The beauty and beast of the Southern Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments has always been that only the winner is assured of a bid to the NCAA Tournament.

In a sports culture that has never been more divisive, I offer that there is one uniform view that can bring us all together.

Let's take the high road here.

Super-speedway racing 101: Stay close until the end because anything can happen. Anything.

Lorraine Potter was the most loyal and passionate coach's wife and mother imaginable, and McCallie football players were among those who benefited from such devotion.

Meigs County senior offensive lineman Malachi Hayden thought he was doing all the right things last summer and fall to land a college scholarship from a Football Championship Subdivision program.

It feels really swell to have a discussion about the anthem and it not include protests, kneeling, stopping the tradition or forcing people to adhere to it, don't you think?

So Mark Cuban's ant-anthem stance lasted one day in the light.

In the outdoors and hunting world, maybe no animal draws as much controversy as the coyote.

The NCAA lost $600 million by not having a 2020 men's basketball tournament. Another hit like that would kill various programs across the country, and not just small schools.

My esteemed colleague Jay Greeson first broached the idea in his Tuesday morning "Five at 10" internet column for this paper.

Before we get to the contest results, let's review some of the story lines of the last 36 hours after the big game, shall we? I think we shall.

Will the real University of Tennessee men's basketball team please stand up?

Apparently Brady hates the sound of the 'GOAT' tag for some reason, but simply put, is there any other way to describe him at this point.

If one message can sum up the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV on Sunday night, it might be this: You're not getting older, you're getting better.

Eugene Robinson. Those were the first two words that popped into my head.

I am riding with the Bucs primarily because that was my pick before the season. Why change now?

I first realized the popularity of "Mark Trail," the outdoors comic strip, a little more than a decade ago.

So signing day came and went. Here are the headlines: Alabama dominated.

So yeah, about trying to pretend we know anything about any of these SEC basketball broods is an exercise in futility.

Like father like son.

The NCAA lost $600 million by not having a tournament last spring. Another empty March and there will be nuclear winter for who knows how many programs at dozens of universities across the country.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball coach Katie Burrows doesn't normally embrace a warm and fuzzy coaching style. Much as she was during her days as an outstanding Mocs player, Burrows is typically filled with fire and feistiness, hard to please and never satisfied.