Mark Wiedmer

You win a college basketball game by two points on two free throws with 7.6 seconds to play after trailing by three points inside the final three minutes, there's a lot to focus on at the finish.

Is University of Georgia national champion quarterback Stetson Fleming Bennett IV the best American sports story ever?

It was early Monday afternoon inside Thompson-Boling Arena and Rick Barnes was preparing his basketball team for Tuesday night's visit from South Carolina some 18 hours away.

Most folks determined to watch Monday night's College Football Playoff title game between Alabama and Georgia from inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis will have to pay a minimum of $425 on the secondary ticket market for that experience. And that's for the worst seats in the house.

It can be difficult to explain the impact UTC basketball great Wayne Golden and his fellow Mocs who won a national championship in 1977 had on the Scenic City.

When does a good play become a bad play in a college football game?

It can be easy not to like Tom Brady. For starters, the Tampa Bay quarterback is too dang handsome; especially to be 44 years old with more than 20 seasons of NFL hard knocks.

As player after player was lost to injury this season, including the best one on the roster, Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel never whined, moaned or made excuses.

Could this major college football season end any other way?

It didn't take long for SEC Network studio host Peter Burns to become the Big Orange Nation's all-time favorite talking head at the close of Tennessee's gut-wrenching, heart-stopping, highly controversial overtime loss to Purdue in Thursday's Music City Bowl.

The SEC may well still be a football conference, but its basketball could be must-see TV this winter starting Wednesday night.

It was Thursday afternoon, less than 24 hours from Christmas morn, and the woman was shopping just to shop.

Earlier this week, YMCA Community Action Project's Tommy Hobbs collected 20 food boxes from Silverdale Baptist and distributed them to families that YCAP serves throughout the Chattanooga area at its downtown, Ooltewah and Cleveland locations.

There are games you can't lose, or at least shouldn't, if you expect to reach the Super Bowl. The Tennessee Titans lost just such a game Sunday.

Are we really, as we had all hoped, anywhere near the end of this pandemic and all its restrictions?

Could the University of Alabama become the only program other than fellow Southeastern Conference brother Florida to win a football and men's basketball national championship in the same school year?

There's much truth to the old adage that you can't choose your family, we can at least hope that when either or both of our family and friends are in need, we'll choose to help them.

Oh, what a difference a year makes in Big Orange Country.

It seemed like nothing more than a garbage-time touchdown pass at the time.

Larry Baker was anything but an average basketball player at Riverside High School in the spring of 1969.