Memo to University of Tennessee athletic director Danny White: Better get that Brinks truck ready if you expect to keep baseball coach Tony Vitello around for long.

In K-town, the Vols dodged the drops and survived a critical Game 1 and dominated LSU in Game 2 to punch its ticket to the College World Series. This will be fun.

For years and years, tennis geeks the world over, me included, have probably wiped out a rainforest or three debating whether Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) in the men's game.

At 3:40 in the morning on the 18th of May, Dean Jarvis slid his 52-year-old body into the Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center swimming pool in Knoxville and began to dog paddle for what would become an 18-hour workout covering 16 miles.

A quick mailbag for your busy Friday.

Apparently, we didn't know Bo. Any of us.

OK, sports fans, just thought I would let you in on some inside information: Summer, the season that is the favorite for many of you, is almost here. As for my little neck of the woods in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains, we have had summer-like weather for about a week now.

It has always been when and never if. That's the word that has always started the questions about expanding the college football playoff field from its current field of four teams.

After 22 football seasons at Tennessee that contained 274 games, Tim Priest will no longer provide color commentary for the Vol Radio Network.

Baseball has forever been a game for cheaters. Right or wrong, stealing signs, corking bats, PEDs, you name it, if baseball players can get away with skirting the rules, then bully for you.

It had been a pretty good day for Dan Pride and the Godolphin breeding operation he oversees in Lexington, Kentucky, long before Essential Quality broke from the No. 2 starting gate in the 153d running of the Belmont Stakes this past Saturday.

What a show the young Atlanta point guard put on in Philly on Sunday as the Hawks grabbed Game 1 and seized home-court advantage from the East's No.

Talk about picking your poison if you're in an opposing secondary.

The weightlifting medals are stuffed inside a size 9 shoe box beneath Olivia Reeves' bed.

I did think there could be a viable spring football market, especially for the original XFL, which appeared well-heeled and well-organized. But they were not well-heeled enough and they went belly up.

Coach K was a lot of things, and a lot of people will debate the angles and interpretations of those things.

Most of us would agree there is a lot of difference between a grizzly bear and a chicken hawk.

So, Kirby Smart is recruiting at such a level, he's adding five stars on June 1.

First came the news that Naomi Osaka was withdrawing from the French Open because she's unwilling to talk to the media.

We had a revelation this morning. We can add to the list.

Seven months ago, Jennifer Huwe gave birth to daughter Ellis, her and husband Kevin's first child.

Because of the ultimate sacrifices of so many — and not just those who gave their lives, but those who were forced to go on when loved ones gave their lives — we get to live in the greatest country in the world.

It's not over. The Atlanta Hawks still have to win one more game to knock off the New York Knicks and advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs.