by Mark Nagi | Dec 2, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman On November 11th, Tennessee’s men’s basketball team opened the season with a road game against Xavier. A late Vols rally fell a bit short in a hostile environment, with the Musketeers hanging on for a 67-63 victory. The next day on local sports talk...
by Mark Nagi | Nov 4, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Bruce Pearl is waiting… just as he has been since March of 2011, when he was relieved of his duties as Tennessee men’s basketball coach. In August of that same year, the NCAA slapped a three-year show-cause penalty on Pearl, stemming from recruiting...
by Mark Nagi | Oct 28, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman According to Google, Webb School and Knoxville Catholic High School are only separated by 1.9 miles. These days the power in their rivalry is located on the west side of that roadway. On Thursday, October 24th, the Spartans beat the Fighting Irish 34-7,...
by Mark Nagi | Oct 21, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Back in March, Tennessee football coach Butch Jones was the Grand Marshal for the Food City 500 Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. He was impressed with what he saw at the track that some like to call “The Last Great Colosseum.” “The magnitude...
by Mark Nagi | Oct 14, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman There are few athletes from East Tennessee that have accomplished as much in their professional careers as Tyson Clabo, a 2000 graduate of Farragut High School. But because his trade is a rather anonymous one, on the offensive line in the National...
