And so another football season comes to pass for The Daily Times and the high schools it covers after a 70-game regular season, 16 playoff games, three BlueCross Bowls, two state championships and one more fantastic fall.
Saturday the world marked the 50th anniversary of man’s landing on the lunar surface. Today, newspapers mark the 50th anniversary of that news being distributed to their readers in print.
The Wise Old Owl strikes again. As Maryville College issued the speculated upon announcement confirming that after 38 seasons as the head men’s basketball coach at his alma mater, the upcoming 39th campaign would be Randy Lambert’s last, the coach of 700-plus victories in over 1,000 games wa…
If you look at the honest to goodness numbers, the election may have been close, the message was a landslide consensus of one people divided by their common frustration.
Friday night’s football jamboree was a great night.
Don’t play poker with Shaun Hayes.
It’s the dog days of summer, which is one of the best times of the year in Blount County for athletes and the family and fans who love to watch them play.
Remember how terrible Tennessee’s play-it-safe approach looked in the wake of those lose-from-ahead setback defeats to Oklahoma, and Florida and Arkansas?
Pat’s final gameplan was a masterpiece.
Team USA’s four-goal victory Wednesday night in the group stage of Copa America felt a little flat. It was exciting just for the fact the 2-0 loss to Colombia in Friday’s opener was still so fresh.
Start the countdown football fans it’s 90 days until a new prep season officially kicks off.
Bearden coach Mark Blevins doesn’t remember the first time we met, which is fair. It wasn’t a monumental moment, just a brief conversation in the hospitality room at the district tournament that Bearden was hosting.
It took about 180 seconds for the outcome to become clear.
It’s been the stuff from which legends are born. Greenbacks season has had enough odd twists and turns to inspire a Homeric adventure, the kind of moments Hollywood wouldn’t have to embellish to keep the audience riveted. Through it all, the 46 players with an ad hoc coaching staff have had …
Charlie Brown didn’t get to kick the football again this year.
There’s a lot of football left to go in Shaun Hayes’ first season as Maryville College’s head coach.
Deep in the bowels of The Daily Times Sports Collection, Information and Dissemination Command Center a lot of events come across the radar screens. In the mass of basketball tournaments, league signups, team car wash notices, hiking, running cycling, pancake breakfasts, kickball standings a…
There’s the sound of gnashing teeth and piles of pulled out hair blowing like early fall leaves across the river. There’s a bit of a pop in the step and smiles over on this side of the river, at least around the Maryville College campus.
Heritage coach Tim Hammontree put the humble sports editor on the spot in the aftermath of the Mountaineers’ victory over Gibbs two weeks ago.
For a coach that’s always put the spotlight near the bottom of his priority list, Mike Rader either has a knack for these things or the football fates watching over his career have a certain perverse sense of humor.
The William Blount boys golf team beat Maryville Thursday afternoon.
The prep golf season officially opens Monday, kicking off the new Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association calendar on a new school year.
The heat acclimation period for high school football in Tennessee opens today. For the next week teams can practice in shoulder pads and helmets in preparation for next week, when practice in full pads can begin.
And so the clock struck midnight on the Lady Vols.
My Confederate battle flag went in a box last week.
There were a lot of fantastic moments at the TSSAA Spring Fling last week.
It already is “One Tennessee.” It doesn’t need to be One Vol fits all.
Maybe there’s more parity in the NCAA women’s bracket then there once was. Or maybe March is just out to get Tennessee and the Lady Vols.
With UT’s first eight points on her ledger before taking a blow, call Bashaara Graves’ performance Saturday an application of the third and fifth rules of bracketology.
If anyone needed another testament to the need for a fuel rewards card and a suitcase to appreciate this Tennessee basketball team’s potential it was duly written in UT’s rally against Vanderbilt in Nashville and certified with the Vols spending another day in the SEC tournament.
There’s a new captain and a new course correction for the Maryville College football team, but the change has been, if not seamless, at least as smooth as a post Signing Day coaching change can be reasonably expected to go.
Basketball in East Tennessee is a lot like the snow that’s bedeviled it the week.
Maryville College’s basketball teams tip off a makeup double header in Fayetteville, N.C. tonight visiting Methodist University.
And this year I’ll spare you, our dear readers, from my mangling of any Christmas carols.
There isn’t a recap of the Maryville-Alcoa game included in the commemorative section chronicling the runs to the championship game. It’s not an accident, it’s by design.
Christmas came early to the Volunteer State on Sunday.
Three state title games can mean the world, even a Jurassic sized one.
The Lions said they had gotten better since losing to Alcoa in last year’s 3A BlueCross Bowl, and they were.
With the wraps almost on this USA South football season, and effectively it is for those teams returning to league play in 2015, there’s one glaring issue on the horizon for the conference to address. Respect.
Alcoa’s 2015 football schedule made the rounds Thursday and was floating around on social media by late afternoon, proudly displaying the fact that for the first time in a decade the Tornadoes will be playing all of the other three teams that call Blount County home.
As Christopher Newport University left the field Saturday after celebrating in the wake of victory and claiming the USA South title it was the end of an era. Many will not miss the Captains all that much.
Turns out that all that preseason talk about balance in the USA South wasn’t just the typical media days of July coach speak.
It has an official name on the sideline and in the huddle. It has several unprintable alternative references provided by the teams who have been on the other side of the Maryville College goal line sweep package. In the press box, we call in Clan McRader Right.
It’s out of the frying pan and into the fryer for Maryville this week as the Red Rebels complete the opening run of three teams that made it to Murfreesboro last year in the District 4-AAA opener at Knox West.
So when a reader’s email came across my desk asking why we refer to the Maryville-Alcoa game as the “Six Mile Series,” I had to stop and think.
The real winner from Alcoa’s headline dominating two games in three day adventure may be the state of the state’s high school football.
The hint of fall isn’t even in the air yet but football is upon us once more as Maryville College hosts the USA South Football Media Day.
The Blount Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament is back in business this week.
There’s nothing quite as momentarily slow and suddenly exciting as baseball.
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