by Joe Rector | Nov 26, 2018 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Variety is the spice of life. I’ve discovered the truth of that statement again during the days of substituting. Some days I know in what subject I’ll be substituting, but many days are filled with surprises. On many days, I enter the school knowing what...
by design | Nov 26, 2018 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore September and October were not good months for me. Let me tell you. Labor Day I opened the door of my pantry and bottle of vinegar fell on my left foot. I doctored it with ice and pain medicine and it seemed to get better. Then, suddenly, it...
by Mark Nagi | Nov 26, 2018 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman It is a day that will go down in the annals of the history of the University of Tennessee. Not just UT’s athletics history, but the entire University. Sunday, November 26, 2017. The date that Tennessee athletics director John Currie expected to...
by Steve Williams | Nov 26, 2018 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Knoxville has had its share of special TSSAA playoff games and moments over the years, and not all of them have to do with winning a championship or coming up just a point short. When the classification system was adopted in 1969 and the first...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Nov 26, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan Step-parents sit in unique situations. They are in a relationship with someone who has a child who is not their own, and by being in a relationship with this person, they have become a step-parent to this child who is not their own, and may never...
by design | Nov 19, 2018 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Southerners are generally a friendly bunch, certainly by comparison to, for instance, New Yorkers or Parisians during the late summer tourist onslaught. My son-in-law from Ohio tells the story of our trip to pick up a boxer for the farm tractor....
