by design | Apr 14, 2026 | The Daily Focus
~ from the Knox County Regional Forensic Center On Monday, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center released its 2025 Drug-Related Death Report, a 23-page record that details the illicit drug use trends of the past year inside Knox and Anderson counties. The data,...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi What in the name of Abby Conklin is going on here? The Tennessee Lady Vols, one of the most revered and history-making programs in all of women’s basketball, has seen a mass defection. Four players (Janiah Barker, Zee Spearman, Nya Robertson, Jersey...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Here’s the question for today. If “The Stop” against LSU in 1959 is the greatest defensive play in Tennessee history, what play comes in second? Here’s one man’s opinion of such game-changing defensive plays, starting with s second look at “The...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor It hangs there every night; silent, massive and impossibly distant. Almost 240,000 miles away, the moon drifts in perfect rhythm, revolving around the Earth. It’s so large in diameter that if placed across...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I ran across a new comedian on YouTube. His schtick covered games children played years ago. That fired my memories about those things that we used to do for fun or amusement back in my childhood. Some of those activities were absurd, while others...
