by Steve Williams | Feb 26, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams My favorite night at high school basketball tournament time has for years been the region semifinals. This is the game, I believe, when the pressure is the thickest. A win takes a little of the pressure off as it puts a team in the region finals and...
by Steve Williams | Feb 12, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams There is a scene in the popular movie Hoosiers that came to mind when I heard some fans’ reaction to Jeremy Pruitt’s first National Signing Day recruiting class as UT’s new head football coach. “We want Jimmy,” chanted students as Hickory High’s...
by Steve Williams | Feb 4, 2018 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams South-Doyle’s girls wrapped up the Knox County middle school regular season basketball championship last week and they could give the school’s boys’ team an assist for that accomplishment. Eric Brabson, who coaches both the girls’ and boys’ teams,...
by Steve Williams | Jan 29, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams It’s been over 40 years, but longtime Austin-East fans haven’t forgotten the glory years of Roadrunner basketball. The school gave Knox County its first state championship in the TSSAA’s classification era when Elston Turner led A-E to the Class AAA...
by Steve Williams | Jan 21, 2018 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams As I was going back to my car to get the camera to take pictures of the recent District 4 high school bowling tournament, I noticed a teenage boy coming in to Family Bowl wearing leg braces and using a walker. Otherwise, he looked healthy. Maybe he...
by Steve Williams | Jan 8, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Sometimes you just have to stand up for yourself. The University of Central Florida did that last week and proclaimed its football team the 2017 national champion. The Knights had a parade in Orlando, put the “We’re No. 1” news on billboards,...
