If you could call it an “era,” it officially ended Wednesday. The University of Tennessee fired women’s basketball coach Holly Warlick after another disappointing season for the Lady Volunteers. Athletic director Phil Fulmer, himself no stranger to the Tennessee ejector seat, made the announcement in a press release. Warlick Out at Tennessee “Holly and I […] More
Pretty much every day over the last couple of weeks, I’ve wanted to write something about the absolutely insane shenanigans going on in Knoxville, Tenn. Then, right as I was about to get started, something else completely nutso would happen. It’s been a Rocky week on Rocky Top, but the light at the end of the tunnel was a new head coach for the University of Tennessee football team, former Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, and a new athletic director, former national championship-winning Vols head coach Phil Fulmer. More
We’re counting down the 1,785 bowls to the big ones, but today, on a Friday, we get the bowl I care most about; the Music City Bowl. The No. 21-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (8-4) take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers (9-3) at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. As always, scroll on down for the live blog. Keep […] More
You’re going to see a lot of words used to honor former University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt over the next few days. You’ll see “legend,” “Icon” and “Hero” and none of them will do her justice. Summitt was unparalleled in her sport, the best of her generation and long after. She not […] More
It’s been an eventful offseason for Butch Jones and the University of Tennessee football program and not in a good way. In fact, it’s kind of the worst way. The entire athletic department is caught up in a Title IX lawsuit filled by six unnamed women alleging that the university, according to the Tennessean, “created […] More
“I have fought the good fight and I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” […] More
