by design | Feb 19, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
A for-sure ‘Vol for Life’ By Tom Mattingly Gus Manning, a respected and legendary figure in the University of Tennessee Athletic Department and across the expanse of the campus and state, and wherever Vol fans gather, died Feb. 12 in Knoxville. Across Vol Nation, soft...
by design | Feb 13, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘You have to be 21 to win the Heisman’ By Tom Mattingly In the context of Tennessee football history, consider the impact of Sunday evening, Jan. 9, 1994, when Vol quarterback Heath Shuler held a media conference that filled Vol fans with dread and all those other...
by design | Feb 6, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
The decade of the 1950s was an exciting one for Tennessee fans By Tom Mattingly In 2007, Sports Illustrated named Tennessee the “Team of the Decade” for the 1950s as the Vols compiled a 72-31-4 record overall, 38-20-4 in the SEC, and earned a consensus national title...
by design | Jan 30, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Procuring a post-game comment from opposing coaches at Neyland Stadium and Thompson-Boling Arena was always an exciting pastime. All kinds of things happened under the stadium’s south end or down a distant corridor under the northeast side of TBA that...
by design | Jan 23, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
A Triumphant Trip By Tom Mattingly When Tennessee squared off against New York University on Dec. 5, 1931, at Yankee Stadium, it may not have been an officially recognized bowl game (the NCAA doesn’t count this and other Depression-era bowl games in all-time records),...
by design | Jan 16, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘The best football broadcast ever heard in this town’ By Tom Mattingly Watching the barrage of televised college football bowl games over New Year’s weekend brought back memories of those long-ago days there were four games on the tube on New Year’s Day, the Cotton...
