Mark Wiedmer

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.

Spencer Strider to the bullpen?

“Football and family” is how former UTC offensive lineman Corey Levin sums up his life these days.

The good folks at the NCAA are calling it “transformation.” They even formed a “Transformation Committee” -- chaired by Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey and Ohio University director of athletics Julie Cromer -- to spearhead the agenda.

They are coming from everywhere to see their dear friend Wesley Cash, the Chattanooga tennis great who’s struggling mightily to overcome esophageal cancer.

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 worked for, the so-called mission statement - however lightly followed it may be - has become a must-have item for schools and businesses large and small.

It was the late U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt who once described his ideal foreign policy as one that would “speak softly and carry a big stick.”

When this country quite rightly celebrates the 50th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, one could understand if former Notre Dame High School and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga baseball pitcher John Sellman might be less than thrilled to honor the occasion.

As Swing Ding partners Garth Brown and Trey Moore approached Lookout Mountain Club’s 18th tee box late Sunday afternoon - their championship match against the father-son duo of Jim and Max Markley all tied up with one hole to play - there was no way the 63-year-old tournament wasn’t going to have both a history-making and feel-good finish.

The morning sun beating down on a Lloyd Ray Smith Area 4 Special Olympics Games for the first time since 2019 on Saturday morning, director Judy Rogers scanned the Hixson High School football field filled with 102 Special Olympians, broke into a wide smile and said, “It’s so wonderful to be together…

The first stop of the 2022 Big Orange Caravan was almost at its end Tuesday night when Bob Kesling, the Voice of the Tennessee Vols and the emcee for the event at Chattanooga Whiskey, threw it open for questions to Lady Vols basketball coach Kellie Jolly Harper and football coach Josh Heupel.

Remember last year’s lengthy NBA playoff run by the Atlanta Hawks under then interim coach Nate McMillan?

The first time Jim Suddath met then new Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski in the spring of 1980, the rising senior was on crutches due to a left knee injury.

It doesn’t take long to appreciate the overwhelming historical strength of next weekend’s Final Four in New Orleans.

It doesn’t take long to appreciate the overwhelming historical strength of next weekend’s Final Four in New Orleans.

Nearly a month has come and gone since former Notre Dame High School and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football star Kareem Orr stood on the sideline as a member of the Los Angeles Rams practice squad for Super Bowl LVI.