by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com I wish Vladimir Putin could have seen the video and heard the heartbreaking cries of anguish from the mother in Ukraine as she followed her six-year-old daughter into the emergency room where she died, killed by...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com That Anthony Fauci is truth-challenged should come as no surprise since he is a life-long unelected politician. The old adage now applies: how can you tell if Fauci is lying? His lips are moving. If you...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass By Dr. Jim Ferguson Did you watch it? I didn’t. I never liked watching the annual Presidential SOTU addresses, but I always felt it was my duty as a citizen. That...
by design | Mar 6, 2022 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Like anything in life, sports also can get off track every now and then … A recruiting violation occurs. A rule is broken. A fight breaks out during a contest, etc. And when they do, there are people in positions to determine what the penalties or...
by design | Feb 28, 2022 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Do you remember? I’m sure you remember. In 2021, the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team went on a spectacular run that ended in Omaha. It was the Vols first trip to the College World Series in 16 years. That was a team that had so much personality. Far...
by design | Feb 28, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Does anybody remember the basketball games produced by TVS, the early SEC syndicated television package, a highlight of Saturday afternoons in January and February in the 1960s and 1970s, sometimes into March? If you wanted to see SEC hoops on...