Tennessee’s Class of 2022

  By Mark Nagi Recruiting is an inexact science to say the least. You really don’t know what a Class will look like until 2-3 years after those kids arrive on campus. But at least for now, Tennessee fans should feel good about the Class of 2022. The early signing...

Oh, The Places You’ll Go

By Mark Nagi Back when my daughters were little and I used to read to them, one of my personal favorites was “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” This was...

Mike Hutchens’ Last Ride

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...

Tennessee’s Unexpected 2021 Season

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...

Let Sports Take You to New Places

  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....

Powell’s Walter Nolen makes a big impact

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....