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NASHVILLE - OK, guys, it's your turn.Rivalry Week is off and running. It's not on your calendar, like Mardi Gras or Labor Day, but if ESPN says it's Rivalry Week, I'll hop on board.

How's this for an ending?Josh Bone, Quinn Cannington and Kenny Hall casually parade to the stripe and swish free throws.

The juniors have declared their departure for the NFL draft, and recruiting is all done. It's an appropriate time for an early peek at the next SEC football season.

Bernard King was definitely something special, from his first stroll on the court against Wisconsin-Milwaukee in December 1974 to the time the music stopped in Baton Rouge in the first round of the 1977 NCAA tournament, an overtime loss against ...

Some people opt in advance to donate their bodies to science.

Tennessee's 2010 football recruiting class has center stage for now. But after being analyzed and celebrated the last few days, it will be mostly forgotten over the course of the next season.

Derek Dooley's first public appearance in Nashville as the University of Tennessee's football coach Thursday was memorable as much for what he didn't say as what he did say.

Tennessee fans have endured so much coaching trauma in the last 15 months, they might be immune to panic. So maybe they couldn't work up a healthy scream at the latest coaching news.

Tennessee's 2010 recruiting class won't rank as its best. But it might be remembered as UT's most reassuring class.

Secrets were once all the rage in recruiting. Now, they're almost impossible to keep.

If defense is going to be Tennessee's winning edge down the SEC basketball stretch run, the Vols better strap it on this week.

The visits are complete.Coaches are off the road. Now the wait begins to National Signing Day on Wednesday.

Now that we're in the home stretch of college football recruiting, there's just one thing left to do:

KNOXVILLE -- When you've already lost two straight Southeastern Conference games five games into the conference race, you don't mess around with maybes. You go for the closest thing to a sure thing in your arsenal.

January came in with a bang for Tennessee basketball. Sunday, it went out with one too.