Sports

The 2014 Community Viking baseball season still brings back wonderful memories for Coach Robbie Davis. The Vikings peaked at the right time and used a strong playoff push to become the first Community team to punch a ticket to the TSSAA state baseball tournament...

To say that it’s been an emotional yet exciting time for Josh Puckett and his family since he was named the new head football coach at Shelbyville Central would be a huge understatement. With the entire world basically on standby due to COVID-19, business as usual doesn’t exist for the most part...

There perhaps has been no greater local pitching rivalry among high school athletes than between Jared Carkuff of Cascade and Bryan Smith of Eagleville. The pair graduated back in 2012, but were electric on the mound. Both, Cascade and Eagleville eventually earned state tournament bids and Eagleville eventually played for the state championship...

This is a rare time for sports. At no point in the recent history has there been such an extensive effort to combat a pandemic that resulted in a complete halt of live sports action at every level of every competition for seemingly every sport. During the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the staff of the Times-Gazette will revisit local games from the past and relive the greatest Bedford County athletics moments through new reporting...

For former Community Viqueen standout Lacey Reed, the choice of selecting Martin Methodist College to further her basketball career was a decision she would still repeat today. In four years at Martin, Reed amassed 725 points while gathering 452 rebounds. Her teams qualified for the NAIA national tournament three times, albeit her senior year was cut short this season without an appearance in the tournament...

The Shelbyville Sharks have had a rough time trying to find consistent practice time. Earlier this year, the Sharks were unable to utilize the indoor pool at the Shelbyville Recreation Center due to the closure for repairs. This early season closure forced the Sharks to work on “dry land” workouts, consisting of cardio and muscle building...

CHARLOTTE, N.C — The NFL is delaying the start of its offseason workout program while formulating a plan with the NFL Players Association on how to proceed during the coronavirus pandemic. At least for the time being, NFL coaches won't be allowed to communicate with players via videoconferencing...

Tom Brady, J.J. Watt and Adrian Peterson are among eight unanimous selections to the 2010s NFL All-Decade Team announced Monday by the NFL and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Also chosen on every ballot of the 48-member Hall of Fame selection committee are Von Miller, Aaron Donald, Joe Thomas, Marshal Yanda and Justin Tucker. All but tackle Thomas and guard Yanda are active...

The British Open will not be played this year for the first time since 1945, golf officials announced Monday as they tried to reconfigure a major championship schedule that would end with the Masters being played two weeks before Thanksgiving. Still to be determined is when — or even if — golf can resume depending on the spread of COVID-19 that has shut down sports worldwide...

Let’s all join together and put a little light in the lives of the graduating class of 2020. With COVID-19 putting the entire world at a standstill, Shelbyville Central's administration and faculty decided to join in on a movement that is going viral across the country, honoring the senior class of 2020...

It only took a global pandemic, but it finally appears the NCAA is starting to make rational decisions that affect the landscape of collegiate athletics. So many times in recent years the NCAA has had opportunities to enforce a stiff penalty or allow a student to transfer which would ordinarily violate regulations...

These are strange times we’re living in. Never before, at least in my lifetime, has there never been such an extended time without sports. It’s really a tough gig to have the one beat you’ve spent covering for the last decade to essentially disappear overnight without a given timetable to return...