Jay was named the Sports Editor of the Times Free Press in 2003 and started with the newspaper in May 2002 as the Deputy Sports Editor. He was born and raised in Smyrna, Ga., and graduated from Auburn University before starting his newspaper career in 1997 with the Newnan (Ga.) Times Herald. Stops in Clayton and Henry counties in Georgia and two years as the Sports Editor of the Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal preceded Jay's move to Chattanooga. He has won local, state, regional and national awards as a writer, designer and section editor and was part of a TFP team that won a 2011 APSE award. Jay and his wife Kathleen were married in 2004 and have a son, Lee born in 2007, and a daughter, Madeline Ray born in 2010. Contact Jay at (423) 757-6273 or jgreeson@timesfreepress.com and follow him on Twitter at @jgreesontfp.
Friday was the three-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that paved the way for each state to decide whether to legalize sports betting.
by Jay GreesonI am not ready to write that these Braves are not good yet. Because they are.
by Jay GreesonSo now the federal government is buying shots.
by Jay GreesonHey, get your fill on that here. Go right ahead and break down which revenge game is best and how Tom Brady returning to Foxboro has you giddy.
by Jay GreesonI need some help here, because I pray the Braves are not going to waste the unlimited potential of the best young player this franchise has produced since some skinny kid with quick wrists named Henry was moved from second base to the outfield.
by Jay GreesonOK, among the oft-discussed matters around these parts, there are a few.
by Jay GreesonWe are making great strides in re-establishing the normal rhythms of life: students returning to school, mask mandates expiring, vaccination efforts progressing. Families are planning vacations, and weddings are on the calendar.
by Jay GreesonAfter Keith Mitchell and Luke List entered Sunday's final round first and fourth and played in the final two groups, CBS's coverage was a three-hour-plus Baylor golf infomercial, and we need to see if Jim Nantz has a kid there the way he was fawning over the excellence of the Red Raiders.
by Jay GreesonIt was a nearly perfect Armed Forces Day Parade through the streets of downtown Chattanooga on Friday.
by Jay GreesonOK, let's handle our BID-ness.
by Jay GreesonLooking around our cordial city, it's hard not to believe we're starting to step toward our next normal.
by Jay GreesonThis Hawks team is the best the franchise has offered since the Budenholzer bunch won 60 a handful or so years ago. And more than that, they are fun to watch.
by Jay GreesonLadies and gentleman, let's enjoy the early marvels of the exploits of Huascar Ynoa, who has stepped into the massive void atop the Atlanta rotation and is swatting big flies.
by Jay GreesonThe Lookouts return to the field tonight and fans can return to the stands. (Tonight is sold out, although the weather is not looking promising. Figures.)
by Jay GreesonWhat lawmakers hope will be the final week of the Tennessee General Assembly will be a busy one.
by Jay GreesonDid you see that every SEC team had at least one player picked? The SEC had the most players drafted (65) for the 15th straight year.
by Jay GreesonUntil they get an ace, the Braves can and likely will be good and potentially very good. But it's hard to see them ever being champs without one.
by Jay GreesonUnless you were going into surgery or cleaning someone's teeth on Thursday, you were not required to put on a mask in Hamilton County.
by Jay GreesonGot a prediction for the draft tonight?
by Jay GreesonMerry Draft eve everyone. What did your team put on its wish list?
by Jay Greeson