Wiedmer: Never did we need to feel Christmas more than this year
It was Thursday afternoon, less than 24 hours from Christmas morn, and the woman was shopping just to shop.
It was Thursday afternoon, less than 24 hours from Christmas morn, and the woman was shopping just to shop.
Earlier this week, YMCA Community Action Project's Tommy Hobbs collected 20 food boxes from Silverdale Baptist and distributed them to families that YCAP serve…
There are games you can't lose, or at least shouldn't, if you expect to reach the Super Bowl. The Tennessee Titans lost just such a game Sunday.
Are we really, as we had all hoped, anywhere near the end of this pandemic and all its restrictions?
Could the University of Alabama become the only program other than fellow Southeastern Conference brother Florida to win a football and men's basketball nation…
There's much truth to the old adage that you can't choose your family, we can at least hope that when either or both of our family and friends are in need, we'…
Oh, what a difference a year makes in Big Orange Country.
It seemed like nothing more than a garbage-time touchdown pass at the time.
Larry Baker was anything but an average basketball player at Riverside High School in the spring of 1969.
The reader and old friend loves to debate, and occasionally with impressive wisdom, that the Big Ten is equal or superior to the Southeastern Conference when i…
It will end one day, this Alabama stranglehold on its Southeastern Conference football brethren. At some point, albeit at some seemingly distant moment in the …
A year from now, McCallie's football program could be celebrating a fourth straight state championship. That might be a scary thought for every other TSSAA Div…
At 7 p.m. Thursday, McCallie senior linebacker Aaron Crowder will attempt to lead his school's football program to its third straight TSSAA Division II-AAA sta…
To the casual high school football fan in and around the Scenic City, it just might be the greatest upset in Southeast Tennessee prep history.
Saturday afternoon was the perfect example of why I never bet on sports. Never. Ever.
Ron and Vicka Durby will spend Saturday afternoon the same way they've spent almost every Saturday afternoon that follows Thanksgiving since Ron was a starting…
University of Tennessee senior defensive back Theo Jackson's turn at the podium was almost over Tuesday afternoon when a soft, deep Barry White-like voice from…
Mark Wharton was all alone as he stood behind Finley Stadium's west end zone late Saturday afternoon.
Tim Morgan needs your help. Actually, the nine BlueCross Bowl games that will be played Dec. 2-4 at Finley Stadium to crown TSSAA football state champions need…
In much the same way our country always recognizes Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November, the McCallie School football program is starting to become …
Ask anyone connected with the McCallie School football program to discuss senior wide receiver Xavier Gaillardetz's numerous contributions, and his glue-finger…
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga junior defensive lineman Christian Smith knows what he'll be doing at 12:30 Sunday afternoon. So does senior offensive l…
As any Texas Longhorn football fan can angrily explain to you this week, assuming you'll win any game on your schedule just because you're a 31-point favorite …
Just in case any football fan of the University of Tennessee or the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga needed a reminder, Saturday proved once again that N…
For 42 minutes Friday night, the McCallie Blue Tornado looked every bit the part of the two-time reigning state champions they are during their TSSAA Division …
It surely seemed like the perfect spot for a Tennessee football collapse.
A question for sports fans throughout the Tennessee Valley: Did most of you just experience your best sports week ever, or at least in close to 25 years?
If ever a college football coach said what he meant and meant what he said, it was Joseph Levi Dunn.
Universal Tennis has ranked McCallie the nation's No. 2 boys' team in the country ahead of the 2021-22 high school tennis season, behind only Plano West Senior…
After entering the season with high expectations, the Atlanta Braves were going nowhere fast as late as early August.
It didn't sound like a question certain to receive a thought-provoking response.
OK, so maybe that 4-0 start the Atlanta Braves got off to in Sunday night's first inning thanks to Adam Duvall's grand slam was too perfect an ending to what's…
These Mocs keep pushing. They are resilient. They are making a name for themselves, and it has nothing to do with lighting up a scoreboard or creating plays to…
Who pulls a starting pitcher after five innings when he's throwing a no-hitter in the third game of the World Series?
It was supposed to be easy, this University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team's quest to not only reach the Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs,…
The oddsmakers say the Houston Astros will ultimately defeat the Atlanta Braves in the World Series that begins Tuesday inside the Astros' Minute Maid Park at …
A little more than nine minutes remained in Tennessee's eventual loss at No. 4 Alabama on Saturday night.
McCallie senior defensive lineman James Howard was injured for most of the Blue Tornado's run to a second straight TSSAA Division II-AAA state title last seaso…
Near the end of his turn at the podium during Tennessee's weekly press conference on Tuesday, UT running backs coach Jerry Mack was asked about the large numbe…
Dansby Swanson knows.
Back-to-back walk-off wins have the Atlanta Braves halfway from their first World Series appearance since 1999.
Who brings a golf ball to a college football game?
"This is what college football is all about." The words belonged to Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin in the final minutes before his Rebels would take the field at a…
It was Friday afternoon, Chattanooga Christian School's Division II-AA East Region football game against visiting Grace Christian Academy of Knoxville still fi…
The three University of Tennessee female athletes were discussing their weekend plans through the month of October as they exited the Brenda Lawson Athletic Ce…
Could a string of pearls lead to a string of Atlanta Braves postseason victories?
A prediction: By the 2024 season, Tennessee will reach the College Football Playoff. A second prediction: Josh Heupel, currently in his first season leading th…
University of Tennessee defensive lineman Matthew Butler has never been one to choose his words lightly.
My daughter Ella Beth calls them her "birthday team."