The clock started ticking Friday morning on the final year of Bobby Cox's legendary run as the manager of the Atlanta Braves.

Dr. Clif Cleaveland and his wife live on Signal Mountain. He practiced internal medicine in Chattanooga until retiring in 2004.

The Southeastern Conference long has claimed to have the best football this side of the NFL. The coaches are the highest paid and the talent is always top-notch.

The roller coaster that has been year one of the Lane Kiffin Era at the University of Tennessee was forever changed Thursday morning. Three freshmen, one brandishing a pellet gun, awkwardly attempting a heist of what ultimately would have yielded just a cheeseburger has become the focal moment of this season.

Memphis dismissed former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Clemson football coach Tommy West on Monday morning, and Western Kentucky fired David Elson.

In the program's first postseason football game, the Signal Mountain Eagles showed some nerves Friday night.

There is a handful of accepted football realities for the Southeastern Conference and its followers.

Whether you're willing to admit it or not, Joe Q. Baseball Fan needed the New York Yankees to make it to the World Series.

The painful theme here is not Lane Kiffin's irresistible urge to say anything at any time, though that certainly is a theme in his first 10-plus months as the University of Tennessee football coach.

Lane Kiffin has talked, recruited and even occasionally coached his way into the headlines. Most of this was part of his plan in his first year as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee.