With the extension by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee of a state of emergency due to COVID-19 cases on Monday until August 29, the state’s athletic association, the TSSAA, faces a tough call on when to start practice for the fall sports, including high school football. Bernard Childress, TSSAA Executive DIrector, said late Monday that a …
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The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing announced on Monday it has canceled their scheduled Champions weekend in Nashville, TN, out of concerns for the coronavirus pandemic. NASCAR had held the event in Music City for the first time in 2019, but said it will celebrate the three racing series champions in another fashion …
Middle Tennessee Christian School has announced B.J. Robertson will serve as interim head coach for football in the 2020 season. He will take the reins as former coach Fred Shambaugh resigned to take a position in Texas. “I’m excited for the opportunity to serve as the leader of our football program this fall. I have …
Former Siegel High School boys basketball coach Ben Dotson is in the ICU at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a serious crash. The accident happened last Friday (June 19) at 10:30am on I-840. There aren’t many details into the cause of the accident. Friends close to the former coach say he’s sedated awaiting surgery. That …
The Nashville Sounds, founded in the 1970s by legendary baseball manager Larry Schmittou , was a Triple A affiliate of the Texas Rangers over the last couple of years. Talk of eliminating minor league baseball and the onset of the coronavirus and subsequent delay in setting a MLB season in 2020 left the Sounds looking …
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ASSOCIATED PRESS – Dustin Johnson and Brendon Todd each shot a career-low 61 at the Travelers Championship on Saturday, leaving Todd with a two-stroke lead entering the final round Sunday of the PGA Tour’s visit to River Highlands in Connecticut. Todd is a former University of Georgia golfer who still lives in the Athens, GA, …
NCAA Division II member Morehouse College in Atlanta, a celebrated historically black college, announced that it had canceled fall sports for 2020, basically football and cross-country, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Morehouse becomes one of the first colleges to publicly announce their cancellation of the entire football season.
Clay Mills “Buck” Johnson, former Chattanooga Times sports editor, died Saturday at age 94. Johnson was a Navy veteran of World War II, a teacher and coach in the Hamilton County School system, and a popular sports editor and reporter who wrote a column entitled “The Buck Stops Here.” His hometown of Soddy-Daisy, TN, inducted …
