The Big Ten announcement was striking and the more I think about it, the decision must be viewed through a multiple array of prisms that offer varying perspectives.

But you have to think that as the clock continues to tick, by this time next week, you have to believe that a plan needs to be in place, right?

There was a time when this iconic little varmint got a lot of attention from hunters during the game calendar's offseason, and especially from the group that became known as varmint hunters.

The "Yeah, what about" defense of shortcomings big or small can be a scary carousel.

Tuesday morning found Chattanooga Lookouts president Rich Mozingo in his AT&T Field office, despite his having been furloughed after last week's official cancellation of the team's Southern League season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It's an amazing scenario when pledging to give an athlete $500 million is every bit as good a deal for the team as it is for the player.

It's every middle-aged couch potato's dream come true: Be richly rewarded for gaining 40 pounds while eating anything you want.

Are the Washington Whomevers winners or losers of the weekend?

Befitting someone with 227 home runs and a .293 batting average for his career, Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman has been sending chills through major league pitching staffs for close to a decade.

There the Brothers Blaylock sat, all three of them perched near the top of the stairwell in their divorced mother Janelle's suburban Atlanta home. It provided them the perfect view to glimpse the new man in her life before the two adults headed out for a date night.

First, I realize this is a statement and not a question. I also reluctantly shared it because it's somewhat self-promoting.

We're way behind, but great comebacks are borne in moments surrounded by great obstacles.

Yes, it's July 1, which means it's Bobby Bonilla Day.

Maybe we've been going about the coronavirus pandemic thing all wrong. Maybe we should have started out with no expectations. Just operate on the assumption we're basically quarantined until further notice. Period.

There are a lot of heavy issues around us, even in sports conversations.

For as long as I've been an adult, for more than 40 years now, it seems that somebody or some group has been threatening the state of Mississippi with one thing or another if it didn't remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag.

Is there a better place for a 31-year-old former MVP to springboard toward a Ryan Tannehill-like career rebound than New England? I don't think so.

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.

Somebody in government should hire him to become Czar of the COVID-19 Mask.

Here are some thoughts on the baseball world and today's changing culture for your weekend.

Baseball is back. Now what?

I wrote about the strides NASCAR has taken — strides that are proper and more brave in terms of any league's fan backlash than any other — for A2 today.

Until the coronavirus pandemic ended competitive sports more than three months ago, June 24 was to be the day Baylor School rising senior Ellie Waldrep fulfilled a lifelong dream — competing in the United States Olympic Team Trials for swimming.