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 …
Classy lady, dear friend Nancy Siler is gone
This is not easy – unless you smile.
Telling you about the life and death of Nancy Siler, 94, is too much like saying goodbye to your mother. She wasn’t old …
Old Vol Buddy Cruze dead at 84
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, …
SEC legends and not
The tournament was fun. There were spectacular plays and a couple of great games and one strange development.
The Southeastern Conference is still trying to stay in step. It encourages audience …
Cheers for the champions
Champs!
Now there is a word that says something. And it sure sounds good.
Being the champion of Southeastern Conference basketball is particularly meaningful. We have learned the hard way that titles …
Barnes’ exciting Vols are wildly inconsistent
Funny thing about Rick Barnes’ disregard for coach-of-the-year conversation. He didn’t know anything about it and wasn’t interested in learning.
How could that be, you ask?
Wrong award. Doesn’t fit the fine …
Football question: Do opposites attract?
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 …
Powell Alumni Association is very young 100
The Powell High Alumni Association is not showing its age. At 100 years old, it is skipping merrily along, soliciting money for more and better scholarships and making big plans …