Eric Parker chose to carve his own path.

There hasn't been a flattening of the curve when it comes to fighting the coronavirus among football players at the University of Tennessee.

Former Georgia offensive lineman Cade Mays is expected to make a smooth adjustment once he suits up for the Tennessee Volunteers.

To become employed by the Chattanooga News-Free Press, as I first did in 1983, was to learn quite quickly that your archrival, if not your archenemy, was the Chattanooga Times.

The University of Tennessee's athletic budget for the 2020-21 school year is based on the Volunteers having fans in the stands for the upcoming football season, but it still includes a $10.1 million cut in overall revenues.

The programs with the most national championships in major women's college basketball met regularly from 1995 to 2007, but Connecticut and Tennessee had not faced each other until this Revival Series was arranged before last season.

A friend phoned me with a novel idea on Monday, a suggestion that could surely take flight at 13 of the Southeastern Conference's 14 institutions of higher learning.

Late last week, Clemson announced 28 athletes and athletic staffers had tested positive for COVID-19. On Saturday, Kansas State said it was shutting down its voluntary workouts for athletes at team facilities after a spike of 14 positive cases.

Jill Levine took the call a few weeks ago, not quite believing what she was hearing.

Emboldened by the athletes it serves, the NCAA is taking another stand on a social issue.

Tennessee's rampant run in football recruiting earlier this spring has yielded its first defection.

The Tennessee Volunteers have their first positive test for COVID-19.

The NCAA has already said it would not schedule postseason events in Mississippi because of the state flag.

The Alabama-Tennessee football rivalry is as packed with tradition as it is colorful, but it has become incredibly one-sided as a result of the Crimson Tide winning all 13 meetings under current coach Nick Saban.

Tennessee athletic director Phillip Fulmer and head football coach Jeremy Pruitt continue to provide optimistic remarks regarding the Volunteers staging a 2020 season.

The bill would protect the NCAA from being challenged in court if the association changes its rules to allow athletes to earn money for endorsement deals and personal appearances.

The NCAA Division I Council has approved a plan to allow college basketball players to start working with their coaches for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out March Madness.

Christian Coleman, the reigning world champion in the 100-meter dash who is from Georgia and competed in college for the Tennessee Volunteers, has been sidelined, putting his fate for the Tokyo Olympics next summer in doubt.

Befitting someone who has always encouraged folks to live in their hopes instead of their fears, University of Tennessee athletic director Phillip Fulmer sounded like a man whose cup runneth over with hope for the upcoming college football season during an interview last week with the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

Tennessee picked up its 24th football commitment for the 2021 signing class Monday and its third from within the state, receiving a nonbinding pledge from Hardin County tight end Hudson Wolfe.

Nearly two decades have passed since Georgia's 26-24 defeat of Tennessee inside Neyland Stadium in 2001, which forever will be known as the "Hobnail Boot" game thanks to legendary Bulldogs announcer Larry Munson.

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace wore a protective face mask with an American flag on it, his hand over his heart as he stood for the national anthem. This time, fans joined him.

When protests late last month in Atlanta over the senseless killing of George Floyd quickly gave way to downtown rioting, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms delivered a passionate plea to those present to end the chaos by going home.