What a game. Seriously, God bless the ''er'' months.

Within the past couple of years, LSU won college football's 2019 national championship, Florida won the Southeastern Conference's 2020 Eastern Division title and Texas A&M finished last season ranked No. 4 nationally.

Well, I am not sure how we got here so fast, but here we are again in early fall. For all of our deer hunters, this means the yearly obsession with the rut.

The price tags for elite starting pitchers in the baseball world are astronomical.

University of Tennessee defensive lineman Matthew Butler has never been one to choose his words lightly.

So, the GOATs played. It came and went and you know who the big winner was?

My daughter Ella Beth calls them her "birthday team."

Josh Heupel. Yeah, it was not as big as Brady's return to Foxboro, but Heupel returning to Columbia had to have some emotion.

Perhaps this is just where we are for a while in Southeastern Conference football.

First-year Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel looks more and more like the nation's best hire in college football from this past offseason.

You can be a nice guy and a terrible coach and you'll get a little extra time because people like you. You can be an absolute jerk and a mediocre coach and eventually your personality will get you got, too.

In what has already been a wild ride of a prep football season for the Chattanooga area, we're now beginning the stretch run toward the playoffs, a time when the intensity ratchets up enough to make the improbable possible.

Hey, let's play a little Braves B-I-N-G-O, who's with me?

What if Kirby Smart lost to a former assistant before Nick Saban?

For most dedicated bear hunters, it's all about the dog and the chase.

The Braves closer again wiggled from a self-inflicted storm as the Braves grabbed a much-needed and impossible-to-overstate victory in Game 1 of the critical three-game series with the second-place Phillies.

In a few seconds, Tennessee junior running back Tiyon Evans' Tuesday morning session with the media would be over. But first, someone asked him if he'd watched any film of Missouri, which the Vols will visit Saturday at high noon.

So the University of Tennessee canceled a game with Army next year and rescheduled it with Akron, the biggest patsy not named UConn in the FBS.

Ah, another Auburn football game. Another undeserved gift from a Southeastern Conference officiating crew. Don't tell me that Alabama is always the league's favorite team.

The U.S. smoked the Europeans in the Ryder Cup.

Tennessee football in Josh Heupel's first season will not be a repeat of Tennessee football in Jeremy Pruitt's third season. So sayeth Volunteers senior cornerback Alontae Taylor.

To watch Tennessee in the Swamp for so much of Saturday night's game against the Florida Gators was to imagine that this so-called rebuilding job may take a whole lot less time than originally predicted for Volunteers first-year coach Josh Heupel.

Here's your Friday mailbag ahead of the weekend.