The UTC football team is in Charleston, South Carolina, this weekend, looking to improve to 2-0 in Southern Conference play.

There have been multiple instances recently in which SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has rightfully boasted about his conference staging 69 out of a possible 71 football games this past season.

UTC senior guard David Jean-Baptiste sat down for a conversation with the Chattanooga Times Free Press in advance of the Mocs' trip to the SoCon tournament this weekend.

Rennia Davis tied her career high with 33 points and she also grabbed 14 rebounds as 14th-ranked and third-seeded Tennessee held on to beat 11th-seeded Ole Miss on Friday night.

The recommendation by Joe Alleva, athletic director for the Tigers at the time, to F. King Alexander, who was then LSU's president, is detailed in a report made public Friday by the Husch Blackwell law firm.

OK, before we get to your questions and emails — sharing some of the feedback I get in a normal week, some with comments, some without, because you guys and gals are interesting folks — let's do our checklist.

Surprising? Not really. Disappointing? No doubt.

The addition of Mike Ekeler as an assistant at Tennessee completes Josh Heupel's inaugural 10-member staff with the Volunteers.

For John Fulkerson, playing basketball at the University of Tennessee while growing up 90 minutes away in Kingsport was a constant dream. The same couldn't be said for Yves Pons, who hails from Fuveau, France, and will never forget his college arrival.

Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney is happy to have Tony Elliott back coordinating an offense that must replace its two marquee players of the past few seasons.

Two seasons that had a hard time getting off the ground have almost made it to the finish line.

UTC women's basketball Katie Burrows Burrows sat down this week for an interview with the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Georgia sixth-year football coach Kirby Smart described a recent scene with his players that is likely transpiring all over the country.

The most recent NFL event not impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic was the 2020 combine. A year later, with the 2021 combine canceled, the league has released a list of players who would have merited invitations to Indianapolis.

Tennessee announced Wednesday afternoon that the first Orange & White spring game under new football coach Josh Heupel will take place Saturday, April 24, inside Neyland Stadium.

Crown her.

Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes didn't give up on John Fulkerson in February.

When it comes to Southeastern Conference football assistants, nobody may have been dealt a better hand in 2021 than Georgia fourth-year receivers coach Cortez Hankton.

When news broke of the release of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga offensive line coach Chris Malone in early January due to a controversial tweet, there was a lot of speculation about how quickly head coach Rusty Wright would move to find a replacement.

Tennessee has targeted North Texas special teams coordinator Mike Ekeler for the same role with the Volunteers.

Should new Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel ever need to bounce an idea or question off somebody else with head-coaching experience, he just needs to head to the running backs room.

When UTC played its lone football game of 2020 at Western Kentucky in October, quarterback Drayton Arnold looked like he hadn't started a game in five years of college.

If the Tennessee Volunteers are to right the wrongs of their 2020-21 basketball season, they will have to do so in practice.