by design | Jan 23, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
The Truest Thing I Know By Joe Rector The first one was a fictional novel about rivals turned friends who weave their lives in baseball. The second book was a confessional about the mistakes I made with my son during the years he played baseball. Unknown to...
by design | Jan 23, 2023 | Columnist, Nagi
UConn comes to town By Mark Nagi For 13 years, whenever Tennessee faced UConn in women’s basketball, the world of American sports took notice. Hall of Fame coaches. Hall of Fame players. Rabid fan bases. High stakes. And on Thursday night, that rivalry will be renewed...
by design | Jan 23, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
A Triumphant Trip By Tom Mattingly When Tennessee squared off against New York University on Dec. 5, 1931, at Yankee Stadium, it may not have been an officially recognized bowl game (the NCAA doesn’t count this and other Depression-era bowl games in all-time records),...
by design | Jan 22, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Jesse Wolcott of Michigan By Ray Hill Short, chunky, and bespectacled, Jesse Wolcott looked more like a small town lawyer or accountant than the ideal of a congressman. Yet the framers of the Constitution meant for the House of Representatives to be the people’s House...
by design | Jan 22, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley State Legislature To Consider County Primary Election Change The Tennessee General Assembly has begun its new session and legislators are busy dropping bills, organizing committees and getting underway. One of the more interesting proposals is...
by design | Jan 16, 2023 | Black, Columnist
Skinfolk or Kinfolk? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com In the recent kerfuffle over the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Byron Donalds (R-FL) was nominated as an alternative to Kevin McCarthy. Donalds is one of four black...
