Wiedmer: Hamilton County high school athletes are safer with Erlanger trainers on the team
It's not a stretch to say Erlanger's involvement with high school sports teams in Hamilton County has saved lives.
Wiedmer: Mike Soroka injury is last thing Braves needed in short season
"Oh, no." Television announcer Chip Caray uttered those words twice Monday evening as he watched replays of Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Soroka falling to the Truist Park grass in extreme pain.
Wiedmer: Ramon Vila’s exit from UTC is why NCAA should temporarily alter transfer rules
In normal times, few coaches have been more opposed to the NCAA giving immediate eligibility to nongraduate transfers than University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's basketball boss Lamont Paris.
Wiedmer: Could Pac-12 football players’ demands further jeopardize already shaky season?
I'm usually not too moved by Power Five conference athletes in football and men's basketball whining about their treatment at Big State U.
Wiedmer: Could reasons to play football this fall just kind of not be good enough?
Is any of this smart, or at least less than unfathomably stupid? We'll see.
Wiedmer: New GPS volleyball coach Bailey Winel deserves ‘foot-five’ for Wounded Warrior work
When Girls Preparatory School athletic director Jay Watts went looking for a new volleyball coach for the Bruisers, he didn't have to search far. Bailey Winel was already on the private school's payroll working with the track and field team's shot and discus athletes.
Wiedmer: Will Marlins and Clippers’ Lou Williams be warnings to save pro sports seasons?
What was Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams thinking?
Wiedmer: Return of Braves aside, does anyone really think we have COVID-19 where we want it?
If you closed your eyes, it sounded like real baseball this weekend. You heard crowd noises. You heard organ music. The announcers sounded as if they were in the stadium.
Wiedmer: Black lives have always mattered to former Bradley Central star Mike Fitzgerald
The first day of school in 1965 was not going as planned for Levi and Terry Scott. Attending previously all-white Bradley Central High School for the first time, the Scott brothers, who are Black, were experiencing more than a wee bit of racial tension.
Wiedmer: Are we as divided about the return of sports as we are about everything else?
If you don't think this great country of ours is deeply divided on almost every single issue these days, check out the results from Monday's Chattanooga Times Free Press reader poll.
