Setting the stage

By Tom Mattingly Most Tennessee fans see visiting teams at Neyland Stadium trot onto the field to a scattered chorus of boos, but that’s just part of the story. There’s drama underneath the south end after each game precious few people get to witness. The current...

Tennessee Athletics Ascending

By Mark Nagi Is this a good time to be a fan of athletics at the University of Tennessee?  Yes, my friend, it most certainly is. Following the firing of Phillip Fulmer as the Vols head coach in 2008, Tennessee was in the darkness for over a decade.  Football was a...

Connections

You can lead someone to knowledge, but you can’t make him think. Anonymous By Dr. Jim Ferguson You can teach an old dog new tricks, and I offer myself as an example. Since my retirement, I have added doing wash, vacuuming and cleaning toilets to my resume which has...

Remembering Corryton’s Hero on Memorial Day

  By Ralphine Major The memorial is beautiful and so well deserved.  It is a lasting tribute to Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss, the last one of the thirteen American heroes killed in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.  Only steps away from where the temporary memorial...

My Rebel Life

By Joe Rector The picture with my column is several years old. I’m not sure anyone would recognize me now, although I don’t think I’ve changed one bit. Readers don’t much care what a writer looks like as long as the man or woman has something interesting to say. I’m...

The NAACP’s Travel Advisory

By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com You can tell who the left fears by the hit pieces that suddenly appear in their newspapers, on their networks and their sycophants like Black Lives Matter, Move On and the NAACP. Make no doubt about it,...