by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Overblown emotions on games By Joe Rector (This piece was written a couple of weeks ago, but it continues for sports fans every weekend.) At this moment, I’m sitting on a couch at my daughter’s house in Hendersonville. I’m watching the Vols piddle away a football game...
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
A classic case of getting people’s attention By Tom Mattingly Interesting things can happen when one coach leaves and another takes his place. For the new coach, it’s a classic case of getting people’s attention and showing they mean business. Things get “real.” Very...
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
Tennessee/Alabama is finally a rivalry By Mark Nagi For 16 years, Nick Saban ruled the world of college football. He built a freight train at Alabama, and at times it felt like it would never run out of gas. There was nowhere that pain was felt more than Knoxville....
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Trump’s tariffs: A Primer By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Donald Trump calls himself the Tariff Man. He loves tariffs and calls them “the greatest thing ever invented.” He wants a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, an across-the-board 20%...
by design | Oct 28, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Some Of Our Leaders Are Putting Other Countries First By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Some of our leaders seem to care more about other countries, e.g., Ukraine and Israel, than they do about our own. Once again, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has...
