Chattanooga Lookouts owner Frank Burke would like to extend the new partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he has an influential voice in his corner.

For years, friends Tamara Salter and Pat Goldsmith talked about a taking long paddling trip together. The problem they encountered is that most overnight trips in kayaks or canoes are difficult to organize and hard to make a reality.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda is visiting AT&T Field this week for the first time since the Chattanooga Lookouts became the organization's Double-A affiliate last September.

On the face of it, the following three news stories from Wednesday would appear to have little in common:

This 4 lb. bass swallowed a bluegill Jesse Hullender caught at a private dock on Lake Chickamauga in Soddy.

Howard School of Academics and Technology girls' basketball and track coach Stanley Jackson has not been rehired by the school. Jackson coached the track team each of the last two years, guiding the Lady Hustlin' Tigers to the program's first Class A/AA state championship in more than 20 years. The girls' basketball team finished 10-12 last season in his first year as head coach.

Ramon Nivar keeps looking up, and so do things for the Chattanooga Lookouts.

Jair Jurrjens allowed his first hit with two outs in the seventh inning on a night the Atlanta Braves finally gave him some run support, beating the reeling Philadelphia Phillies 11-1 on Wednesday.

A judge lifted Jeremy Mayfield’s drug suspension Wednesday, saying the NASCAR driver is free to race at Daytona this weekend.

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