Indeed, time flies. The season has changed right before our eyes. Football players are returning to work. Thousands of fans have switched from picnics and good, old summertime to information …
NCAA has spoken: Now what?
Doug Jones, retired mentor of big investors and dependable reader of westwords, congratulated Phillip Fulmer for hiring the only Alabama guy who isn’t smart enough to get away with cheating.
Vince Vawter, famous …
Ben Joyce: Vol flamethrower remains a mystery
In baseball lingo, Tennessee flamethrower Ben Joyce “brings it.”
The homegrown right-hander (Farragut High Admirals, Walters State Senators and the Volunteers) delivered the fastest pitch of the college season, 105.5 miles …
Follow the leader
Nic Jacobsen, assistant track coach at Notre Dame, has followed the leader, Irish distance coach Sean Carlson, to Tennessee.
NCAA 10,000-meter champion Dylan Jacobs is transferring from Notre Dame to be a …
Hall of Fame honors Randy Sanders
The Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame is moving on up. On August 25, it will induct Randy Sanders.
He is football personified. He was a very good high school quarterback …
Tidbits: Famous transfers, coaching chain
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The significant turnover in Tennessee track and field is still turning.
NCAA 400 champion Randolph Ross confirmed that he is coming from North Carolina A&T with his …
Lindsey Nelson: Face of Tennessee
“Hello everybody, I’m Lindsey Nelson” became the opening line for network broadcasts and telecasts all across America and from some unusual places abroad.
For most of 40 years, more people saw …
Neyland to Nelson: You won’t be here very long
Never let it be said that Robert R. Neyland didn’t know a winner when he saw one.
We left Lindsey Nelson yesterday, conveniently forgiven by the coach, tutoring Tennessee Volunteers in …