by Steve Williams | Mar 27, 2016 | Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams Charlie Byrd introduced his sons to the game of baseball years ago. He coached them and watched them play in many games. But what his eyes saw on a beautiful early spring afternoon last week was a first. Matt and Jonathan “Turtle” Byrd were on...
by Steve Williams | Mar 7, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams I put in a phone call to the University of Tennessee men’s basketball office shortly after Rick Barnes was named the Vols’ new head coach last year and left him a message about Jordan Bowden, who had just finished an outstanding high school career on...
by Steve Williams | Feb 22, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams This and that: Last Friday afternoon’s unseasonably warmer weather, with the temperature in the 60s, came just in time for Tennessee’s baseball season opener against Memphis. It reminded me of how often hot summer days in late August suddenly give...
by Steve Williams | Feb 15, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
Football owed him one. The celebration he was wrongfully denied when his name wasn’t called as the winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1997 was replaced with an unexpected championship in Super Bowl 50. After 19 years, justice has been served for Peyton Manning. He can...
by Steve Williams | Feb 8, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams There were some happy moments in Big Orange Country last week. (Hey Jimmy Cheek, this is still Big Orange Country isn’t it?) While I wait on an answer to that question, let’s review the good times of the past few days … Rick Barnes, despite not...
by Steve Williams | Feb 1, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Holly Warlick has lost more basketball games than she wanted to this season, but she hasn’t lost her sense of humor. In the middle of an interview on the Lady Vol Illustrated radio show last week, the night after another turnover-riddled showing by...
