by Mark Nagi | Apr 4, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman The best event in the NCAA is the men’s basketball tournament. For three weeks, the nation is captivated by the established powers and the underdogs, all put in the same 68 team bubble, until one squad reigns supreme. Even with the academic sham that...
by Mark Nagi | Mar 28, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman We all know that college athletics can be a cesspool. Shady recruiting, entitled players, fake classes, unfair transfer rules, blowhard coaches, the scam that is season tickets/donations… and we could spend weeks talking about how coaches and...
by Mark Nagi | Mar 7, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Let’s put aside the allegations of HGH use by Al Jazeera. Let’s forget about the disputed details of an incident from 1996 in the Tennessee training room. Let’s just talk about football, and whether or not Peyton Manning will be on an NFL roster...
by Mark Nagi | Feb 29, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman It. Just. Keeps. Getting. Worse. Over the past few weeks, the University of Tennessee has made mistake after mistake in the eyes of the public. Some of those errors are serious in nature, others are fairly inconsequential, and others are out of...
by Mark Nagi | Feb 15, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman As of press time, Peyton Manning had yet to make a decision as far as retirement. But it is hard to imagine that “The Sheriff” won’t ride off into the sunset now… Denver’s 24-10 dismantling of Carolina in Super Bowl 50 wasn’t Manning’s best...
by Mark Nagi | Feb 8, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman All coaches say that they are happy with their recruiting classes on National Signing Day. Heck, Derek Dooley put a rose on that Class of 2012 that didn’t have one offensive lineman in the bunch. Not one! But Tennessee coach Butch Jones actually does...
