Wiedmer: UT’s Jeremy Pruitt becoming the kind of leader who wins championships
They're back.
Wiedmer: Baseball continues to be its own worst enemy
When it comes to this ongoing battle between Major League Baseball's greedy owners and greedy players, three words are beginning to come to mind more and more: Enough. Of. This.
Wiedmer: SEC coaches joining in protests a good thing
There stood Jeremy Pruitt, wearing a CDC-recommended mask and a University of Tennessee football shirt as he delivered the kind of message head coaches of major college programs rarely deliver.
Wiedmer: Former Baylor softball star Crosby Huckabay grateful for second senior season at Georgia Tech
Senior day. Wherever it happens, that last home game is quite often the emotional highlight of any student-athlete's college career.
Wiedmer: Johnny Majors was about so much more than football
In the long, largely proud history of University of Tennessee football, there never has been a fairy tale quite like that of John Terrill Majors - right up to the time it ended in a nightmare of a firing for all concerned when he was canned as UT's coach late in the 1992 season.
Wiedmer: Could circuit court ruling place Duke hoops in NCAA crosshairs?
For now, it's one Florida state court judge's ruling. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Wiedmer: They don’t make them like Pat Dye anymore
A couple of years before Mack McCarthy became the head men's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga late in the summer of 1985, he was Sonny Smith's top assistant at Auburn.
Wiedmer: We’ve seen this kind of unrest too many times before
Jaylen Brown has never been your typical elite athlete. Wooed by every college basketball factory in the country coming out of Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, Brown spent his one year of college at California-Berkeley because he felt a special bond with former Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin.
Wiedmer: College athletes far from the only ones in need of financial literacy
You can certainly argue whether Reggie Bush was the right person to talk about the dangers of paying college athletes for their names, images and likenesses during an interview he recently did with Playboy.
Wiedmer: COVID-19 no match for SEC football
Of course, these workouts are being trumpeted as "voluntary," which is probably code for "No one can force you to come, but if you expect to letter this fall, you'll be here on June 8."
