Wiedmer: Could Kyle Muller be answer Braves need to replace Mike Soroka?
It just could be the confidence boost the Atlanta Braves need to start a prolonged winning streak.

It just could be the confidence boost the Atlanta Braves need to start a prolonged winning streak.

Personal freedom. We all want that, right?

The NBA's Eastern Conference finals. Also known as the place dreams go to die if you're the Atlanta Hawks - or at least the version of the Hawks that moved from St. Louis to the Big Peach in 1968.

If the National Collegiate Athletic Association was a basketball team, it would be the Washington Generals, the perennial doormat of the Harlem Globetrotters.

If you're a University of Tennessee baseball fan, it might have been difficult to have a much worse start to the College World Series than what the Big Orange Nation experienced this weekend.

It was late Thursday morning, another workout just completed by Marilyn Beckner, Patsy Duncan and Jack Painter in advance of the Tennessee Senior Olympics pickleball competition slated for Aug. 7-9 at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

If anyone has some idea of what the University of Tennessee baseball team is about to experience when it reaches Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series, it's former Ooltewah softball star Kayla Boseman.

Memo to University of Tennessee athletic director Danny White: Better get that Brinks truck ready if you expect to keep baseball coach Tony Vitello around for long.

For years and years, tennis geeks the world over, me included, have probably wiped out a rainforest or three debating whether Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) in the men's game.

At 3:40 in the morning on the 18th of May, Dean Jarvis slid his 52-year-old body into the Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center swimming pool in Knoxville and began to dog paddle for what would become an 18-hour workout covering 16 miles.
