It’s football time in Tennessee

Marvin Westwestwords

A beautiful basketball season is finished. Today the game changes. To quote the great John Ward, it is football time in Tennessee.
Admiral Schofield and Grant Williams can take a bow …

Old Vol Buddy Cruze dead at 84

Marvin Westwestwords

Kyle “Buddy” Cruze, one of Knoxville’s greatest-ever athletes, is dead. He was 84.
Cruze was a football, basketball and track star at Knoxville High in the closing year of the school, …

Football question: Do opposites attract?

Marvin Westwestwords

Scientists debate whether opposites attract. In trying to explain Alabama man Jeremy Pruitt’s choice of Joe Osovet for his UT football staff, I say maybe yes, maybe no, depends on …

UT recruiting: We’ll find out later

Marvin Westwestwords

We’ll find out later, in a couple of years, what Jeremy Pruitt found at the end of his first recruiting rainbow. Unless a miracle happens, it won’t be a pot …

Kahlil McKenzie: Ready or not?

Marvin Westwestwords

If we can just get past the Super Bowl, we can begin to concentrate on more important things.
The NFL combine assembles in late February. The draft is in late April. …

Help is on the way

Marvin Westwestwords

Butch probably won’t like this but you may.
It appears new coach Jeremy Pruitt has figured out what thousands of fans knew all along, that Tyler Byrd was one of the …

Alabama man: A matter of perspective

Marvin Westwestwords

It appears Alabama fans have had time to process developments. It does take a while.
Supposedly, there are some who believe Phillip Fulmer realized he was on mission impossible, gave up …

Remembering Bobby Gratz

Marvin Westwestwords

When Mack Gentry reminisces about the late Bobby Gratz, his very good friend, we sit up straight and listen.
“Bobby had a creative side. He wrote poetry. He designed and built …