NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball teams have proposed a 76-game regular season with up to 16 playoff clubs in a coronavirus-delayed year. People familiar with the discussion told The Associated Press about the plan Monday on condition of…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The PGA Tour returns this week at Colonial with a different look and perhaps more voices. CBS Sports anchor Jim Nantz will be alone in the booth at the Charles Schwab Challenge as the network…
This week marks the anniversary of one of the wildest managerial explosions in baseball history. Mississippi Braves skipper Phillip Wellman put on a show during his tirade against the Chattanooga Lookouts back in 2007, right here in the Scenic City.…
(chattanoogaredwolves-sc.com) TAMPA, Fla. (June 5, 2020) - The Chattanooga Red Wolves Soccer Club is pleased to announce that the League One Board of Governors voted today in favor of a framework returning the league to play for the 2020 season,…
Chattanooga-(WDEF-TV) Grace Academy is having to rebuild after a tornado demolished their school in April. That means the football team had to find a new place to work out. And like so many in times of disaster, they turned to…
(tssaa.org) The TSSAA Legislative Council held a special called meeting on Thursday, June 4 to discuss the summer Dead Period. While some felt that the Dead Period has been made superfluous due to the COVID-19 pandemic response, the motion to…
NFL coaches will be allowed to return beginning Friday to team facilities closed because of the coronavirus pandemic as the league continues preparation for training camps and its season. Commissioner Roger Goodell told the 32 clubs that coaching staffs may…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback Jake Fromm apologized for using the phrase “elite white people” in a text conversation from more than a year ago, and posted on social media early Thursday morning. The former Georgia starter…
The NBA’s Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida. The notion passed “overwhelmingly," according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on…
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball is no closer to starting the 2020 that it was when the union made its latest proposal on Sunday. A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that MLB has rejected…
(utsports.com) Tennessee football legend Johnny Majors passed away early Wednesday in Knoxville. He was 85. A 1987 inductee of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame, John Terrill (Johnny) Majors played for the Volunteers from 1954-56 and…
The major league baseball draft goes down next week. Even though the draft has been cut to just five rounds this year, former Heritage pitcher and Georgia star Cole Wilcox should hear his name called fairly early on June 10th.…
NASCAR is set to return to Nashville, Tennessee in 2021. Nashville Superspeedway will hold a Cup race for the first time next season. It ends NASCAR’s decade-long absence from the track. The Nashville track is owned by Dover Motorsports, Inc.…
Red Bank, TN-(WDEF-TV) Hamilton County high schools were allowed to start summer football conditioning on Monday. Of course schools like Red Bank haven't been able to do anything football related since mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Lions head coach…
Former Auburn football coach Pat Dye has died at the age of 80. Dye took over a downtrodden program in 1981 and turned it into a Southeastern Conference power. The Lee County coroner says Dye died Monday at a hospice…
NEW YORK (AP) - Major league teams have released hundreds of young players with the minor league season in doubt due to the coronavirus pandemic. Over 200 players were cut Friday and more than 400 have been released over the…
Taylor Lewan anchored a Titans offensive line last year that helped pave the way for Derrick Henry to become the NFL's leading rusher. With the addition massive offensive lineman Isaiah Wilson as a first round draft pick, the Titans offensive…
(utsports.com) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Athletics will host the first "Big Orange Connect," a virtual fan appreciation event featuring head coaches and administration, at 6:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 3. Volunteer fans can watch the event live for free on Tennessee…
Nick Saban's weekly press conferences often turn into good theater when he goes off on a rant. They're certainly entertaining, unless you're the reporter who asked the question that got him going. So what's it like to cover the SEC…
The Georgia Bulldogs have landed a highly touted transfer quarterback. JT Daniels announced on social media that he's leaving Southern Cal for Athens. Daniels is a former five star recruit. The redshirt sophomore missed every game last season, but one…
ATLANTA (AP) - As he prepares to welcome his players back to campus, Georgia coach Kirby Smart says they’ll be safer working out under the school’s supervision than on their own. The Southeastern Conference has voted to reopen athletic facilities…
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(gomocs.com) CHATTANOOGA---Chattanooga Mocs Head Men’s Basketball Coach Lamont Paris added a third new addition to the 2020-21 roster with forward Mark Tikhonenko. He comes to the Scenic City from Sam Houston State although this is not his first visit. Tikhonenko,…
Chattanooga-(WDEF-TV) Hamilton Heights basketball coach Zach Ferrell has stepped down. He's taking an assistant job at Eastern Florida State College, who is coached by Jeremy Shulman, the nephew of former Mocs and McCallie coach John Shulman. Zach played for John…
Cleveland, TN-(WDEF-TV) High School football is back at Walker Valley. The Bradley County health department along with the Bradley County superintendent gave the Mustangs the green light to start summer workouts. And of course there are plenty of precautions for…
NEW YORK (AP) - College football conferences and television networks have agreed to hold off on announcing start times for early-season games. CBS Sports, ESPN, Fox Sports and their affiliated networks typically announce early game times for the Football Bowl…
The NHL says it will abandon the rest of the regular season and go straight into the playoffs with 24 teams if it is able to resume play. Commissioner Gary Bettman says the decision is not a guarantee that games…
Hard to believe it has been twenty years since the most famous play in Titans history. The 'Music City Miracle'. Titans in their first ever playoff game in Nashville hosting Buffalo. Down 16-15 with 16 seconds on the clock. Lorenzo…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - NASCAR on Monday suspended three critical crew members for Denny Hamlin’s team because a piece of tungsten fell off his car on the pace lap before the Coca-Cola 600. The tungsten is required to meet minimum…
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Former Howard quarterback Caylin Newton, the younger brother of ex-Carolina Panthers starter Cam, says he is transferring to Auburn. Newton announced his decision on Twitter Friday, following in his brother’s footsteps. Cam Newton won the Heisman…
When the college football season eventually kicks off, Alabama will once again be among the favorites for the SEC title. Veteran radio host Ryan Fowler of 100.9 The Game in Tuscaloosa sizes up what the Tide might look like this…
(utsports.com) Southeastern Conference leadership on Friday voted to allow voluntary, in-person athletics activities on league campuses starting Monday, June 8. Each SEC institution will make localized decisions regarding when and how student-athletes shall return. "We are prepared and excited for…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Vanderbilt has removed the interim title, making Candice Storey Lee the first woman to run a Southeastern Conference athletics program. With Vanderbilt’s announcement Wednesday, Lee now is among only five women and the second black woman…
High school ball fields and gyms will soon be unlocked in Georgia. The GHSA announced Thursday that high school athletes can resume on campus conditioning on June 8th. The initial proposal had a June first return, but several board members…
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Alabama and Arizona have agreed to a home-and-home football series in 2032 and 2033. The first meeting between the Crimson Tide and Wildcats will be Sept. 4, 2032, in Tuscaloosa. The rematch will take place in…
Chattanooga-(WDEF-TV) Hopefully we'll see the return of high school football this fall. In the meantime, here are our top ten most unusual plays from last season.
(gomocs.com) The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga continues to excel in its Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, according to the information released by the NCAA today. The Mocs had three programs receive public recognition last week, and this week's release…
Baylor has named their boys basketball coach Mark Price as their new athletic director. Price replaces Thad Lepcio, who was recently named the athletic director for Peddie School in New Jersey. Price takes over an athletic program that has won…
Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill and tight end Jonnu Smith have the buddy system going for them during this pandemic. Besides all of the zoom meetings, they're fortunate enough to work out with each other since they don't live too far…
Furman is eliminating baseball and men’s lacrosse as part of a university-wide plan to offset losses due to the coronavirus pandemic. The school said Monday the cuts would save about $5 million going forward. There are no plans to reinstate…