Wiedmer: Freddie Freeman’s recovery gives sports world hope in pandemic
All of us who love and miss organized sports, both professional and college, have needed a reason for realistic hope of their return amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Wiedmer: Mocs look to upcoming Porky’s Open to help make tough year better
Mark Wharton may or may not be able to keep UTC's fall 2020 sports calendar.
Wiedmer: Commissioner’s words send sobering shock wave through SEC country
A dozen words. That's all it took for Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey to send a sobering shock wave of reality to the fan bases, administrators, coaches and athletes of the country's most powerful and passionate athletics conference.
Wiedmer: To play or not to play through a pandemic is stressing out those who want to play
Rusty Wright doesn't need a University of Wisconsin study to tell him his University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team is feeling anxious and frustrated over whether or not the coronavirus pandemic will keep the Mocs from playing football this fall.
Wiedmer: Did you ever think disc golf could temporarily replace baseball?
Tuesday morning found Chattanooga Lookouts president Rich Mozingo in his AT&T Field office, despite his having been furloughed after last week's official cancellation of the team's Southern League season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wiedmer: Bryson DeChambeau beginning to look like golf’s next really big thing
It's every middle-aged couch potato's dream come true: Be richly rewarded for gaining 40 pounds while eating anything you want.
Wiedmer: Could Freddie Freeman shut down sports’ return as swiftly as Rudy Gobert first stopped them?
Befitting someone with 227 home runs and a .293 batting average for his career, Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman has been sending chills through major league pitching staffs for close to a decade.
Wiedmer: When it comes to racial equality, John Woods a man of action rather than words
There the Brothers Blaylock sat, all three of them perched near the top of the stairwell in their divorced mother Janelle's suburban Atlanta home. It provided them the perfect view to glimpse the new man in her life before the two adults headed out for a date night.
Wiedmer: To play or not to play beginning to lean toward not
Maybe we've been going about the coronavirus pandemic thing all wrong. Maybe we should have started out with no expectations. Just operate on the assumption we're basically quarantined until further notice. Period.
Wiedmer: Having power and using it wisely are two very different things
For as long as I've been an adult, for more than 40 years now, it seems that somebody or some group has been threatening the state of Mississippi with one thing or another if it didn't remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag.
