by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Words are our tools of communication. JVF I don’t know how I became interested in words. My teachers would certainly attest to the fact that my efforts in English education were at best perfunctory (an action carried out with minimum effort). I...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jed McKeehan Let’s say you are having a phone call with a contractor about work that went badly, or perhaps you are meeting with your child’s other parent and you are worried that the conversation will later be described very differently. Can you pull out your...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi It is the Third Saturday in October, and you know what that means! Alabama Hate Week. One of southern football’s greatest rivalries will be renewed on Saturday afternoon at Neyland Stadium as Tennessee hosts Alabama. And in a neat nod to history,...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams A friend of mine, Tom Heck, gave me the following story to tell on “Bama Week” and “the Third Saturday in October”. It’s about his Uncle Len Coffman, who played for the Tennessee Volunteers in the late 1930s. Had it not been for the University of...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly In my years of watching and covering University of Tennessee football, I have concluded that the great players always had a “look,” maybe even a “swagger,” to them. That was obvious in the spring of 1976, when I was invited to observe a...
by design | Oct 12, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor This week marks 49 years since one of baseball’s most unforgettable nights. On October 18, 1977, the New York Yankees faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the World Series. New York’s...
