The Atlanta Braves' summer surge is bringing them All-Star recognition and closer and closer to the New York Mets, who are about to visit Truist Park in a big series for the NL East rivals and the fight for first place in the division.
With deepest apologies to the 16th century rapper Billy Shake, it seems as if our fair city has been overcome by the following choice: "To build, or not to build (a new minor league baseball stadium), that is the question."
By the time you read this, the Atlanta Braves will be one game past the midway point of the 2022 season, having either won or lost Tuesday night's game against the St. Louis Cardinals inside the Braves' Truist Park.
The SEC Network's resident genius and truth teller Paul Finebaum first suggested the doomsday scenario for college football as we've long known and loved it late last week, just after news broke of Southern Cal's and UCLA's intentions to bolt the Pac-12 for the Big Ten.
Independence Day. July 4th. We think they're one and the same. One of the greatest, if not the greatest sportscaster of all time, Vin Scully, begs to differ, however.
Is all this money worth it? Are parents really going to be rewarded with four-year athletic scholarships that make yearly five-figure financial outlays pay off by the time college rolls around?
When he was first named the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's athletic director in the late summer of 2017, it didn't take Mark Wharton long to pinpoint what his department most needed if it intended to compete for Southern Conference sports championships.
Almost everywhere you look, you see a deeply divided America these days.
The juggernaut that was the University of Tennessee baseball team for so much of these past four months had to be shaking its collective head in anger and frustration Sunday evening.
Regrets. We all have them.
