by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Lost weekends’ By Tom Mattingly Over the years, there have been several “lost weekends” over the course of Tennessee athletics, a time when everything that could go wrong did. The recent Vanderbilt hoops weekend was one of them, two one-point losses at...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
Super Bowl LIX Preview By Mark Nagi Ugh. Are we really doing this again? Super Bowl LIX is coming up on Sunday, featuring the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs. Like the dynastic Patriots, the Chiefs are the darlings of the league and seem to get every break known to...
by design | Jan 27, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
The storm was building as kickoff approached By Tom Mattingly It’s still only January, but the memories of football seasons past are with us on an almost daily basis. It doesn’t take much to get the memory banks charged up. Someone says, “I remember the time,” and the...
by design | Jan 20, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
Drama underneath the south end By Tom Mattingly Interesting things go on in the visiting team dressing area after the game. That assertion comes after spending time in the visitors’ media area post-game from 1989 through 2006. There’s drama underneath the south end...
by design | Jan 13, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
Orange and White checkerboards on Florida Field By Tom Mattingly There are good bowl games, and there are bad ones. Hang around long enough, and you’ll see more than your share of each. Bowl games are hyped to the heavens, but you never know what you’re going to get...
by design | Jan 6, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
Quickly billed as an ‘ESPN Classic’ By Tom Mattingly There was a time in college basketball that even the biggest games were not on television. There were, for example, times that both games of the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament were played on Thursday...
