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Treasured sports memento holds key across generations
Earlier this month, my sister and I were combing through some of my late father’s possessions in his LaFollette home. Sifting through years of family history and struggling with the realization tha...
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Jason Davis: Football time is nearly here
Two weeks and one day. Three-hundred and sixty hours. Twenty-one thousand, six-hundred minutes. The first day of prep football practice across Tennessee. The wait is nearly over.
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G-P, Pigeon Forge still alive for playoffs
Okay, this should be fun. I’m going to try to explain the new playoff picture for the two local teams playing football in District 3-AA. The two teams that ironically happen to be playing each othe...
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Did you see Indy as half full or half empty?
During the Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday the empty seats around the facility were unmistakable. Scores of unfilled bleachers rimmed the historic track as it hosted what...
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Seymour’s Freddy Smith still roaring around the dirt
*Note: The National Dirt Late Model Hall of fame induction ceremonies will take place the weekend of August 13-15. Since there are two members of that Hall of fame living in our area I thought it w...
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Anybody else sick of LeBron hype?
For those of you out there that weren’t on the edge of your seat last night waiting to hear The Decision, I understand completely. Personally, I would’ve rather been watching the Cincinnati Bengals...
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Commentary and Opinion: Choosing All-County baseball team was tough
After two years of consideration, I decided to pull the trigger this year on an all-county baseball team.
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Serian Frahm, of Memphis, and Mike Byrley, of Chicago (right), enjoy the U.S. and England World Cup match at The Fox and Parrot in Gatlinburg. Jason Davis/The Mountain Press
Patience and atmosphere vital for enjoying the World Cup
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it 10 times this summer — who cares about the World Cup? I, for one, and about two billion other people around the globe.
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Depite records, two teams can hold heads high
Everyone who follows basketball in Sevier County knows what kind of year the Gatlinburg-Pittman Highlanders and the Pigeon Forge Lady Tigers are having — a good one — with a combined 40-9 mark at t...
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Local driver making his way in NASCAR
Near the end of the 2009 NASCAR schedule Michael Waltrip Racing announced that Trevor Bayne would compete full time for their organization in the upcoming Nationwide Series season. Bayne is a nati...
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NASCAR insiders are out of touch with reality
Just before the Martinsville race this fall there was a panel type show in which Larry McReynolds, Chad Knaus and others from the SpeedTV network sat down with NASCAR Competition Director Robin Pem...
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What’s wrong with the Titans dates back to 1975
What’s wrong with the Tennessee Titans this year? I mean, how can a team that compiled the best regular-season record in the league last year at 13-3 suddenly find themselves in an 0-6 hole to star...
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Why exactly did NASCAR warn Hendrick teams?
Imagine that during this weekend’s Tennessee vs. Georgia game the referee suddenly switched on his microphone after a particular play to announce, “I just wanted to say that Georgia did not hold on...
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Does the delay with Ford engine indicate a problem?
Ford announced back in January of 2009 they would introduce a new engine package for their NASCAR teams at some point during this season. Doug Yates, who is among those heading the project, origina...
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Friday is banner night for Sevier football
It was a great evening to be a football fan in Sevier County.
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As a new era in Volunteer football begins, something's missing for me
How odd it must have looked to anyone near me in the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, that a grown man would be crying at the sound of Rocky Top.
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