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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