The NCAA will permit Division I spring sports athletes - such as baseball, softball and lacrosse players - who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus pandemic to have an additional year of eligibility.

Five-time NFL MVP and former University of Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning dropped in on one of his alma mater's online classes Thursday to boost the spirits of students having to finish their coursework virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In a perfect world, a world not completely under siege from COVID-19, the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament's Sweet 16 round would begin Thursday night.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's basketball coach Lamont Paris has a competitive itch he can't scratch right now, and it has nothing to do with the cancellations of the NCAA tournament, the NIT, the CBI and the CIT.

Rhyne Howard, a former high school star for Bradley's Bearettes, is the University of Kentucky's first women's basketball player to be selected to the AP All-America first team.

There are several Southeastern Conference football programs that can reflect on recent months as reasons for optimism ahead.

Alabama was scheduled to start spring football practice Friday afternoon, unleashing a quarterback competition featuring Mac Jones, Taulia Tagovailoa and five-star early enrollee Bryce Young.

Like fellow Tennessee senior Lamonte Turner before him, Jordan Bowden's time on the basketball court as a Volunteer came to an unceremonious end before it should have.

This newspaper's Gene Henley and I had just gotten on the shuttle bus that would take us from Nissan Stadium to Bridgestone Arena on Thursday morning when the "breaking news" headlines flashed across various social media outlets.

After canceling the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament Thursday morning, league commissioner Greg Sankey held a news conference Thursday afternoon inside Nashville's Bridgestone Arena and firmly announced the cancellations of the upcoming SEC gymnastics and equestrian championships.

The only people hanging around Bridgestone Arena early Thursday afternoon were the throngs of media that had arrived at the site of the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament.

If nothing else, John Fulkerson is making believers of a number of people this basketball season.

When the SEC opened league play in men's basketball on January's first Saturday, nobody got off to a more impressive start than Alabama.

College football coaches love to coach. Especially when they've been cooped up all winter watching it rain and snow as the wind blows cold.

Jeremy Pruitt and the Tennessee coaching staff spent a good portion of the 2019 season hiding its quarterback.

Texas A&M and Vanderbilt were picked to finish 12th and 14th in the 2020 Southeastern Conference men's basketball race.

The listless performance in Saturday's regular-season finale against Auburn puzzled Tennessee men's basketball coach Rick Barnes

Not that Bruce Pearl necessarily has it in for his former employer. And he certainly shouldn't, because Pearl isn't coaching basketball at Auburn these days only because the University of Tennessee didn't want him anymore.

Lamonte Turner had a vision for what his final home game as a college basketball player would be like.

Is Tennessee going to be left out of the NCAA women's basketball tournament for the first time?

What if?

Kentucky sophomore Rhyne Howard hit five 3-pointers to break the program's single-season record behind the arc.

Entering this season, senior guards Jordan Bowden and Lamonte Turner were expected to lead what was supposed to be a mostly young Tennessee men's basketball team with hopes of maintaining the program's high level of play in recent years.