Between dodging toad-strangling thunderstorms and a barrage of road construction zones, this year's Prep Tour — the 25th edition — proved to be more of a challenge than usual.
Boyd Buchanan head football coach Gary Rankin is expected to miss several weeks after undergoing emergency surgery recently.
It is one of the longest work days of the year but it also results in the story that typically creates the most reader response. Maybe that speaks to the popularity of high school football in our area, but it has certainly become something much more than expected.
Despite what the thermometer might say, beginning this week, summer is officially over.
The procedure now demands instant reaction — hot takes — to whatever we just witnessed on the sports stage. But if age has taught me anything, sometimes allowing enough time to pass to digest it all and let a wider overview dictate our perspective is better than a reflex tweet.
They came from different backgrounds and took a variety of routes and modes of transportation to arrive in Omaha, but the common thread that bound so many Chattanooga-area folks together this past weekend was a love of baseball, family and their University of Tennessee sports fandom.
The long national nightmare is over for Volnation.
Any one of the three men sitting at the podium representing the University of Tennessee baseball team could have answered the question.
As ugly as Saturday night’s College World Series finals opener was for Tennessee, there is one very important factor to keep in mind.
For the better part of the past week, they have sat shoulder to shoulder, squinting into the bright Cornhusker State sunshine from their seats along the third-base line and taking in countless fly balls and fried food.
