by design | Jan 30, 2024 | The Daily Focus
2021 protesters face criminal hearing By Mike Steely Back in 2021, several people protesting the school shooting death of Anthony Thompson Jr. were charged with disrupting a Knoxville City Council and Knox County Commission meeting. After almost three years the case...
by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
Giving new meaning to the term ‘birds-eye view’ By Tom Mattingly In December 1966, the Basketball Vols opened the William B. Stokely Athletics Center, an enlarged version of the Armory-Fieldhouse on campus. Seating capacity went from 7,500 in the Armory to...
by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
MacIntyre Commitment Bodes Well for UT By Mark Nagi There was a time when the Tennessee quarterback position was the land of misfit toys. Quinten Dormady. Jarrett Guarantano. Brian Maurer. J.T. Shrout. Will McBride. Harrison Bailey. You might not remember all those...
by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Steely
Olde Time Memories More Than A Day Away by Mike Steely One of the benefits of getting old, which we assume begins at age 60 or 65, isn’t just qualifying for social security, retirement, Medicare or “senior discounts” but age bringing back memories of childhood. We can...
by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Major
The Kindness of Strangers By Ralphine Major I could almost hear a “hush” as white beauty blanketed the earth. Millions of tiny white crystals fell from the sky. They could be seen clinging to barren tree bark and turning hayfields of summer into a sea of white. 2024’s...
