by design | Mar 30, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
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,...
by design | Mar 23, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly For many years, News-Sentinel Sports Editor Tom Siler carried on a running battle with the UT Athletic Department leadership concerning kickoff times for Tennessee home football games. This came in the days when Ayres Hall and the Krystal on...
by design | Mar 16, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly “Tennessee Football… from corner to corner” was published in the preseason of 1966. Head coach Doug Dickey and captains Austin Denney and Paul Naumoff adorned the magazine’s cover. The cover raised the possibility of a trip to Miami during bowl...
by design | Mar 9, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly There are times the game-by-game scores in the Tennessee Football Record Book are just a mind-numbing array of numbers, assembled neatly over the years, stretching from that first game in 1891 through the recent years. No one has quite had the...
by design | Mar 2, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Writing assignments often appear as if by magic. That’s been the case in my writing career over the years. You’ll likely recognize many, if not all, of the names mentioned in this column. One memorable contest came in November 1971, when a...
by design | Feb 23, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Tennessee and Notre Dame squared off at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., on Nov. 3, 2001, as a crowd of 80,795 watched on a picture perfect November day. It was one of those afternoons the South Bend Chamber of Commerce would like to...
