Contrasts

Undocumented immigrants are the people Democrats care about most. Senator Chris Murphy By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve been thinking … Would it be easier to admit that you were wrong and change your ways or would you deny reality and double down on your mistakes? Democrats...

How I Became A Batboy

By John J. Duncan Jr. One night in the summer of 1958, Joe Seymour, batboy for the visiting team playing against the Knoxville Smokies, fell and broke his arm running to get a stretcher for a player who had been hit in the head by a ball thrown by a Smokies pitcher. I...

The Legacy of Rick Barnes

By Mark Nagi Back in 2015, Tennessee’s men’s basketball program was reeling. They had just fired Donnie Tyndall after one season due to potential NCAA rules violations he committed while at Southern Miss. The Vols would now be looking for their third coach in four...

Football Trips and Trains

By Tom Mattingly When you think about it, trains have been involved in several memorable moments in the history of Tennessee football, way before the 1972 game at Georgia when Vol fans rode a chartered train from Atlanta to Athens. Three of us—Doug Jones, Jim Gentry,...

The Day Everything Changed

  By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor The day that Jesus Christ died, darkness settled across the sky, not as a gentle dimming, but as a suffocating shroud that swallowed the light of day. The air was heavy. The ground groaned beneath the...