Wiedmer: A fond farewell 40 years in the making
It was October of 1982. The phone rang in the bungalow my bride and I were renting on Grosvenor Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky.
Stories by Mark Wiedmer
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Wiedmer: Could Bama and Georgia be vulnerable enough for UT to shock the world?
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Wiedmer: May Chattanooga never lose the Ironman competitions
Chattanooga's traffic patterns returned to normal Monday evening.
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Wiedmer: Auburn’s Pearl and YellaWood a perfect fit
Yep, Auburn has officially become a college basketball school.
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Wiedmer: Two games along, neither Falcons nor Titans showing much promise
Uhggggg-leee. Times two. Maybe times four if you want to include all four of the disappointing games the Atlanta Falcons and Tennessee Titans have played to da…
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Wiedmer: Tennis won’t be the same without Regal Roger
Sunday, July 14, 2019.
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Wiedmer: Mocs already good, but can get so much better
Can you feel it growing? The interest? The confidence?
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Wiedmer: Can tennis’s next generation continue Serena’s most important legacy?
A Black girl beginning her senior year at predominantly white Girls Preparatory School, Santana Etchison and her mom watched what figures to be Serena Williams…
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Wiedmer: Could college football’s firing squad next target Auburn’s Harsin?
A fool and his money soon part ways.
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Wiedmer: Lookouts should be fine if minor leaguers join MLBPA
Over the 30 years that he's been employed at almost every level of minor league baseball, Chattanooga Lookouts president Rich Mozingo has seen the extreme side…
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Wiedmer: Could Dawgs become first SEC team other than Bama to repeat as national champs?
From pretty much the day it was first formed in December of 1932, the Southeastern Conference has been known for its prowess in college football above all else.
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Wiedmer: Mocs may finally have the quarterback they need to succeed
Amazing the difference a quarterback can make.
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Wiedmer: Love or loathe Serena Williams, she’s never compromised to succeed
To thine own self be true.
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Wiedmer: Do Braves need Strider to start or close in order to win the World Series?
Spencer Strider to the bullpen?
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Wiedmer: Former UTC star Corey Levin likely to be a Titan again
"Football and family" is how former UTC offensive lineman Corey Levin sums up his life these days.
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Wiedmer: Heupel, not Frost, was the right Central Florida coach to hire
On those too rare autumn moments that his precious time is not consumed by being the Voice of the Tennessee Titans, few citizens of the Volunteer State bleed o…
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Wiedmer: Tuesday went from bad to worse for Vols football
As days go, Tuesday was not one of the better ones for University of Tennessee football.
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Wiedmer: Is NCAA seeking transformation or obliteration of the UTCs of college athletics?
The good folks at the NCAA are calling it "transformation." They even formed a "Transformation Committee" -- chaired by Southeastern Conference commissioner Gr…
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Wiedmer: Atlanta gives Braves Country seven days to remember
Suddenly, the Atlanta Braves' lost weekend in New York seems like a long time ago.
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McCallie tops Chattanooga Christian for 17th straight victory
Two-hundred fifty-nine days had come and gone since McCallie School won its third straight TSSAA Division II-AAA football state championship.
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Wiedmer: Vols deserve better treatment from AP poll
Others receiving votes?
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Wiedmer: Time for NFL to make Deshaun Watson truly sorry for having no regrets
Few people learn from their mistakes unless they are forced to pay a price for those mistakes.
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Wiedmer: Does your favorite SEC program lean toward football or basketball?
In light of recent developments at the University of Kentucky, your humble scribe couldn't help but wonder which SEC schools should consider themselves one or …
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Wiedmer: No one has turned tragedy to triumph better than Jordan Thomas
Jordan Thomas had every reason to cry, mope, fall into the worst depression imaginable that August afternoon in 2005.
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Wiedmer: Could the Braves actually wind up missing the playoffs?
Now that the Atlanta Braves have laid a really big egg in the Big Apple, is it fair to ask if their near-certain lock on the National League playoffs isn't qui…
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Wiedmer: Is football Vols' talent good enough to match their dreams?
Sept. 1. Three weeks from this Thursday. That's all the time that's left before it's once again Big Orange football time in Tennessee.
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Wiedmer: UTC staffers believe when coaches are alumni, it just means more
There are five UTC football coaches on staff at their alma mater this season.
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Wiedmer: Braves make no trade deadline splash, but they didn't last year, either
In Alex Anthopoulos we trust.
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Wiedmer: Does Watson ruling reveal the truth or further cloud it?
The truth. The whole truth. Nothing but the truth.
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Wiedmer: Braves know how to be the lords of the rings
Twenty years. That's how long Chattanooga native Michael Smith's shiny dome and easy smile have greeted fans, foes and media members at Atlanta Braves home gam…
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Wiedmer: Is greed about to end the college football traditions we've long known?
He may not admit it, but Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff is a desperate man these days.
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Wiedmer: UT's Hendon Hooker a college athlete even a Southern Miss fan can cheer
For several years now, Red Bank Baptist Church has hosted one of the best Christian speaking events for young people anywhere.
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Wiedmer: Younger may be better this time around for UTC football
Dr. Nate Barger knew the one-word answer before the question was asked.
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Wiedmer: Bo Jackson knows we all need each other
Maybe the wrong 1980s Heisman Trophy-winning running back from the Southeastern Conference dressed in a No. 34 jersey is running for national office.
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Wiedmer: UT's Donde Plowman deserves her own statue at Neyland Stadium
If the NCAA Committee on Infractions' bite proves to be no harsher than its bark regarding its investigation into alleged University of Tennessee recruiting vi…
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Wiedmer: Braves may not catch the Mets, but they can still repeat as world champs
Is it time to admit that the New York Mets just may be a better baseball team, at least at the MLB All-Star break, than the Atlanta Braves?
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Wiedmer: Scenic City may never see another tennis player and person the equal of Wes Cash
They are coming from everywhere to see their dear friend Wesley Cash, the Chattanooga tennis great who's struggling mightily to overcome esophageal cancer.
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Wiedmer: Tiger should focus on British Open instead of LIV
Over the course of a very distinguished professional golf career, Tiger Woods has won over $120 million in prize money, easily the top figure in career PGA Tou…
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Wiedmer: Can UT's Rise Glorious mission statement succeed where Jerry Maguire's failed?
Ever since the fictitious sports agent Jerry Maguire wrote his heart-felt, ill-fated "The Things We Think and Do Not Say" mission statement for the agency he w…
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Wiedmer: Braves-Mets will send one of the two to the All-Star break happy
The Atlanta Braves' summer surge is bringing them All-Star recognition and closer and closer to the New York Mets, who are about to visit Truist Park in a big …
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Wiedmer: Why can't Chattanooga build a better school system and a better ballpark?
With deepest apologies to the 16th century rapper Billy Shake, it seems as if our fair city has been overcome by the following choice: "To build, or not to bui…
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Wiedmer: Braves beginning to play like the defending World Series champs
By the time you read this, the Atlanta Braves will be one game past the midway point of the 2022 season, having either won or lost Tuesday night's game against…
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Wiedmer: If all you care about is college football's Haves, two 26-team leagues are perfect
The SEC Network's resident genius and truth teller Paul Finebaum first suggested the doomsday scenario for college football as we've long known and loved it la…
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Wiedmer: Appreciating the difference in Independence Day and July 4th
Independence Day. July 4th. We think they're one and the same. One of the greatest, if not the greatest sportscaster of all time, Vin Scully, begs to differ, h…
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Wiedmer: Are there more pros than cons to travel ball?
Is all this money worth it? Are parents really going to be rewarded with four-year athletic scholarships that make yearly five-figure financial outlays pay off…
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Sports booster: UTC's Mark Wharton ramps up school's investment in sports
When he was first named the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's athletic director in the late summer of 2017, it didn't take Mark Wharton long to pinpoint…
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Wiedmer: Firecracker Invitational a patriotic marvel in troubled times
Almost everywhere you look, you see a deeply divided America these days.
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Wiedmer: Ole Miss wins a CWS that seemed destined to go to UT
The juggernaut that was the University of Tennessee baseball team for so much of these past four months had to be shaking its collective head in anger and frus…
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Wiedmer: Could it be that Freddie Freeman regrets leaving the Braves?
Regrets. We all have them.
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Wiedmer: GPS alum Teresa Lawrence Phillips a Title IX pioneer in more ways than one
Two days before she was to graduate from Vanderbilt in the spring of 1980, Teresa Lawrence was working out in the school's weight room when Emily Harsh, VU's w…