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The summer recruiting circuitPosted Friday, May 27, at 2:06 PM Athletes all over the country that want to test the waters of collegiate sports after their high school careers end are making major plans for the summer. The object is to be seen and to display skills before the very eyes of coaches and scouts that make decisions on who will be recruited and who will get scholarship offers...
The football nerd in me came out at an early age, long before the NFL Network or Carolina Panthers existed. As a child, remaining glued to the tube sporting oily hair and pajamas were commonplace for certain April Saturdays as I viewed the breakdown of all the NFL Draft selections and anticipated the name on the card of my favorite team. Even sported a notepad and pen to log the first two rounds' picks...
Ariel Massengale gets her chance to put her basketball skills on display on national television as she takes part in the McDonald's All-American game. Tip-off is at the United Center in Chicago tonight at 6:30. It will be aired on ESPNU. The boys game will follow on ESPN at 9...
'How does a 16-year-old kid have cancer?' Life has shown me that there is no pain that rivals that of a parent losing a child. I saw it when Jonathan David Hollingsworth suddenly passed with an aneurysm at the age of 13. "J.D." as he was known among classmates at Connelly Middle School and Marshall County High School was practicing at an adjacent Babe Ruth baseball practice field when the aneurysm occurred. Coaches helped him continue breathing until paramedics arrived...
The Green Berets' moto is: De oppresso liber. It's Latin for: to liberate the oppressed. Tennessee took a slightly different route in hiring its latest conditioning coach, Ron McKeefery. After being at South Florida 2000-10, McKeefery left coach Skip Holtz' staff following their Meineke Car Care Bowl victory over Clemson to take a position as the human performance coordinator for the United States Army Special Forces, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, in Fort Campbell, Ky...
A special story "Of course my family will never be the same. But, it will never be bigger." Former Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry's imminent death left his mother, Carolyn Henry Glasby, with a decision to make. Her strength altered the lives of four families forever...
Tennessee accepted an invitation today to play in the 13th annual Franklin American Mortgage Music Bowl against North Carolina in Nashville at LP Field on Dec. 30 at 5:30 Central. "When we actually talked about potential matchups, we actually let (Music City Bowl president Scott Ramsey) know that Carolina would be our first choice to play for a variety of reasons," Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said...
Auburn's QB cleared South Carolina football fans hoping to gain an advantage in Saturday's Southeastern Conference championship in Atlanta will have to look elsewhere if hoping Auburn quarterback Cam Newton would be ruled ineligible by the NCAA. The NCAA admitted there was a violation of the rules of amateurism and Auburn declared Newton ineligible, which it had to do to get the NCAA to reinstate its Heisman Trophy candidate...
The ping of college baseball is quickly becoming more and more popular and the sport just received a shot in the arm as ESPNU announced its inaugural Thursday Night SEC Baseball Game of the Week, which will begin on April 7. "The Thursday night package of SEC games on ESPNU is a great opportunity for us to showcase the outstanding baseball that is played in our conference," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said in a press release. ...
There I was behind Alabama's end zone with a bird's eye view of Gerald Jones stretching the football across the plane and Luke Stocker absorbing a big hit on key pass receptions. Both triggered a Tennessee comeback that sent chills through the Bryant-Denny crowd. You really could feel the cold sweat stirring...
As the high school football season progresses in Tennessee, the teams deserving votes at or near the top of each classification become increasingly simpler. With the lone exception being Class 6A. I've personally voted for Smyrna, Oakland and now Maryville for the top spot in the largest classification. Can't wait to see how it plays out in the postseason. Don't sleep on the Williamson County teams, Brentwood and Franklin. They tend to get overshadowed by the Rutherford County squads...
As the high school football season progresses, the gap between contenders and pretenders widens. Some teams that elected to go with cupcakes for non-district/region opponents are feeling the effect of facing formidable foes as league play is starting to get hot and heavy...
A feature segment on Tauren Poole during Sunday's "The Derek Dooley Show" got me thinking about what some players are willing to subject themselves to in order to accomplish their goals. Long before Poole started toting the football for the Tennessee Volunteers, Travis Stephens endeared himself into the hearts of Vol Nation...
High school football votes are in For the second straight week, I punched my ballot for the Associated Press Tennessee high school football poll. I have posted my votes in this blog in the past on occasion. I believe we had 10 media outlets vote last week and the results were shaky in some respects. That's to be expected with so many people voting on teams they have never seen and with the season being so young...
Still a kid at heart Having played organized baseball for over a decade past high school, I can vouch for a man still wanting to trot onto the diamond long after crowds are charged admission. One local guy that's not only still playing after college ball but is also excelling is Josh Horn, which is no surprise to many who know him. A career at Shelbyville Central in the early 2000s didn't lead to SEC and pro scouts drooling all over him. Nevertheless, Horn was not to be denied...
Postseason format "What matters most is May." I've heard that countless times from a few coaches, which they beat into the heads of their players so they know to turn it up a notch when their seasons are on the line in the postseason. Speaking of which, every year about this time I get to thinking about the format that both baseball and softball use to determine their state champions in Tennessee. It's quite different from some other states...
Cooper braves the cold Welcome to college baseball Jordan Cooper. One of the top pitching arms to ever come out of Bedford County made his debut for the Kentucky Wildcats on Feb. 20. Just four days after his 20th birthday, the Shelbyville Central product tossed a scoreless 1 1/3 innings at the back end of a 6-0 Wildcat win over West Virginia in the Caravelle Resort Tournament on Vrooman Field in Conway, S.C...
Rodgers has my vote New Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley has his hands full as the clock is quickly ticking away with National Signing Day looming. As I stroke these keys he has 12 days remaining. Dooley's logged plenty of frequent flyer miles trying to get his first recruiting class up to snuff with Southeastern Conference foes. Reportedly, he's already been in Florida, Georgia, Texas and Virginia...
The search for a football coach to replace Lane Kiffin at Tennessee has resulted in roughly 1,437 various rumors upon last count. Allegedly, Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, Air Force coach Troy Calhoun, TCU's Gary Patterson and Connecticut's Randy Edsall have all pulled their names out of the hat...
A heavily-scrutinized selection process for Southeastern Conference schools has come to a close for Tennessee football fans. The Volunteers have accepted an invitation to the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta. "We're absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to host the Volunteers again in the Chick-fil-A Bowl and give coach (Lane) Kiffin his first bowl experience at Tennessee," said Gary Stokan, Chick-fil-A Bowl president and CEO. ...
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Danny Parker is sports editor of the Times-Gazette.
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