We're used to seeing those big video boards at college and pro sports arenas. But now they're popping up at high school football stadiums. Bradley Central and Calhoun have installed the jumbo screens on their scoreboards, and both head coaches…
(utsports.com) IRVING, Texas – Tennessee football legends Willie Gault (1979-82), Bobby Majors (1969-71) and Al Wilson (1995-98) were announced to the 2021 National Football Foundation (NFF) College Football Hall of Fame ballot, the organization announced Tuesday. The 2021 list includes 78…
Longtime fan favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr. will join his late father in NASCAR's Hall of Fame next year, the feature attraction in the class of 2021. Junior won 26 races during his Cup career, including two Daytona 500s and the…
You hear football coaches talk all the time about the need for depth. Gotta have depth for competition and endurance. But smaller high schools don't have that luxury. We caught up with coaches from Grace, Lookout Valley, and Sale Creek…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - NASCAR is set to allow up to 30,000 fans at the track in Bristol next month when it moves the All-Star race out of Charlotte Motor Speedway for just the second time in the history of…
NEW YORK (AP) - Several baseball players have tested positive for COVID-19 and Commissioner Rob Manfred says there might be no major league season after a breakdown in talks between teams and the union on how to split up money…
If you want to talk about wild football finishes, the 2016 Georgia-Tennessee game certainly fits the bill. You had two touchdowns in the final 20 seconds with one touchdown turning Vols receiver Jauan Jennings into a UT legend. The Voice…
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball and its players are moving closer to a deal or to Commissioner Rob Manfred ordering a shortened season without an agreement. According to details of the proposal obtained by The Associated Press, MLB…
MIAMI (AP) - Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a plan for Saturday, one unlike any other he’s had in more than two decades of getting behind the wheel at NASCAR events. He’s going to fly to Homestead-Miami Speedway and arrive in…
The NCAA is encouraging its 1,100 member schools to give athletes the day off from their sports on election day in November. In response to nationwide protests of police brutality, Georgia Tech announced earlier this week it was giving nine…
The NCAA football oversight committee has finalized a plan for an extended preseason that would include an additional two weeks for teams to hold walk-throughs. The proposal goes to the Division I Council, which meets Tuesday, and is expected to…
The UTC women's basketball team tipped the 2012 season with one of their greatest wins in school history. They finally beat the Lady Vols for the first time in twenty tries, which spoiled the debut of Tennessee coach Holly Warlick.…
Georgia pitcher and former Heritage high school star Cole Wilcox was drafted by the San Diego Padres Thursday in the third round of the MLB Draft. He was the 80th overall pick. As a draft eligible sophomore, Wilcox could decide…
(gomocs.com) UTC announced a date change for its season opening football game at Western Kentucky today. The Mocs kick off the 2020 slate in Bowling Green, Ky., on Thursday, Sept. 3. UTC was originally scheduled to face the Hilltoppers on…
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) - Martin Truex Jr. cruised down the stretch and won his first NASCAR Cup race of the season on Wednesday night in the first race under the lights at Martinsville Speedway. Truex won the Martinsville grandfather clock…
(utsports.com) PASADENA, Calif. -- Making his college football debut on the famous and historic Rose Bowl Stadium turf, Peyton Manning was formally introduced to the football world when he trotted onto the field in Pasadena as a true freshman at Tennessee…
Cleveland, TN-(WDEF-TV) A big, fast receiver is a luxury in football, and it's one Bradley Central has enjoyed over the last few years in Tray Curry. The 6'5 wide-out has verbally committed to Tennessee, after racking up over 1,200 all-purpose…
(press release) ATLANTA – The Atlanta Braves tonight selected left-handed pitcher Jared Shuster of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. with the 25th overall pick in the 2020 First-Year Player Draft. Shuster, 21, made four starts for Wake Forest during…
NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from all events and properties. NASCAR says the Confederate flag “runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry.” Former chairman Brian France…
(soconsports.com) SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The 2020 Southern Conference Hall of Fame class includes members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame, a 10-year Major League Baseball veteran, an NCAA pioneer and an NCAA…
Former Heritage high school pitcher and Georgia sophomore Cole Wilcox is expected to go in the first round of the MLB Draft Wednesday night. Vanderbilt sophomore pitching sensation Kumar Rocker should go in the first round next year. We got…
(press release) Talladega, Ala. – NASCAR announced today a plan to introduce the return of fans to its race events, which includes the GEICO 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, June 21. NASCAR’s modified event procedures,…
Ringgold, GA-(WDEF-TV) Georgia high school football teams were finally allowed to workout Monday for the first time in three months due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Perhaps no team was more anxious to get back to work than Ringgold after…
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…