by design | Dec 11, 2023 | Columnist, Nagi
The College Football Playoff Committee Failed By Mark Nagi Last week the College Football Playoff Committee picked the four teams that will take part in the playoff. 13-0 Big Ten champion Michigan and 13-0 Pac 12 champion Washington were no brainers. 12-1 Texas won...
by design | Dec 10, 2023 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Jane George: Another Lockstep Liberal Jane George, a failed candidate for the Tennessee State Senate four years ago, has announced she’s off and running for Congress. George is a Democrat and says at least where fiscal policy is...
by design | Dec 10, 2023 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Raymond E. Willis of Indiana By Ray Hill Raymond Eugene Willis was literally born into the printing business. His father, Frank, had been a veteran of the Civil War and owned the Waterloo Press. The son of “a country editor” and one of six brothers and eight children,...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘After an extensive nationwide search…’ By Tom Mattingly Sometimes, the best coaching search is no search. Case in point. Go back to Dec. 3, 1976, a day Big Orange Country had anxiously awaited. A Tennessee legend was coming home as head football...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Nagi
Where Tennessee Football Stands Today By Mark Nagi Well, the regular season is now complete for the Tennessee Volunteers. The Vols finished at 8-4 and now wait for word on their bowl game destination (which was not yet known when The Focus went to press). There are...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Rector
Bullies make life harder By Joe Rector As has been stated in other pieces of mine, I was an ugly child. No, that doesn’t mean things are different now. A young boy with a burr haircut, buck teeth, a round belly, and popsicle-stick legs has little eye appeal. He is,...
