1. Tennessee Volunteers' Lane Kiffin's Thank-You Card List

    There are two things that you can do in life when you screw up in public. You can take your medicine, suck it up, face the consequences and hope that, in time, the effect of the events will pass and eventually be forgotten...

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  2. Which College Football Conference Is the Best? We Pit the SEC vs. the Big 12

    Would you care to step outside? As the college football season approaches, it’s time for fans to puff their chests out about their teams...

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  3. Tennessee Volunteers' Lane Kiffin Introduced To Other End of Bias

    Lane Kiffin has had a hand in the recruitment of some very high profile running backs during his coaching career. While at U.S.C he was instrumental in landing current N.F...

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  4. Tennessee Volunteers Know Healing Starts in One Place

    They say that winning cures everything. Let’s hope this is the case for the Tennessee Volunteer faithful who are still smarting from a year long sinus cold they would just as soon forget...

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  5. Can Tennessee Vols Bridge Gap In SEC East on ESPN's Dime?

    Lane Kiffin has impeccable timing. There has never been a better time to be the first-year coach of the Tennessee Volunteers...

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  6. Tennessee Volunteers' Lane Kiffin: Beware the SEC's Unknown

    It’s a philosophy as old as the tradition of breaking up with your girlfriend. You can find a new one that does something better than the last girlfriend did, but eventually and undoubtedly ...

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  7. Gatorade Aside, Vegas Is Drinking Florida's Kool-Aid, Not Tennessee's

    According to Phil Steele of Steele’s College Football Magazine, Las Vegas has the Florida Gators as a 26 point favorite over the Tennessee Volunteers for their Sept 19 matchup in Gainesville...

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  8. Tennessee Football's Psychological Warfare: The Aura of "Rocky Top"

    If you are a fan of a visiting team to Neyland Stadium, beware. Sensory overload is a common concern for those who are not accustomed to the intense passion that surrounds the mountains of East Tennessee like a low lying cloud...

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  9. The Calm Before the Orange

    A country music group named Blackhawk had a hit in 1994 entitled “I Sure Can Smell the Rain” in which the lead singer eerily foresees his girlfriend ending their relationship, even though she shows no signs of doing so...

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  10. Lane Kiffin's Name Prompts Reporters To Jump Gun

    Lane Kiffin must drive a station wagon bigger than the one my mom had back in the '80s. And that one was pretty big. There is no other way he has the room for everyone to hop on his media bandwagon the way reporters have in the past several months...

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  11. Tennessee Volunteers' Lane Kiffin:A Glimpse at The Future

    University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin doesn’t pull any punches. He also doesn’t connect on a lot of them either. But to listen to his philosophy behind being successful, you realize that he really may not need to...

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  12. The Biggest NFL Rivalry You Aren't Keeping Up With: Patriots-Dolphins

    More often than not, for a rivalry to capture the hearts and interests of those who don’t “have a dog in the hunt”, there should be a contrast in styles between the opposing teams...

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  13. My Hunger For “Lite” Sports Stories

    It’s not that I am trying to watch my weight. Anyone who knows me knows that I haven’t missed too many meals. It’s not that I am trying to get healthy...

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  14. 25th Anniversary of 1984: The Greatest Year In U.S. Sports History

    In 1984 when I was 13-years old, my shoe size finally caught up with my age. To say I was clumsy was an understatement. I could barely drive to the basket for a layup without tripping over my own feet...

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  15. Vin-sanity: Repeating The Same Thing And Expecting Different Results

    It’s long past time for us to be making excuses for Vince Young. This goes for everyone, including and not limited to his mother, his fans, and his apologists. Vince is a grown man, and this attempt to turn his NFL career into some kind of Dr...

    tre wells Written by tre wells about almost 4 years ago 284 reads 1 comments

  16. 100 Days Away: The First Fall Blockbuster

    Have you ever gone to see a movie and left the theatre more excited about a preview you saw than you were about the movie you just paid 10 bucks to see? I have to believe this is possibly the ...

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  17. Jr Nation Actually Succeeds Because He Doesn't Win

    Ask any racing fan who the most famous driver in Nascar is today and they will undoubtedly pause for a moment. Not because the question is difficult, but because the answer is so simple they are afraid you have asked them a trick question...

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  18. Remember These Titans: A Look Back at the Road that Galvanized a Team

    It was the summer of 1996, and thousands of homes in the Tennessee state capital were littered with yellow signs that read “TENNFL.” You could find the same acronym on bumper stickers, coffee mugs, and beer coozies everywhere...

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  19. Cleaning a Permanent Stain: A Fan's Struggle To Accept Daniel Hood

    He said he froze. Daniel Hood, 13 at the time, stood in his bedroom on Aug. 11, 2003, and watched as his 17-year-old friend, Robert Sanico, raped a 14-year-old girl...

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  20. Manny Being Manny Means Manny Being Suspended

    According to sources at ESPN, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has tested positive for “performance enhancing drugs and will be suspended for 50 games...

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  21. A Plea To The Jim Rome Radio Show: Please Start Talking Sports Again

    While writing this article I'm reminded of the phrase “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Only this time I was listening to the Jim Rome Show and some sports talk broke out...

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  22. When Does The Dream Die?

    I think I was about seven years old when I finally realized that my mom saying I “could do anything I wanted to, in life, if I put my mind to it” didn’t exactly include me being able to fly like Superman...

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  23. Florida Gators' Eyes Bigger Than Their Stomach

    They are saying and doing all the right things in Gainesville. After two championships in three years, the Florida Gators appear primed and ready for another run at the title. Tim Tebow is back, along with seven more starters on offense...

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  24. Vols QB Driving Lesson No. 1: Stay In Your “Lane"

    I think of how B.J. Coleman, the junior quarterback from Tennessee, has decided to transfer and I have to shake my head. It isn’t because he is leaving. Students transfer all the time...

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  25. AFC East Pre Draft Breakdown

    Heading into the 2009 NFL Draft this weekend, we take a look at each team in the AFC East and focus on what that team “can lean on” this year, what part of the team “will be ...

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