by Mike Steely | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely The highway runs from Rocky Top (Lake City) to Halls Crossroads and, among other landmarks, crosses TVA’s Norris Dam, the agency’s first hydro-electric producer. But Norris Freeway is more than just a road that did not exist before the 1930s and much...
by Tom Mattingly | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Bowl games are fickle creatures, almost two games in one. One team might dominate for a half, and after intermission the other team comes back and makes a game out of it. The 1966 Gator Bowl, No. 22 in the bowl’s history, was such an affair. It was...
by Mark Nagi | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Well, here we are again. Another football season for the Tennessee Volunteers, and another coach that is on the proverbial hot seat. Yes, we have certainly been down this road before. Pruitt is the fifth head coach at UT since 2008. That much...
by Joe Rector | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The year 2020 just keeps getting better. We’ve struggled through a presidential election where the incumbent still hasn’t conceded but claims that illegal voting has stolen the race from him. On top of that, the entire world faces a pandemic that in...
by Ralphine Major | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major “In the beginning of my second-class year which would be a college junior, I decided I did not want to make the Navy a career. I resigned near Thanksgiving in 1947 and went to Beckley (West Virginia) to work for my Dad in his store, Neville Maytag...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan I often get phone calls from tenants who will start the conversation talking about how terrible their landlord is and how the landlord will fix nothing and they are living in the worst living situation there ever was. Then they get to where...