Wiedmer: Buck Johnson was the best of the best
To become employed by the Chattanooga News-Free Press, as I first did in 1983, was to learn quite quickly that your archrival, if not your archenemy, was the Chattanooga Times.
Wiedmer: Follow Rick Honeycutt’s advice, and MLB season might yet be saved
Somebody in government should hire him to become Czar of the COVID-19 Mask.
Wiedmer: If COVID-19 would disappear, the world could see the strength of Chattanooga swimming
Until the coronavirus pandemic ended competitive sports more than three months ago, June 24 was to be the day Baylor School rising senior Ellie Waldrep fulfilled a lifelong dream - competing in the United States Olympic Team Trials for swimming.
Wiedmer: A fall without football no longer feels so far-fetched
A friend phoned me with a novel idea on Monday, a suggestion that could surely take flight at 13 of the Southeastern Conference's 14 institutions of higher learning.
Wiedmer: Now more than ever, we could use more Grady Jacoways in the world
One night in 1981, brothers Grady and Steve Jacoway, both of them McCallie School graduates who were University of Tennessee students at the time, fell into a heated discussion at a Knoxville watering hole.
Wiedmer: What would our town do without Peyton Manning?
Jill Levine took the call a few weeks ago, not quite believing what she was hearing.
Wiedmer: Could Major League Baseball sweep itself to the curb?
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred must, at least this once, focus on the fans and what they've been through and are continuing to go through.
Wiedmer: Fulmer’s right to hope, but a full Neyland Stadium seems a reach
Befitting someone who has always encouraged folks to live in their hopes instead of their fears, University of Tennessee athletic director Phillip Fulmer sounded like a man whose cup runneth over with hope for the upcoming college football season during an interview last week with the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
Wiedmer: No pro sports organization has outshined NASCAR during coronavirus pandemic
Full disclosure: I've never been much of a NASCAR fan.
Wiedmer: No matter our skin color, we’ve all got the same red blood
From George Floyd's horrible death, something has come to life in this country that we've never previously witnessed on such a grand scale regarding the desperate need to end systemic racism.
