Deputy Sports Editor Ron Bush is a Chattanooga native and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduate who began working in the sports department of the News-Free Press in November 1979. Among his many duties since then were four years as the afternoon paper's beat writer for the UTC men's basketball team. He became a sports copy editor in 1994 but has continued to write stories on a variety of sports subjects. He is in the Greater Chattanooga Area Sports Hall of Fame.
B.A.S.S. announced Wednesday that Chickamauga Lake will host the second tournament in the 2020 Bassmaster Elite Series.
by Ron BushThe Dalton State men's golf team polished off a 26-stroke triumph Tuesday in the Memphis Shootout with a collective 858 for three rounds, led by medalist Ben Rebne at 4-under-par 206 on the TPC Southwind course.
by Ron BushThe UTC women's soccer team tied Alabama 1-1 on Sunday afternoon at the UTC Sports Complex.
by Ron BushChattanooga Patriots senior Chase Faudi won Saturday's Cherokee Classic high school cross country meet.
by Stephen Hargis and Ron BushThe first game in the 125th year of Sewanee football kicks off Saturday at 2 p.m. EDT at the Tigers' Harris Stadium.
by Ron BushEamon Zayed's goal in the 83rd minute gave the Chattanooga Red Wolves Soccer Club a 2-2 road draw against Toronto FC II.
by Ron Bush and Patrick MacCoonDalton resident David Noll Jr. is one of four inductees announced Tuesday for the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame's class of 2020.
by Ron BushThey didn't have to see it to believe it — just to appreciate it fully.
by Ron BushUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga golf coach Colette Murray is 3-for-3 in winning the Chattanooga Women's City Amateur championship, but the third time was different. She won from behind on the final day.
by Ron BushChattanooga State softball coach Blythe Golden knows St. George, Utah.
by Ron BushThe Tennessee Wesleyan baseball team is 27-6 after winning 5-1 and 6-3 Wednesday at Cumberland (20-12).
by Ron BushThe usual excitement of the start of a baseball season has extra oomph this week for the Chattanooga State Tigers, who are scheduled to open against Georgia Highlands with three games Friday and Saturday in Emerson, Georgia.
by Ron BushLed by defensive player of the year Isaiah Mack, nine University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football players were named All-Southern Conference for 2018 on Tuesday.
by Ron BushLee's Lady Flames are going to the NCAA Division II semifinals in Pittsburgh.
by Ron BushZacori Hill of Boyd Buchanan and Hannah Holland of Sale Creek will be teammates at the next level.
by Ron BushLilly Smith had no high school running career, which makes her sensational Covenant College career even more remarkable.
by Ron BushPaul Hough won the Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon in 1987. He was in the military, stationed at the time in Hampton, Virginia.
by Ron BushEast Ridge High School is going back in its history to try to move forward in softball.
by Ron BushThis is homecoming weekend at Covenant College, and it's an extra special one for women's soccer coach Mark Duble.
by Ron BushSwimming more than 13 hours straight in chilling water with strong, changing currents and hordes of the world's largest jellyfish stinging, stinging, stinging her all over, Jenny Smith knows in painful detail why fewer than 50 people have completed the 21.5-mile North Channel swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland.
by Ron Bush