The one-time image of Nashville as a non-sports community has undergone a dramatic change in the past decade, thanks largely to the arrival of the Nashville Predators and Tennessee Titans.
Throw in the emergence of the Music City Bowl, a 30-plus year run by the Nashville Sounds and the landscape looks quite different than it did in the 1950s and '60s.
Just how significantly the city has changed as a sports destination was reinforced on Wednesday when the Southeastern Conference selected the Nashville Sports Council to host its Women's Basketball Tournaments in 2011 and 2012 and Men's Basketball Tournament in 2013.
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KCHS63 writes:
Now we know the reason why a school with a seemingly brilliant academic reputation like UNC actually makes no really significant contributions to society or culture in general: all it really produces are petty, small-minded individuals whose main purpose in life is to bring others down to their own low-life (Tar Heel I suppose one would say) level. A real champion ACTS LIKE ONE. All UConn fans talk about is Tennessee. All the Lady Vols talk about their own team. I'm sure there are Tar Heel fans who would be appalled at Tar Heel Rules for acting like such a rube, but we wouldn't really know because he represents them on this forum. So, all we know of them is through him. So, they must be low class jerks like he is. Sad example of no class from the Mother State, huh?
Volin68 writes:
nuff said
movol53 writes:
There is only one thing I hate worse than having dog poop on the heel of my shoe; it's having tar on the heel of my shoe!!! They are both of NO USE!!!! And they are Smelley;
no Smelley is the QB at South Carolina.
pdhuff#552644 writes:
Nashville is a nice large, albeit country town.
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