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Tennessee Football–What I’d Do

Actually, it’s what I’d do in just about any situation. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know much about football at all. I mean, I played for 10 years, but most of the teams I played on weren’t very good, so it’s safe to assume that most of what I learned was wrong [...]


Our Own Hot Coffee Lawsuit

It looks like the little town of Knoxville has finally arrived.  We’ve got a hot coffee lawsuit on our hands.  That’s not a hot lawsuit about coffee, it’s a lawsuit over hot coffee. The lawsuit alleges that the 23-year-old Triplett drove to a Starbucks on Kingston Pike on July 13 and bought coffee via the [...]


The Phillip Fulmer Show

I didn’t see much of the game yesterday, but I’m sitting here now enjoying Phil Fulmer’s stoicism on his show. It’s amusing. You know, when you use the phrase “Chad had a fantastic second half”, and Chad is your punter, things can’t be too good on offense. Punters on good teams don’t have the opportunity [...]


It’s Halftime. Can Fulmer be Fired Midgame?

I’m admittedly only halfway watching the Tennessee/Florida game, but what I’ve seen is atrocious. It looks like I stopped caring about college football a few years too early. I should have waited until this year to jump off the bandwagon. Every fan deserves at least one season of pure agony, right? I’m not talking about [...]


So Close To Being Smart

I was really interested when I heard that it may have been a University of Tennessee student, David Kernell,  who was clever enough to “hack” into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! mail account. But then there’s this… The hacker guessed that Alaska’s governor had met her husband in high school, and knew the Republican vice presidential candidate’s [...]


Christmas in September

Via Michael Silence, gas in Knoxville is at $3.99: That would be a $1 drop in 24 hours. Think stations were gouging yesterday?  Did it make you mad?  If so, logic dictates that you must now sing their praises for the generous gesture of dropping their prices. Or it could be that everyone got scared, [...]


Fire Fulmer! Redux

Here that?  That’s the muffled sound of cars running in closed garages all over East Tennessee.  There are big problems in the area.  Well, big problems unless you advertise on sports radio here and want your ad heard in between the “Fire Fulmer” calls.  It seems like I wrote this exact post exactly one year [...]


Best Post About Running…EVER!

I don’t know why, but the other day I thought about a post I read on a running message board a few years ago. When I read this post I immediately copied it and pasted it into an email to myself because: (1) It is one of the funniest and most insane things I’ve ever [...]


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Knoxville Central High School Shooting

I just talked to a friend with a son at Central who is ok, so I’m relieved about that. Apparently he was just walking in this morning when the shot when off and was able to get back outside immediately. I’ll be adding reaction as I read it. **UPDATE** Again, Twitter is the best place [...]


NOTA Knox County

Yesterday’s stellar voter turnout make me wonder… If every office had a “None Of The Above” choice, would things be different?  If voters had the option to choose NOTA would they be more likely to show up?  What if an election victory by NOTA meant that another election would be held?  My guess is the [...]