by design | Jan 12, 2026 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi The College Football Playoff is broken. I know it. You know it. We all know it. From the completely unnecessary weekly ranking programs to the inherent bias towards Alabama, to their absurd parameters that they may or may not follow, the entire system is...
by design | Jan 12, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Most Tennessee basketball fans today know a great deal about Thompson- Boling Arena, a passable amount about Stokely Athletics Center, and darned little about the Armory-Fieldhouse. That’s too bad, because the precursors to TBA were the site of some...
by design | Jan 11, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley Thank You, President Trump The military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, was both bold and brilliantly executed. Maduro sat atop a criminal government that had been almost certainly voted out of office and was only able...
by design | Jan 11, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill For decades, Tennessee was either a largely or solidly Democratic state, especially in statewide elections. Democrats also dominated the congressional seats from Tennessee save for the First and Second Congressional Districts. Tennessee had only once...
by design | Jan 5, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus By Dr. Jim Ferguson I don’t remember making New Year’s resolutions. Maybe my reminisces have just been lost in the metaphorical sands of time. After all, I don’t remember phone numbers like...
by design | Jan 5, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely Let’s take a road trip along what was the Great Warrior’s Path and is now Highway 25E. Let’s head north and stop here and there along that road, originally blazed by Daniel Boone, and start at Bean Station. That little town was a very...
