by design | Oct 11, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Life as we know it has taken a number of interesting turns. Venues such as the Orange Bowl in Miami, Crosley Field and Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, the old Yankee Stadium and Comiskey Park, and Tiger Stadium in...
by design | Oct 4, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Whenever he discussed his time as “Voice of the Vols,” 1952-67, broadcaster George Mooney always remembered the good times. In the spring of 1952, at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Gen. Robert R. Neyland had asked him to broadcast the Tennessee games....
by design | Sep 27, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly One of the joys of advancing geezerdom is having a storehouse of memories from seeing the great moments in University of Tennessee sports live, moments that younger fans today can only see on film, videotape, or any of the other advances in technology...
by design | Sep 20, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Rarely have three consecutive December Saturdays been as significant as Dec. 4, Dec. 11, and Dec. 18 were in 1965. The time was Doug Dickey’s second season as head coach. At age 33, Dickey had compiled an 8-1-2 1965 record following a fallow period...
by design | Sep 13, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly That’s what the Latin scholars might say, a fancy way of asking, “Which way are you going?” With that in mind, have more big plays happened with the Vols moving to the north end or the south end of the field, wherever the game might be? For...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly The year was 1971, 50 years ago. Neyland Stadium seated 64,429, with a new southwest upper deck scheduled to open in 1972. Fifty years is an eternity by anybody’s standards, but for veteran Vol fans, 1971 was an amazing time, a season that had enough...
