Covering University of Tennessee athletics for the Times Free Press really is a great job, largely because the Times Free Press is still a great newspaper. But one of the challenges of the newspaper model for a long-winded sports writer is that sometimes there are space limitations in the print product.
Yes, we still have a daily print product! It’s a really good one, too.
So when my boss, Stephen Hargis, texted me the night after I wrote an 800-word article on a Lady Vols basketball game and told me to keep it shorter next time, I shot back.
“What if I started a morning blog for all the extra brilliance floating around in my head after my space limit is reached?” I asked.
He said it was a good idea, and he hasn’t changed his mind yet. Now, here we are a few days later. The goal in this blog will be to take you behind the curtain a bit with a conversational style.