by design | Nov 18, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
The Return of Grumors By Mark Nagi So Tennessee football is in a really good place right now. Yes, this article is being written before the Vols play at Georgia, but whether they won or lost by 50, UT is in better shape in terms of their football program than it has...
by design | Nov 18, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘A vigorous competitor, strong on sniffing out a good story and then getting it’ By Tom Mattingly In the days Knoxville had two newspapers, the morning Knoxville Journal and the afternoon Knoxville News-Sentinel, each paper covered the sporting scene...
by design | Nov 17, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Trump Cabinet Selections Going Very Well By Steve Hunley President-elect Donald Trump is beginning to name those he intends to nominate for places in his second administration and the difference is already apparent. Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, has...
by design | Nov 17, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Last of the Gray Wolves: James Bowler By Ray Hill I would be shocked if a single reader of this column, which draws some of the best-informed people on political history in many instances, has heard of James B. Bowler before. Yet he is notable for a few reasons,...
by design | Nov 11, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
Seeing a light at the end of the tunnel By Tom Mattingly You may not remember it, but there was once a 9-3 Tennessee team in 1983 that was not ranked by the Associated Press (AP) during the entire season. It’s all there in black agate type on p. 333 of the “2023...
by design | Nov 11, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
The Four Main Issues That Gave Trump The Victory (Part One) By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com There never has been a major party nominee for president like Donald Trump, and there probably never will be again. If you had told me before Trump that either...
