by Mark Nagi | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Tennessee’s football program is floundering. Recruits are de-committing. Assistant coaches are bolting. Their head coach has been in COVID-19 quarantine, not seen in nearly a month. Making matters worse, an internal investigation is underway to determine...
by Tom Mattingly | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly For fans who listened to University of Tennessee football broadcasts on WROL/ WATE/WETE, 620 on every AM radio dial, during the 1950s, 1960s, and even into the 1970s, there was some great locally produced Saturday football programming. Examples...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Major
(Part 6 in series on Dwight Kessel) By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com They met at a pledge dance at The University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville. “I spotted a cute little brunette that my fraternity brother knew,” Dwight Kessel said. It was then that he was...
by Joe Rector | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector When I was a small boy, my parents called me into the kitchen one night. They held up a pair of my pajamas; small holes were cut in both the shirt and pants. They asked me what happened to cause those cuts, and I told them that I didn’t know. I was...
by John Duncan | Jan 18, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan
By John J. Duncan Jr. Joe Biden will be sworn in as president this week, and I hope for the sake of this country that he does a good job. As I said in my last column, he has been very nice to me every time I have been around him, but I really thought he was not the...
by Steve Hunley | Jan 17, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Is it any wonder why the country is so divided, so polarized? And what happened to healing and uniting our country? That seems to have disappeared in a bubble of the purest, most poisonous, palpitating hatred I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. The left...