by design | May 21, 2024 | The Daily Focus
Honor Fountain City Day in the Park ~ from the City of Knoxville’s Office of Neighborhood Empowerment, Fountain City Town Hall is pleased to present Honor Fountain City Day in the Park on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Fountain City Park, 5345...
by design | May 20, 2024 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I am not a women’s basketball fan and thus have not paid much attention to all the adoration for Caitlin Clark. When I was on the faculty at the University of Tennessee, I went to very few of the Lady Vols...
by design | May 20, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
UT Needs To Put Students First, Make Professors Teach More Classes By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com Regular readers of my column may remember that my mother moved here from Iowa after she finished at Iowa Wesleyan College. She had come here to visit an...
by design | May 20, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
Sports indifference is the healthier choice By Mark Nagi I wasn’t going to write an article this week. I’ve been busy with work and family, and frankly, I didn’t know if I had the mental bandwidth to type out a few hundred words. But then I got back to the palatial...
by design | May 20, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
Why, Tell me, Why? By Tom Mattingly This is the stuff of which orange-colored memories are made. Late in the first half in the 1991 Notre Dame game, the Fighting Irish led 31-7 and were trying a field goal to extend the lead. Things looked bleak for the Vols. Remember...