Back in the early 1970s, when Tom Losh was a young University of Tennessee at Chattanooga assistant basketball coach from Mason, Ohio, and Herbert "Book" McCray was a slightly younger Mocs player from Louisville, Ky., Losh would sometimes give McCray a ride to or from the Derby City as he drove to or from Ohio.
With the 19th Porky's Open set to begin at Council Fire on Tuesday afternoon, Frank Kinser, the event's founder, looked around at the 136 golfers about to tee off and thought back to the first one.
It just didn't feel quite right Monday night, the start of this Boston-Philadelphia NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series, though especially since the Celtics' 117-101 win was hardly indicative of so many of the previous 100 playoff games between these two franchises.
The line wrapping its way through the aisles of the Academy Sports and Outdoors store at Hamilton Place had been forming for more than an hour when the Tennessee Titans Caravan bus arrived late Sunday afternoon.
It's probably asking too much. Much too much.
It's a start.
As Butch Jones prepared for his second season as football coach at the University of Tennessee in spring 2014, he chose Justin Worley to be his starting quarterback. Worley's backups were redshirt sophomore Nathan Peterman, sophomore Josh Dobbs and redshirt freshman Riley Ferguson.
A 40-year-old basketball player isn't supposed to lead his team to a playoff win over the defending world champions, even if it still leaves that team down 3-1 in the best-of-seven series.
No college football coach in the history of the sport may be tougher to satisfy than Alabama's Nick Saban.
Tyler Holt and his wife, Haley, drove more than 270 miles from Waynesboro, Tenn., to watch Saturday's Orange and White Game.
