by Joe Rector | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector COVID-19 has just about worn all of us out. We aren’t used to being confined for such long periods of time. Many people haven’t been out except to the grocery store for a year. Yes, some have developed rather snippy, hateful dispositions, but although...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com It is always heartening to see. An entire week in women’s basketball is designated for teams to wear tee shirts with their team colors. Every shirt bears the same message: “We Back Pat.” The carefully chosen words reference the...
by Tom Mattingly | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly There was always a special feeling to working in the William B. Stokely Athletics Center with Haywood Harris and Bud Ford. Many, if not most, of us who worked there had walked the rolling hills of campus, had sat in the classrooms, and had a personal...
by Mark Nagi | Feb 22, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi It is just after midnight local time as I write this article from 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. That makes it 5 a.m. in Knoxville. I’m coming back from a vacation in Hawaii. This was my first time out there. It took me 48 years to make the journey...
by Steve Hunley | Feb 21, 2021 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley The Passing of Rush Limbaugh I cannot let the passing of Rush Limbaugh go by without comment. To say Rush Limbaugh was merely a radio talk show host would be comparable to attempting to pass off a mouse as an elephant. A man of formidable...
by Ray Hill | Feb 21, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Sam R. Sells, the congressman from Tennessee’s First Congressional District, was a successful, forty-nine year-old businessman when he faced a challenge inside the Republican primary from Carroll Reece. Reece was not quite thirty-one years old, well-...
