by design | Dec 15, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Over the years, traveling to various venues on the SEC basketball circuit was not for the faint of heart. In earlier years, it was a tough task, night-in and night-out, 18 games played home-and-home. Things haven’t changed very much today. Making the...
by design | Dec 8, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Over the years, there has been a distinct tendency for Americans to remember with great precision where they were when major world events took place. They might recall the assassinations of President Kennedy in 1963, Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Martin...
by design | Dec 1, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Winning in someone else’s stadium’ By Tom Mattingly In a lifetime of watching or writing about sports, there’s occasionally something special happening under your nose, and, if you’re not careful, you might miss it. That would really be unfortunate....
by design | Nov 24, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘One of those oddities that worked, like throwing the dice and winning’ By Tom Mattingly When Allen Spain, who has an amazing collection of Tennessee “stuff,” recently sent a videotape of the ABC broadcast of the 1968 Georgia and Alabama games, it brought...
by design | Nov 10, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘The Hurrying Hungarian’ By Tom Mattingly When I once asked Vol fans to name the legendary figures over the course of Tennessee football history, the first fan who responded nominated George Cafego, the legendary Vol tailback from 1937-39 and equally...
by design | Nov 3, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
Interesting happenings in the visiting team area after the game By Tom Mattingly Tennessee fans across the expanse of Neyland Stadium see visiting teams trot onto the field to a scattered chorus of boos, but that’s just part of the story. There’s drama underneath the...
