by Steve Williams | Jan 12, 2015 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Tennessee fans. I can’t say they’re the best, because I haven’t been to every collegiate sports venue in the nation and observed the many other fans bases. But I can say this. There can’t be any better. Vol Nation was in the spotlight again on Jan. 2...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 12, 2015 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman There are two constants in life. The first I forget. The second is that the Tennessee Titans will continue to be the most boring team in the National Football League. They haven’t won a playoff game since the 2003 season and haven’t been to the...
by Ralphine Major | Jan 11, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It felt like I was stepping back in time as I walked inside. In a way, I was. I had only seen Becky once since our high school days in band. Two and a half years ago, I saw her at the Wrights’ 70th Anniversary (Focus 9-4-12). She had made...
by design | Jan 11, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher Cha-ching. That is the sound of the Knox County Schools Board of Education spending more of your tax dollars. At last Monday’s Work Meeting, Dr. McIntyre, in his Superintendent’s Report, laid out his plan to address the substitute teacher shortage....
by Ray Hill | Jan 11, 2015 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Prentice Cooper had been governor of Tennessee for six years; the first man to be elected to three two-year terms since Austin Peay. Unlike Peay, Cooper lived through his entire tenure of office, but in 1944, he could not run again. Governor Cooper was a...
by Mark Nagi | Jan 5, 2015 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman The smartest guy in the room… well, the guy who thinks he is the smartest guy in the room… he’s never really the smartest guy in the room, you know? The smartest guy in the room is actually so smart that he makes sure that no one knows that he is the...
