Wiedmer: Tim Tebow can talk the talk and walk the walk like few others
In a few minutes, Tim Tebow would take the stage at Redemption to the Nations Church on Bailey Avenue in Chattanooga and deliver an inspirational, spiritual message.

In a few minutes, Tim Tebow would take the stage at Redemption to the Nations Church on Bailey Avenue in Chattanooga and deliver an inspirational, spiritual message.

"You need to write a book."

At least once a week I get an email from some guy named Jimmy Shapiro about gambling odds on all matter of sporting events and subjects.

Fifty-two Veterans Days have come and gone since Harold Boozer left Dian, Vietnam, as a major in the First Infantry Division of the U.S. Army.

Just before Tennessee began its sixth game of an all-Southeastern Conference season, SEC Network analyst Gene Chizik said Saturday of the Volunteers' trip to Arkansas: "I think it's imperative they win tonight. Their schedule is brutal the rest of the way."

Because Hugh Enicks is a pretty good distance runner in his own right - five national age-group championships and counting - the recently retired Red Bank High ROTC instructor has spent more than a few hours on and around the school's track.

Girls Preparatory School athletic director Jay Watts was on his way home from Murfreesboro on Sunday evening following the previously undefeated Bruisers' crushing 3-2 loss to Father Ryan in the TSSAA Division II-AA girls state soccer final when he began to reflect on what he'd just witnessed.

It was early, early Saturday morning, his Grace Baptist Academy football team making its way back from its 34-30 road win at Franklin Grace, its final game of a 2-7 season, before Bob Ateca could finally reflect on all he and his family - both his own family and his family of players - had overcome the past eight months.

So let's get this straight: For telling the truth about one of the more atrocious calls Southeastern Conference football officials have made this season - and that's saying something - Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin is fined $25,000?

When what could have been one of the biggest victories in recent University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football history has just been stolen from you by inept officials, when your one-game season could have become the first undefeated season in school history, you'd expect the head coach to be besieged with phone calls from frustrated fans for days on end.
