by design | Jan 8, 2024 | Columnist, Nagi
A sneak peek at 2024 in sports By Mark Nagi Well, it is that time. Here’s hoping that you all had a wonderful New Year’s and best wishes for the 360 or so days ahead. Regular readers of this column know that I like to get out the crystal ball at the start of every...
by design | Jan 8, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘A unique glow, a unique ambience’ By Tom Mattingly In this business, it has always been fascinating to look at some of the game films (most now on videotape) and photos from Tennessee home games from the 1950s into the early 1970s, almost all played in...
by design | Jan 7, 2024 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Claudine Gay Resigns… Good Riddance Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, has offered up her resignation after her abysmal performance at a now notorious congressional hearing. Gay might have survived that episode had it...
by design | Jan 7, 2024 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Re-electing the Senator: The Final Campaign of William B. Bate By Ray Hill By 1903, only two men had ever been elected to a fourth term in the United States Senate from the State of Tennessee: Isham G. Harris and William B. Bate. The two men had several things in...
by design | Jan 2, 2024 | Black, Columnist
Happy Anniversary, Emancipation Proclamation By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com January 1st is the 161st anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Although universally acknowledged as an important historical document, the reasons for...
by design | Jan 2, 2024 | Columnist, Duncan
Thousands Of Small Children Are Being Killed In Gaza By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com “A badly burned toddler screamed for a mother he didn’t know was dead, screaming because doctors didn’t have enough painkillers.” “An eight-year-old whose brain is...
