by design | Feb 28, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Does anybody remember the basketball games produced by TVS, the early SEC syndicated television package, a highlight of Saturday afternoons in January and February in the 1960s and 1970s, sometimes into March? If you wanted to see SEC hoops on...
by design | Feb 28, 2022 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com He wore No. 10 and was a Tennessee Volunteer point guard on the men’s basketball team. From 1972 to 1975 Rodney Woods ran the point for Ray Mears. What was so unusual about Woods was the fact that he came from the Bluegrass State,...
by design | Feb 28, 2022 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector joerector@comcast.net My goodness, the past week has been a busy one for our country. Covid appears to be easing its two-year grip on the planet, and with just a little luck and without some new variant appearing, we might just return to a new kind of...
by design | Feb 27, 2022 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Congratulations, Jon Rysewyk The Knox County School system has a new superintendent. Dr. Jon Rysewyk has been the assistant superintendent since 2017. Six out of nine members of the Knox County Board of Education voted for Rysewyk. Jon Rysewyk is a...
by design | Feb 27, 2022 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The 1956 Presidential Election in Tennessee II By Ray Hill Democrats all across the South had gathered in Knoxville, Tennessee, to plan the strategy for the fall campaign at the end of August in 1956. At least ten states had been represented, including much of the...
by design | Feb 27, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Unfortunately for the American people, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have been very good for each other. When President Biden came into the White House, one of his first actions was to shut down a major oil pipeline. That and...
