by design | Aug 27, 2023 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
Black’s parents signed him up to play at C-N By Steve Williams On Carson-Newman’s 1963 football roster, Bobby Black, senior co-captain, was listed as a 6-3, 200-pound center. Back then, 60 years ago, that was considered pretty good size for a college lineman. Over the...
by design | Aug 20, 2023 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
Fulton’s father figure and guiding light passes away By Steve Williams Bob Black was a longtime teacher, coach and administrator at Fulton High School. And on top of that, he became a father figure to the students and a guiding light for many years. After being on the...
by design | Jun 19, 2023 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
Emmett Machinists knock off Quicksteps in Vintage Base Ball By Steve Williams I had heard about vintage “base ball” being played at the Historic Ramsey House, but I had never been to a game. So Saturday afternoon (June 10) I finally got out there to check it out. I’m...
by design | Jan 9, 2023 | Columnist, Williams
Cummings plans to take a year off to watch son play By Steve Williams It’s been a little over three weeks since the surprising news came out that Scott Cummings had resigned as head football coach at Oak Ridge High School. That got me to wondering about Cummings’...
by design | Oct 24, 2022 | Columnist, Williams
A ‘number’ of things happened as Vols turned the Tide By Steve Williams Many adjectives were used to describe Tennessee’s recent triumph over Alabama at Neyland Stadium. Here’s a new one for you: eerie good. See what you think … The long-running SEC series was played...
by design | Sep 12, 2022 | Columnist, Williams
Sportsmanship seen in TSD game was a first for me By Steve Williams There were two football home openers in Knoxville on Sept. 1 – the Tennessee Vols hosting Ball State at Neyland Stadium and the TSD Vikings entertaining South Carolina School for the Deaf at Chambers...
