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Crooked Letter Sports

Rick Cleveland and Tyler Cleveland

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.

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32:23

Over or under? Let’s look at the odds on Mississippi...

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2023/08/02

Las Vegas oddsmakers have set the odds on how many football games college and NFL teams will win this season. The Cleveland boys discuss whether the Mississippi teams and the New Orleans Saints will beat the odds.

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20:54

Paul Maholm joins Crooked Letter for Hall of Fame...

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2023/07/26

This will be Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Weekend here in the Jackson area, and Class of 2023 inductee Paul Maholm joins us to help celebrate. Maholm, one of the most decorated pitchers in Mississippi State Diamond Dog history, was a three-year ace of the State staff and then won 77 games as a Major League pitcher for five different teams, including a memorable stint in 2012-13 with the Atlanta Braves.

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22:35

If these are the Dog Days of Summer, it must be time...

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2023/07/19

If no news is good news, then all the news is good at SEC Football Media Days, where hundreds of media types gather to hear much ado about very little. The Clevelands discuss what’s going on this week in Nashville where SEC football coaches aren’t about to give away any top secrets. They could use a little Steve Spurrier to pump things up this week. Also, The Open (formerly known as the British Open) begins Thursday and Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are the favorites.

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32:04

Tyrone Keys helps us remember his pal, Johnie Cooks

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2023/07/12

Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer and former Mississippi State and NFL football great Tyrone Keys was part of the same signing class as the late Johnie Cooks and they played together on some of State’s greatest defenses. Keys remembers his late friend and some of the greatest games in Bulldog history.

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New Orleans sports writer Rod Walker, a Yazoo native,...

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2023/07/05

Yazoo City native Rod Walker, a Mississippi State-educated engineer, switched careers and became an award-winning sports writer, first at the Clarion Ledger and now at the New Orleans Times Picayune. His bank account’s loss was the sports world’s gain. Rod joins us to talk New Orleans and Mississippi sports

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31:05

A Hall of Fame podcast.

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2023/06/28

Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame executive director Bill Blackwell joins us to talk about a huge month of July at the shrine, the Watermelon Classic, a big induction weekend, and since Bill his a baseball guy, the College World Series that was.

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22:08

Our power’s out and so are our baseball teams, but...

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2023/06/21

For the first time in recent memory, the Crooked Letter state doesn’t have a team in the College World Series. Rick, displaced to New Orleans by the recent power outages, and Tyler, in studio, discuss the Mississippi-less CWS, Mississippi State’s recent hire of a pitching coach in hopes of getting back to Omaha, the U.S. Open, and Scorebook Live Mississippi’s all-sports awards.

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17:15

When a season-ending loss is still magical…

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2023/06/14

Mother Nature and Tennessee rained on the Southern Miss baseball parade that had seemed headed for Omaha and the College World Series. But anyone who was in Hattiesburg Monday night will not soon forget the sendoff 6,000 fans and Tennessee’s players and coaches gave retiring Golden Eagle coach Scott Berry.

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39:49

Hill Denson, the man who had the USM baseball plan,...

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2023/06/06

When Hill Denson became the Southern Miss baseball coach, the USM program had never been to the post-season, had never charged for a ticket, didn’t have stadium lights and amenities such as luxury suites were a pipe dream. This weekend, Southern Miss will host Tennessee for a Super Regional at Pete Taylor Park/Hill Denson Field.

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24:48

Baseball, Mississippi-style.

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2023/05/31

Is there anything better than post-season baseball? The Clevelands have plenty to discuss with Southern Miss a No. 2 seed in the Auburn Regional, William Carey University threatening to win an NAIA national championship and the Mississippi High School State championship series taking place at Trustmark Park. There are so many story lines in Pearl, at Auburn and in Idaho where Carey coach Bobby Halford got his 1,300th victory Monday night.

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39:39

Talking golf with Mississippi’s Mr. Golf, Randy Watkins

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2023/05/24

The golf season is in full bloom, and Randy Watkins, Mississippi’s Mr. Golf, joins us to talk PGA Championship, Brooks Koepka, who won, and Michael Block, who stole the show (and has a Mississippi connection). We also discuss Wilson Furr, the Jackson native, who has played his way into the spotlight on the Korn Ferry Tour.

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35:58

The great Billy Watkins joins the podcast.

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2023/05/17

With Tyler softballing down in Hattiesburg this week, long-time Mississippi sports writer Billy Watkins joins Rick to discuss about 100 years combined of writing Magnolia State sports. Favorite players, favorite games, favorite interviews are just a few parts of a wide-ranging discussion.

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33:05

Southern Miss baseball coach Scott Berry joins the...

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2023/05/10

Southern Miss currently holds the nation’s longest winning streak at 10 games and has moved into position to possibly host an NCAA Regional. Berry’s USM program has been a model of consistency since he took over for the legendary Corky Palmer.

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27:05

Our 100th podcast reviews the NFL Draft, the Atlanta...

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2023/05/03

The Cleveland boys review the NFL Draft, Mississippi State’s pitching coach change, Southern Miss’ chances to host, the red-hot Atlanta Braves and what Mississippi lost with the death of the great Ralph Boston.

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28:18

Not just another mock draft.

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2023/04/26

What Mississippi and the world don’t need is another NFL mock draft. There have been hundreds upon hundreds in recent weeks. Instead, the Cleveland boys examine past New Orleans Saints drafts: the good, the bad and the downright ugly. They also look at what Mississippi guys are likely to go early, looking at you Emanuel Forbes and Jonathan Mingo.

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17:04

Only in Mississippi…

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2023/04/19

Only in Mississippi would you find the last two college baseball national champions playing a regular season game that draws more than 16,000 in attendance for one game and more than 43,000 for a weekend series. The Clevelands discuss the weekend’s Egg Bowl baseball series at Starkville, USM’s weekend sweep of James Madison and more in college baseball. As a bonus, Tyler tells Rick about the football spring games, which Rick was all too happy to miss.

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24:52

Talking The Masters and Mississippi college baseball

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2023/04/12

It was John Rahm’s wet and windy world at The Masters and nobody could keep up with him. In college baseball, Ole Miss and Mississippi State get ready for their annual three-game series that the Rebels haven’t won since 2015.

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23:34

A tradition unlike any other

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2023/04/05

The college basketball season is in the books after another exciting Final Four, but the focus this week is on Augusta National and the 2023 Masters. The Cleveland boys break down the favorites, and Rick gives his perspective from years of playing the course and covering the tournament.

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20:21

It’s baseball season in Mississippi but tornadoes...

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2023/03/29

On an otherwise pleasant Mississippi Monday, Rick visited Amory and Tyler headed to Rolling Fork. Those two tornado ravaged towns, 159 miles apart, face a long recovery and rebuilding will include new baseball fields. In Amory, Rick visited Joe Burrow’s grandparents, who rode out the EF4 tornado in the storm cellar they built beneath their home of 60 years.

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29:16

How sweet it is for Ole Miss and ‘Coach Yo’

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2023/03/22

Rick’s gone golfing in the great Southwest and the Ole Miss women are dancing their way to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Tyler’s joined by guest co-host and WJTV’s own Blake Levine, as they break down the Rebels’ stunning win over top-seeded Stanford, their Elite 8 matchup with Louisville and try to shake the early-season baseball blues. Plus, Blake explains how a Los Angeles native and Syracuse-educated broadcaster ends up in Mississippi.

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