by Steve Williams | Jun 14, 2020 | Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:, Williams
By Steve Williams A friend of mine, the late Aaron Keen, was founder of Rocky Top Views, a UT sports publication, in the early 1990s and needed a delivery person for the East Tennessee area. I took that part-time job to supplement my teacher aide position in ISS at...
by Steve Williams | Mar 16, 2020 | Columnist, Williams
Did we get it right? By Steve Williams “I think the media are blowing this way out of proportion and are frightening a lot of people unnecessarily.” Those were the words of Dr. Jerry Punch, longtime ESPN sports broadcaster who now makes his home in this area and is a...
by Steve Williams | Mar 9, 2020 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams In a way, Tennessee’s post-season basketball season has already begun. The March Madness for the Vols started after back-to-back road losses at Auburn and Arkansas in February. At that point, getting invited to the Big Dance seemed out...
by Steve Williams | Mar 2, 2020 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Grant Williams and Admiral Schofield left the Tennessee basketball program last year affectionately known as “Peanut Butter and Jelly.” So, with their former teammate’s collegiate career winding down, I’m going to call Jordan Bowden The Crust....
by Steve Williams | Feb 24, 2020 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Baseball was once considered America’s national pastime. But it lost that distinction to the popularity of football many years ago. Instead of remaining the great game it was, it has lost much, much more over the years because of some players’...
by Steve Williams | Feb 10, 2020 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Don’t sell short Tennessee’s 69-68 win over Alabama last week. Beating the Crimson Tide in basketball hasn’t come easily for the Vols over the years, not even for some of their best teams. And battling back from 15 points behind in Tuscaloosa as...
