by Steve Williams | Jan 9, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Tennessee’s 38-24 win over Nebraska in the Music City Bowl amounted to putting a Band-Aid over its scratched up 2016 football season. It hid a little bit of the Vanderbilt beating, but the overall pain resulting from the scarred and injury-riddled...
by Steve Williams | Jan 3, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams College football would eventually suffer if more and more high-profile players do like LSU’s Leonard Fournette and Stanford’s Christian McCaffery did and skip their bowl games to prepare for the NFL draft. This would particularly be true if big-name...
by Steve Williams | Dec 27, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams The news that George Quarles was leaving Maryville High for Furman University was surprising but understandable. Quarles could have made the move to the college ranks years ago had he chose to do so. This time the opportunity and situation afforded...
by Steve Williams | Dec 19, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Dear Santa, It’s that time of year when I send you a list of things I would like to see in the world of sports. This year though it’s going to be a little different. I’m focusing on Tennessee football and specifically head coach Butch Jones. He...
by Steve Williams | Nov 28, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Western Michigan, the only unbeaten team in the College Football Playoff rankings other than Alabama, has been on College Gameday and is in the hunt for a Cotton Bowl bid. But the thing the Broncos would like the most but won’t get from the CFP...
by Steve Williams | Nov 21, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams It was great to see homegrown Jordan Bowden make his first start as a Tennessee Volunteer and respond with a good shooting night on top of that last week against Appalachian State at Thompson-Boling Arena. The former Carter High star made a 3-point...
