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...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
War is hell. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman By Dr. Jim Ferguson I am glad that I had to start over on this essay, which I began before President Trump’s...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. The week before last, I told the story of how I became a batboy and how Earl Weaver became a manager for the Knoxville Smokies. Weaver went on to become a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles. I said in that column that I thought there...
