Former Dresden football coach Scott Hewett died Thursday after a short illness. He was 72. Services were held Saturday, March 8 at Southside Church of Christ in Dresden with Will Norrid …

Back in 1976, some folks from Gleason High School approached a local farmer, riding a tractor on his field. After a few minutes’ discussion, the farmer climbed off the tractor to become Gleason …

Florida State basketball coach  Leonard Hamilton, a former basketball player at The University of Tennessee at Martin, announced he will be stepping down at the end of the season. He is the …

Thursday, Tennessee’s 19 th -ranked Lady Vols were rude hosts to No. 5 Connecticut. For the first time since 2007, UT vanquished the Huskies, 80-76. Tennessee maybe entering the burgeoning …

So, it appears that I spoke presciently about SEC basketball. To quote a college basketball coach I once covered, remarking about the depth of his conference: “Every game is a war.” …

During the Tuesday, January 21 County Commission meeting, Weakley County Mayor Dale Hutcherson read a proclamation celebrating the Westview Lady Chargers basketball team. The Lady Chargers …

Tennessee basketball, both men and women, has gotten off to a pretty good start in 2024-25. The Tennessee men roared to a 16-0 start an earned a No. 1 national ranking by the Associated Press, a …

Back in the late 80s, I would be laying out the sports pages for one of the myriad newspapers I worked for. I often was alone upstairs on those Monday nights and I’d bring my transistor radio …

I recall covering the University of Tennessee’s Fiesta Bowl media day prior to its national championship bout with Florida State back in December of 1998. Then-UT coach Phillip Fulmer was …

In the post-mortem of Tennessee’s disastrous football playoff outing at Ohio State, I’ve come to several realizations. When this pairing was announced, all the pundits said that …

It seems as soon as the sulfur smell emitted by Fourth-of-July fireworks dissipates, the retailers are already stocking their shelves with Christmas items. We’ve barely gone back to work …

This was a generational-type season for Martin-Westview freshman quarterback Graham Simpson. The scary thing is, for opponents of the Chargers, Simpson is only a freshman. Tuesday at …

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) will host a public event on December 13, 2024, to commission a new tugboat named "Summitt," honoring the legendary Lady Vols basketball coach Pat …

Entering Friday morning’s 3A state championship game in Chattanooga, Alcoa had won the last nine state titles. Martin-Westview found out why. The Chargers were subdued by a potent …

When I was a pre-teen, probably going back to the late 1960s to early 1970s, I became a huge football fan. I loved the pageantry of the college game and the intensity of the NFL. I grew up in a …

Martin-Westview freshman quarter, and 3A Mr. Football finalist, Graham Simpson was 29-37 passing for 372  yards, including a string of 18 consecutive completions to end the game and four …

In November of 1973, my family was about to move from Florida to Tennessee and my dad flew us up here to give it a look-see. I remember staying at what was the Holiday Inn in Milan, watching TV. …

Martin-Westview freshman quarterback Graham Simpson was 24-34 for 367 yards and threw four touchdowns as the host Chargers defeated visiting Covington 28-14 in the Class 3A state quarterfinals Friday …

A long time ago, on the TV show M*A*S*H, Corporal Klinger was stressing over replacing Radar as company clerk. Radar’s clerical skills were legendary and Klinger never thought he’d …

All day Saturday, people asked me who I thought would win the Tennessee-Georgia game. The line was 9.5 points. I said I thought Georgia would cover. It did. Georgia did more than that. …