When you're sitting in a nearly empty Neyland Stadium watching a 173-minute University of Tennessee spring football practice, you have a lot of time to consider the upcoming Vols season.

OK, the Braves have experienced a strange V diagram of franchise fortune during their time in the A-T-L.

What's Major League Baseball got against the Big Peach these days?

I thought it was typical TV bluster, a hot-take on the hot topic over the weekend.

Imagine carrying the sports hopes of your entire country on your shoulders.

There are your garden variety, blood-runs-orange University of Tennessee football fanatics. Then there's Angie Miller of Sevierville.

From the satellite studios of the Georgia coast, let's make the magic happen.

So, as to be expected there are a bunch of the record-setting 82 entries with DJ and Bryson on the list.

Who isn't ready for spring after the long, hard winter we just had?

There's a real chance that for the first time since early 2020, this weekend — even with limited patrons on the grounds — this will feel like the most normal event of the past 13-plus months.

My friend is taking a couple of vacation days this week.

OK, first, it's time to change the "One Shining Moment" song at the end of the NCAA tournament, right?

Monday night brought a conclusion to the most important annual financial event the NCAA stages — its Division I men's basketball tournament.

So, the MLB is pulling the All-Star game from Georgia because of the recent voting laws. Wow.

The 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament probably should have ended Saturday night about the time Gonzaga's ridiculously talented Jalen Suggs tossed in a banked 40-footer to knock off UCLA 93-90 in overtime.

Scott Farley didn't think much about the long view of what was happening to him in the final minutes of Easter 2020.

This may be the part of the show — and yes, this mailbag has grown quite heavy, like my weight and my mullet in the pandemic — where I get a little sentimental.

Almost there.

This may be the most excited I have been for MLB to start in a long time. A long time.

We know the team is legit and the top four in the order are as good as any 1-thru-4 in the game.

How many Saban warriors will hear their names called? LSU had a record-tying 14 players drafted last year. Alabama could cruise by that for a couple of reasons.

For nearly 11 years, he was my best friend.

If you are going to put your second-best product on the field, why are you charging first-rate ticket prices?