert joins the podcast to talk Ole Miss football.
Sep 13, 2023
Remembering Jimmy Buffett; hailing Oak Grove Warriors
Sep 06, 2023
Football is here!
Aug 30, 2023
THE Mississippi Football Book is out just in time for the season.
Aug 23, 2023
Legendary Mississippi high school football coach Mike Justice joins the pod.
Aug 16, 2023
The Coaches college football poll is out! Can you trust it?
Aug 09, 2023
Over or under? Let's look at the odds on Mississippi football teams.
Aug 02, 2023
Paul Maholm joins Crooked Letter for Hall of Fame Week episode
Jul 26, 2023
If these are the Dog Days of Summer, it must be time for SEC Media Days.
Jul 19, 2023
Tyrone Keys helps us remember his pal, Johnie Cooks
Jul 12, 2023
New Orleans sports writer Rod Walker, a Yazoo native, joins the Pod.
Jul 05, 2023
A Hall of Fame podcast.
Jun 28, 2023
Our power's out and so are our baseball teams, but the podcast must go on.
Jun 21, 2023
When a season-ending loss is still magical…
Jun 14, 2023
Hill Denson, the man who had the USM baseball plan, joins the pod.
Jun 06, 2023
Baseball, Mississippi-style.
May 31, 2023
Talking golf with Mississippi's Mr. Golf, Randy Watkins
May 24, 2023
The great Billy Watkins joins the podcast.
May 17, 2023
Southern Miss baseball coach Scott Berry joins the podcast.
May 10, 2023
Our 100th podcast reviews the NFL Draft, the Atlanta Braves' hot start, Scott Foxhall's dismssall and the great Ralph Boston
May 03, 2023
Not just another mock draft.
Apr 26, 2023
Only in Mississippi…
Apr 19, 2023
Talking The Masters and Mississippi college baseball
Apr 12, 2023
A tradition unlike any other
Apr 05, 2023
It's baseball season in Mississippi but tornadoes butt in.
Mar 29, 2023
How sweet it is for Ole Miss and 'Coach Yo'
Mar 22, 2023
A new golf ball? What does this mean?
Mar 15, 2023
Like father, Like son
Mar 08, 2023
Basketballs are bouncing in his sleep.
Mar 01, 2023
It happens every spring
Feb 22, 2023
Crooked Letter Super Bowl Wrap
Feb 13, 2023
The 'Sip in the Super Bowl
Feb 08, 2023
Madison-Ridgeland Academy's Richard Duease talks about 48 years of coaching and how to keep winning big.
Feb 01, 2023
Talkin' golf with Randy Watkins
Jan 25, 2023
Time for The GOAT to hang 'em up
Jan 18, 2023
I think that truck had Georgia plates
Jan 11, 2023
When it's tough to talk about football
Jan 04, 2023
Counting down the Top 10 stories of 2022
Dec 28, 2022
Jay Ladner and the rebirth of USM basketball
Dec 21, 2022
Mike Leach remembered
Dec 13, 2022
So long, Coach Prime.
Dec 07, 2022
Starkville coach Chris Jones joins the pod on championship week in Mississippi.
Nov 30, 2022
Ocean Springs coach Blake Pennock joins the pod – and much, much more.
Nov 23, 2022
Friday night lights: playoff edition
Nov 16, 2022
Double digit favorites? Alabama? Really?
Nov 09, 2022
Say it ain't so, John Cohen!
Nov 02, 2022
Hall of Famer Lewis Tillman joins the pod
Oct 26, 2022
Ole Miss-LSU: It happens every year but it doesn't always mean this much.
Oct 19, 2022
Ben Ingram brings the Braves home to Mississippi
Oct 12, 2022
Rebels, Bulldogs and Eagles, Oh My!
Oct 05, 2022
Golf Week in Mississippi
Sep 28, 2022
Prime-time in Jackson and football everywhere
Sep 21, 2022
A big day for the Fun Belt
Sep 14, 2022
Deuce McAllister joins us to talk Saints … and a lot more.
Sep 07, 2022
Ralph Russo, AP college football editor, joins the podcast to talk, of course, college football.
Aug 31, 2022
Robbie Faulk, the busiest guy in Starkville, joins us to talk college and high school football.
Aug 24, 2022
Over and under, what you got in college football? Also, we celebrate the life of Corky Palmer.
Aug 17, 2022
High school football and those loathesome Mets
Aug 10, 2022
Rickey Neaves and 100 years of the MHSAA
Aug 03, 2022
Hot Summer, Hot Braves, Hot 2022 Hall of Fame Class
Jul 27, 2022
A two parter with retired NBA and college basketball coach Tim Floyd, a Hattiesburg.native and long-time friend of the Cleveland family (part 2)
Jul 20, 2022
A two parter with retired NBA and college basketball coach Tim Floyd, a Hattiesburg native and long-time friend of the Cleveland family.
Jul 13, 2022
The Dog Days of Summer (and big money)
Jul 06, 2022
The Ole Miss Rebels did it!
Jun 27, 2022
Omaha Magic
Jun 22, 2022
On to Omaha
Jun 15, 2022
Super Baseball Weekend in Mississippi
Jun 08, 2022
The NCAA Baseball Tournament Field is set, plus SEC football scheduling
Jun 01, 2022
Nick vs. Jimbo, plus baseball galore
May 25, 2022
It's tournament time in high school and college baseball.
May 18, 2022
It happens every spring
May 11, 2022
Bobby Cleveland remembered
May 04, 2022
College baseball, buy or sell
Apr 27, 2022
Good call, blue
Apr 20, 2022
Christopher (Oz) Ostrander: This guy knows his stuff
Apr 13, 2022
The best time of the sports year
Apr 06, 2022
A sports smorgasbord
Mar 30, 2022
The transactional month of March
Mar 23, 2022
Mississippi golf celebration
Mar 16, 2022
36 basketball games in six days
Mar 09, 2022
Basketball, baseball overload
Mar 02, 2022
College football dish with Ross Dellinger
Feb 23, 2022
A Super Bowl that really was
Feb 16, 2022
A new sponsor joins on Super Bowl week
Feb 09, 2022
Cheers to you, Sean Payton
Feb 02, 2022
57 years of covering Mississippi sports
Jan 26, 2022
S1E33 The Dallas Cowboys: America's Team
Jan 19, 2022
S1E32 Georgia topples the giant, with some help from the Sip
Jan 12, 2022
S1E31 Mississippi's bowl game busts
Jan 05, 2022
S1E30 Crooked Letter Holidays Special
Dec 29, 2021
S1E29 Bowl Games and Beyond
Dec 22, 2021
E1E28 Bowls and bowls and bowls and bowls
Dec 15, 2021
S1E27 The Championship Weekend that was
Dec 08, 2021
S1E26 Special week in Mississippi sports with championship games all around.
Dec 01, 2021
S1E25 Talking prep playoffs, Egg Bowl with Sam Williams
Nov 24, 2021
S1E24 Penalty, 15 yards, tapping the passer
Nov 17, 2021
S1E23 So, so much going on in the Crooked Letter sports world
Nov 10, 2021
S1E22 Mississippi's Fall Sports Bonanza
Nov 03, 2021
S1E21 Conference realignment comes for Southern Miss
Oct 27, 2021
S1E20 DEUUUUCCCEE!
Oct 20, 2021
S1E19 A bad Saturday to miss College Football
Oct 13, 2021
S1E18 When going the wrong way went right
Oct 06, 2021
S1E17 It's Golf Week in Mississippi
Sep 29, 2021
S1E16 Greenville Christian proves to all it's legit
Sep 22, 2021
S1E15 Mississippi football, some terrific regional matchups
Sep 16, 2021
S1E14 Tigers, Eagles, Dawgs and Rebs, oh my
Sep 09, 2021
S1E13 The Greenville Christian phenomenon and college football predictions
Sep 02, 2021
S1E12 Football is Upon Us
Aug 26, 2021
S1E11 An afternoon with Judd Boswell
Aug 19, 2021
S1E10 The COVID Delta Variant Threatens Football
Aug 12, 2021
S1E9 A different kind of Olympic Games
Aug 05, 2021
S1E8 The Sooners and Longhorns are coming
Jul 29, 2021
S1E7 Two induction nights for the price of one
Jul 22, 2021
S1E6 The Will Hall way at Southern Miss
Jul 15, 2021
S1E5 A conversation with Randy Watkins, Part II
Jul 08, 2021
S1E4 Omaha and a National Championship Revisited
Jul 03, 2021
S1E3 A conversation with Randy Watkins, Part I
Jul 01, 2021
S1E2 The Mississippi Lady who Changed Baseball Stadiums
Jul 01, 2021
S1E1 The Mayor of Starkville
Jul 01, 2021
Crooked Letter Sports Teaser Episode
Jun 11, 2021