Wiedmer: Final Four should produce its own Godzilla-Kong matchup on Monday night
Almost there.
Wiedmer: Saying goodbye to old friends is never easy
For nearly 11 years, he was my best friend.
Wiedmer: UTC spring football becoming more pain than gain
The email from a disappointed and disgruntled UTC football fan reached my inbox at 7:47 Sunday morning.
Wiedmer: Lee pitcher Andy Rivera in seventh heaven after six years of bad luck
Bad luck. When you're Lee University seventh-year senior Andy Rivera, having your injury-riddled baseball career chalked up to bad luck would be an upgrade.
Wiedmer: Wes Moore’s NCAA tourney stay will last at least one game longer than Kellie Jolly Harper’s
Back in the salad days of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball, current North Carolina State coach Wes Moore and current Tennessee Lady Vols coach Kellie Jolly Harper were on the same side, Harper assisting Moore's Mocs from the fall of 2001 through the spring of 2004.
Wiedmer: With UTC fans in the stands, Finley Stadium is the place to be this weekend
As he looked ahead to this Saturday's University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football game against Southern Conference foe Mercer at Finley Stadium following last weekend's 20-18 win at Furman, longtime "Voice of the Mocs" Jim Reynolds made the following observation:
Wiedmer: March Madness bringing more than a little gladness to the underdogs
Maybe Sister Jean got this career thing all wrong. Maybe instead of being a nun, the 101-year-old chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team should have been a coach.
Wiedmer: Having March Madness back may be perfect, but brackets won’t be
For all of you still moping around over Tennessee's stumble in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, at least the Big Orange busted a lot of brackets early.
Wiedmer: Tuesday brought needed good news throughout the sports world
If you're like me, you may have often begun to feel as if you're NBA superstar Chris Paul in those television commercials with Jake of State Farm. Something's always about to go wrong. Disappointment is always just around the corner. Our lives are now always half-empty, if not three-quarters so.
Wiedmer: Does TSSAA have a heart? South Pittsburg athlete is about to find out
Sometime this afternoon, the 12-member Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Board of Control will gather at Murfreesboro's Siegel High School to hear an eligibility appeal from a South Pittsburg High School student who the TSSAA banned a week ago from all athletic competition at the school for a full year for what was termed an "improper benefit."
