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Kudos to the Weekleys for hanging with Ivy Renfroe in the seventh inning last night. She appeared to be faltering, and the Bulldogs have a season-long record of being a comeback team. Nonetheless, the coaches rode the rapids with their starter and were rewarded, along with all of us, at the end...

It would, of course, entail some substantial risk for UT, but I would like to recommend that AD Hamilton consider hiring George Quarles, the Maryville High School coach as our next head coach of varsity football. His record, entirely in the high school ranks, is outstanding. His teams have won...

Today's upset win over Kansas was certainly a signature win, about as big as a win can get. What seems to have happened, slowly but surely, in recent years is that the attention-grabbing wins that used to happen in football now happen primarily in basketball. Coach Pearl seems to have a flair...

The conflict between the "Battlin' Smiths" illustrates one of the difficulties of recruiting---players who have never met instinctively disliking, if not hating, each other. Ramar was from Metropolitan Detroit and Tyler was from southern Tennessee, so there was no long-term basis for their...

Last night's game was, in my opinion, one for the ages. A one-point win would have been acceptable to all of us, under the circumstances. But the Vols went out and drilled Charlotte, as just about none of us would have predicted, getting significant production from understudy players forced to...

I could easily be wrong, but I think a fair part of the UK animus toward UT is based upon the utter futility of their football team against the Vols. Ten losses in a row would be a lot, but 25 is almost unimaginable. If we lost to Alabama as frequently as they have to us, just imagine the verbal...

That's what I just read on his blog at the WATE website, for what it's worth.

And, of course, the common opponent was Western Michigan.

The last year Kelly coached at Central Michigan, he actually coached two bowl-winning teams. He led Central to a win in the Motor City Bowl then, when there was no one left to coach Cincinnati in their bowl at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, he took them over early and led them to a victory over...

Personally, I see the Cal game as being a very challenging opener. I think any kind of win, including a one-point squeaker, will be just fine. The Golden Bears will be big, tough, experienced, and hell-bent for revenge. The Vols will have to be ready, right from the opening kickoff.

When very good teams are involved, softball becomes too much like soccer. By that, I mean there is almost no scoring.

What is the basis of Tyler Smith's appeal to the NCAA for an exclusion from the usual 1-year waiting policy following a transfer?

One thing that won't help is that Cal got embarrassed last season. Their players and coaches won't easily forget that, so they'll be in a state of high readiness.

Mooney is almost certainly the man I had in mind. Lindsey Nelson was already a national announcer by then. Thanks for the help.

I once saw him coach in high school, before he came to UT. He coached at a school called West Tech in Cleveland, Ohio. He did a very unique thing during the course of the game I saw. His team got off to a sizable lead, so he had them go into a stall for about the last four or five minutes of the...