Wiedmer: Vols appear to be SEC basketball’s best
How highly regarded is this year's University of Tennessee men's basketball team?

How highly regarded is this year's University of Tennessee men's basketball team?

Progress. Isn't that all any reasonable University of Tennessee football fan hoped to see when the Volunteers hosted No. 6 Florida on Saturday afternoon inside Neyland Stadium?

On Thursday night, Eric Rivers celebrated McCallie's second straight football state championship. It was only last season he had to earn his way back onto the team after a serious disagreement with coach Ralph Potter over his splitting time between AAU basketball and Blue Tornado football.

It's Moon Pies versus Gibson's doughnuts on the line as McCallie takes on Memphis University School for the TSSAA Division II-AAA football state title.

Assuming nothing has changed between the time I wrote this column late Monday afternoon and whenever you read it - and assuming anything in these coronavirus times is risky business - No. 7 Kansas and No. 20 Kentucky will face off at 9:30 Tuesday night on ESPN in the State Farm Champions Classic.

Making history doesn't always mean walking on the moon, going fast enough to break the sound barrier or becoming the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

How badly does junior quarterback Logan Carroll want to help his Meigs County teammates stay alive in the TSSAA Class 2A state playoffs by doing all he can to avoid the coronavirus?

At some point during his Monday afternoon press conference, Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt made the following observation regarding his team's 30-17 loss at Auburn last Saturday night: "We played much better in this game than we did against Missouri."

At 11:15 Tuesday morning, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball coach Lamont Paris was discussing what it felt like to have the first game of the somewhat delayed 2020-21 season scheduled to tip off one week from today at 2 p.m. against Bellarmine inside McKenzie Arena.

Joe Biddle was in no mood to mince words.
