The University of Mississippi Athletics
Langston Rogers Earns Eighth Hall of Fame Honor
4/28/2017 | Athletics
SCOOBA, Miss. - There aren't many halls of fame left for longtime Ole Miss sports information director Langston Rogers.
On Tuesday, the veteran publicist represented East Mississippi Community College as one of 15 individuals inducted into the Mississippi Community and Junior College Sports Hall of Fame during the 11th annual awards banquet held at the Clyde Muse Center on Hinds Community College's Rankin Campus. It was Rogers' eighth hall of fame honor.
One of the most respected and decorated SIDs in the history of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) organization, Rogers got his illustrious communications career in intercollegiate athletics started on the EMCC campus.
Recruited to Scooba in 1961 by the legendary Hall of Fame football coach Bob "Bull" Sullivan, Rogers earned a baseball scholarship in addition to serving as the Lions' publicity director and team statistician for two years. While also working as the editor of the school newspaper, The Collegian, Rogers was voted president of EMJC's student body as a sophomore.
A native of Calhoun City, Rogers continued his education at Delta State University in Cleveland, where he played baseball and eventually became DSU's first full-time sports information director. He moved on to Ole Miss in 1981, where he spent 29 years supervising the Rebels' athletics media relations office until his retirement in 2010.
Rogers has earned nearly every conceivable honor in his chosen profession during his storied 48-year career in sports publicity within the Magnolia State. He received the prestigious Arch Ward Award in 2001, presented annually to a CoSIDA member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of college sports information and is the highest award presented to a member of that national organization. Rogers, who served as president of CoSIDA, has also earned the organization's Trailblazer Award and Lifetime Achievement Award as well as having the CoSIDA Postgraduate Scholarship named in his honor.
A 2013 Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Rogers is also a Hall of Fame member of CoSIDA, Delta State Alumni, Ole Miss Athletics, Delta State Sports, EMCC Sports and the Mississippi Sports Writers Association.
