It has become a chilling certainty. Each summer as high school football practice begins, those of us who follow the sport closely hold our collective breath and hope this will be the year that no one succumbs to the blistering heat.
Mark July 13 on your calendars. That's the day Chattanooga attempts to regain custody of the baby it birthed 15 years ago before a bunch of charlatans from Memphis stole her away.
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletics Association must be mightily impressed with the quality of the state's education system. Otherwise it would never have instituted a new football playoff format that only Einstein or Bill Gates could decipher.
There was stunned silence for several seconds after the TSSAA Board of Control voted Wednesday to award Cookeville a two-year contract to host the BlueCross Bowl.
Taylor Harris is a still a year away from a regular roster spot on the Fury Fastpitch 16-under softball team. A rising sophomore at Girls Preparatory School, the catcher will spend most of this summer on the Fury’s 14-under squad.
Certainly one of the great benefits of my job, and probably the aspect I treasure the most, is the relationships I’ve developed with coaches and athletes in our community over a 20-year period.