by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Rector lips By Joe Rector One of the things I love about my wife Amy is that she is slow to anger. Perhaps that’s the reason we’ve been married for so long. The Good Lord knows I’ve done and said enough things over the years to make her pop a blood vessel. Unlike my...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Major
Wrapping up 2022, Greeting 2023! By Ralphine Major Ho! Ho! Ho! It really did snow! A trace amount two days before Christmas and light snow the day after bookended the highly anticipated Christmas Day with white. Though a sharp contrast to the heavy-laden...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Nagi
Lumps of Coal All Around By Mark Nagi The Christmas season is finishing up but there is still time to hand out lumps of coal for those in the sporting world. We’ll do this for no rhyme or reason, on a local, national, and even international scale. If they played...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Spring practice started when? By Tom Mattingly In the spring of 1936, Maj. Robert R. Neyland had returned to Knoxville looking to pick up where he had left off in his first tenure as head coach of the University of Tennessee football team (1926-34). He had...
by design | Jan 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Congressman Burchett Is Right Our own Congressman Tim Burchett didn’t have any kind words for TVA following the rolling blackouts over the Christmas Holidays which saw Knoxville and East Tennessee struggling through brutally cold weather. ...
by design | Jan 2, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Tennessee’s Modern Republican Party: Dan Kuykendall, Part V By Ray Hill Texas native Dan Kuykendall had settled in Memphis, Tennessee. Like many others, Kuykendall came to Tennessee because of a job. Kuykendall had been a regional manager for Proctor & Gamble. ...
