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Derek Dooley is proving to be a patient recruiter - in most cases.However, Tennessee's first-year head football coach isn't afraid to leap in front of the pack when he sees an opportunity to land the right prospect, especially one that resides in state.Dooley didn't waste any time offering a scholarship to Derek King, the versatile 5-foot-11, 184-pound athlete from Brentwood Academy. The Vols ...
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The Madness is on; I mean March Madness for both high school and college. The 2010 Farm Bureau Insurance of Tennessee basketball championships get underway Wednesday in Murfreesboro, while the boys tournament opens on March 17.
When Louisville played its final game in Freedom Hall and upset No. 1-ranked Syracuse last Saturday, my thoughts flashed back to 1941-52 when the SEC men's basketball tournament was played in Louisville's Jefferson County Armory.
On the field, everything appears to be in place for Derek Dooley.The new Tennessee football coach put together his first signing class, completed hiring his staff and also has a full roster ready to start spring practice next week. As of Tuesday, he even has a kickoff time for the Orange and White Game (April 17, 2 p.m.).But as Dooley has repeated every time he's been in public since taking over ...
Will Sam Bradford come out slinging like a franchise passer? What will Jimmy Clausen, Rolando McClain, Taylor Mays, Colt McCoy show? Rob Rang looks at coming pro days and their possible draft impact.
KNOXVILLE -- Bobby Campbell never believed his grass was always greener on the other side of the field.
KNOXVILLE —Bobby Campbell never believed his grass was always greener on the other side of the field.For 20 years as UT’s sports turf manager, Campbell has grown, watered, nurtured, clipped, edged, weeded and doctored every blade of that green grass on every living Big Orange playing and practice surface the Knoxville campus had to offer.But Campbell is calling it a career. The 64-year-old ...
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -Michigan State receivers B.J. Cunningham and Mark Dell have been sentenced to 18 months of probation and 150 hours of community service for their roles in a Nov. 22 campus fight.
Today 's question: What mascot should Ole Miss students choose to replace Colonel Reb -- and why? The new mascot should be a Revolutionary War soldier. It would be the figure of a person with a tricorner hat, blue coat and pants of the revolutionary period. Since the colonists in those days were called "rebels" by the British, this would work to replace Colonel Reb. This figure would be more ...
Expect SEC commitments to come in flurries as spring football practice begins this month.Visits to campuses across the region always lead to several early announcements.Schools that have undergone a coaching change, like Tennessee, should certainly benefit.Prospects can watch tape of Derek Dooley's teams at Louisiana Tech but before they see him at least direct a practice, they won't have much ...
What March 6, 1967, gave to the Tennessee basketball program, March 6, 1978, took away.Both days belong to Ray Mears.On March 6, 1967, the Vols won the SEC basketball title, their first in 24 years, at Starkville, Miss., Tennessee 78, Mississippi State 76, in three overtimes. It was, as Marvin West said, a "wonderful game if measured by intensity."Exactly 11 years later, the "Ray Mears Years" at ...
Watching Greenville High School senior James D. Smith earn the Coaches 4 Character Award at the Carolina First Center, Friday night got former University of Tennessee football coach Phil Fulmer thinking about a former Vols student.
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