by design | Dec 6, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi The Knoxville Catholic Boys’ Basketball program won’t be the same come March. Whenever their season ends, that will also mark the completion of the long and successful coaching career of Mike Hutchens. “40 years is a lot of anything,” Hutchens said. “I...
by design | Nov 29, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi When the 2021 football season got underway for the Tennessee Volunteers, expectations were extremely low. Jeremy Pruitt had been fired as head coach, and athletics director Phillip Fulmer was forced to retire. An NCAA investigation into recruiting...
by design | Nov 22, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi In the 1990 classic “The Hunt for Red October,” Captain Vasili Borodin has a great conversation with Captain Ramius aboard the nuclear submarine, which is on its way to America for the purposes of their defection from the USSR to the United States....
by design | Nov 8, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi If you go to a Powell Panthers football practice, Walter Nolen is pretty much impossible to miss. And college scouts certainly aren’t missing him. The Powell defensive lineman is a consensus 5-star prospect, and one of the top recruits in the nation....
by design | Nov 1, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi When Butch Jones took over as Tennessee’s head coach following the 2012 season, the Vols went 5-7 and missed a bowl game. When Jeremy Pruitt took over as Tennessee’s head coach following the 2017 season, the Vols went 5-7 and missed a bowl game. Will Josh...
by design | Sep 13, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi I love baseball. I love everything about it. I love going to a ballpark, smelling the hot dogs and the beer. I love how the sport is played with breakneck speed at a deliberate pace. I love the history. I love that Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays...
