Wiedmer: Sadly, Roger Federer finally is acting his age
This was supposed to be the night everyone who cares about professional men's tennis couldn't wait to arrive.

This was supposed to be the night everyone who cares about professional men's tennis couldn't wait to arrive.

Until Jeremy Pruitt lost his first game as Tennessee's football coach this past Saturday against No. 17 West Virginia, the last Volunteers coach to lose his debut game running the Big Orange was Johnny Majors in 1977.

Most of us think we'd like to have ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit's life this time of year.
Tennessee fans learned something about what a Jeremy Pruitt-coached team will be like.

The Spears Stadium scoreboard showing Montgomery Bell Academy 34, McCallie 14, Blue Tornado football coach Ralph Potter could only shake his head and mutter, "I don't think I've ever had a team commit seven turnovers in one game."
It's doubtful the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team is going to vault into any top 25 poll based on Thursday night's victory - the score was 34-10 before a long rain delay at the 10:25 mark of the fourth period - over visiting Tennessee Tech at Finley Stadium.

For the first time all summer, Bingo Morton found sleep hard to come by Monday night.

Perhaps no current University of Tennessee football player has experienced the good, the bad and the ugly of the past three Big Orange seasons more than senior defensive lineman Shy Tuttle.

Surely your first thoughts were the same as mine: Not again. Oh, please, not again.

Sometime around 7 this morning, Soddy-Daisy resident Mike Stephens will enter the gates of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, and begin stringing rackets for numerous pros in advance of the start of the U.S. Open on Monday.
