Vols can now look to the future

Marvin Westwestwords

Looking back, looking ahead …
Tennessee’s rapid-fire offense became a little less efficient, no running game, two turnovers, still a blazing rocket but more show than impact. As predicted, Georgia prevailed …

Incredible victory over Wildcats and clock

Marvin Westwestwords

Something like what happened in Lexington supposedly happened twice previously in football history but you can’t prove it by me.
Kentucky, formerly No. 18 in the country, could not contain Tennessee’s …

Rick Barnes’ philosophy may be changing

Marvin Westwestwords

Lo, these many years, I have believed what I was told, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
It seemed logical that people who have long been swimming a particular …

Tennessee, Kentucky approaching crossroads

Marvin Westwestwords

Tennessee has a new problem.
That crash you heard over the weekend was coach Mark Stoops and his Kentucky Wildcats coming back to Earth. They landed on the hard rocks of …

Stadium recollections, highlights, tall tales

Marvin Westwestwords

This is part of history: Very few people called Robert R. Neyland to attention and told him how things were going to be.
University of Tennessee trustees asked The General if it would …

Mike Lucci, star of Vols and NFL, dead at 81

Marvin Westwestwords

“They don’t make ’em like they used to.”
That’s what people said in times past about Chevrolet, Coca-Cola and Whirlpool. It still fits Mike Lucci.
Sixty years ago, Lucci was a 60-minute …