by Jedidiah McKeehan | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Let’s be honest, we all love to talk about ourselves and draw attention to ourselves. There is no subject on which we are more of an expert. With the invention of the internet, we are always just a few clicks away from being able to access a...
by Mark Nagi | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Last week Gibbs standout Ethan Humphries signed with Centre College, a private, liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky. Humphries ran for 1,433 yards and scored 14 touchdowns for the Eagles in 2019. We caught up with Humphries shortly after he made...
by Steve Williams | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Baseball was once considered America’s national pastime. But it lost that distinction to the popularity of football many years ago. Instead of remaining the great game it was, it has lost much, much more over the years because of some players’...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It is among Knoxville’s historic treasures linking the past with the present. I first learned about Blount Mansion as a fifth grader. Our teacher was a social studies major, and she made sure to schedule a field trip for our class to visit Blount...
by design | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore The cherry tree myth is the most well-known and longest enduring legend about George Washington. In the original story, when George was six years old, he received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree. When his father discovered what...
by Joe Rector | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I hope that everyone has survived another soggy February. It was only a year ago that the rains inundated the area and left us struggling to dodge standing water puddles and pray that roof leaks didn’t suddenly appear. I, for one, have never done...
