by Mark Nagi | Dec 2, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman On November 11th, Tennessee’s men’s basketball team opened the season with a road game against Xavier. A late Vols rally fell a bit short in a hostile environment, with the Musketeers hanging on for a 67-63 victory. The next day on local sports talk...
by Steve Williams | Dec 2, 2013 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Jeff Francis resigned as sideline reporter for the Vol Network in 2007 to spend more time with his family. Much of that time has been coaching his sons’ football teams. This season was Francis’ ninth coaching youth football and it was highlighted by...
by Ray Hill | Dec 1, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Congressman Ross Bass had been elected to the United States Senate in 1964 to fill out the remainder of the late Senator Estes Kefauver’s term of office. Senator Bass had to face the voters again in 1966 and the campaign would be a repeat of 1964, with...
by Steve Hunley | Nov 24, 2013 | Archives, Hunley
By Steve Hunley Suddenly Knox County teachers are beginning to let the public know about the unreasonable constraints they have been laboring under for the last several years. Finally they have allowed their dismay and dissatisfaction to explode after literally...
by Ray Hill | Nov 24, 2013 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Having won a second six-year term in 1958 over serious opposition, Albert Gore returned to the Senate. Although he had won a smashing reelection victory against former Governor Prentice Cooper, Gore believed the campaign left him with political scars that...
by design | Nov 18, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson It’s hard not to write about something on your mind or something that’s in your body. I have a family history of colon and prostate cancer and as a result my doctors have their way with me on a regular basis. I no longer watch NBC because of its...