When Lane Kiffin arrived as the University of Tennessee's football coach, he had a list of priorities.

Among other things, he wanted to energize the Vols fan base, get under the collective skin of rival coaches and recruit UT's next great quarterback — not necessarily in that order.
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When Kevin O'Neill was hired as the University of Tennessee basketball coach in March 1994, he walked into his new office one day to find a player stealing something off his desk.
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What do North Texas State, Nebraska, Kansas State, Baylor, Dartmouth, VMI, Southern Cal, Purdue, Pittsburgh, and Colorado have in common? The Vols haven't beaten any of these schools. Never.
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The 2008-09 school year will not be celebrated in poetry or song around the University of Tennessee. No new street signs are on order. It was the year that saw a football coaching legend get a pink slip, two basketball teams excused early from the NCAA tournament and a baseball program remain in SEC oblivion. Certainly, there were highlights, none more so than the Lady Vols national title in indoor track and field. Full story »

When Kevin O’Neill was hired as University of Tennessee basketball coach in March 1994, he walked into his new office one day to find a player stealing something off his desk. That Vol soon became an ex-Vol. “When you get a new job, there’s usually a little cleaning up to do,” O’Neill says. This time, O’Neill needs a shovel, not a broom. Full story »

Tyler Smith was in the Memphis airport last week, waiting for a connecting flight to Fort Worth, Tex., to visit his mother.
"All these people started taking pictures of me," said the University of Tennessee senior basketball player. "They thought I was famous, but they didn't know my name." Full story »

Recruits hear it. Programs sell it. Fans love it.

And coaches understandably hope to avoid it at all costs.
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You have to look hard to find a Tennessee presence in the preseason football magazines this summer.
Strong safety Eric Berry is a consensus All-American. Linebacker Rico McCoy, center Josh McNeil, defensive tackle Dan Williams and wide receiver Gerald Jones have received mention as All-SEC candidates. But no publication has the Vols higher than third in the SEC East.
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When Tennessee fans consider their favorite players over the years, certain names come up instinctively and intuitively.
One of them is Condredge Holloway. Full story »

The sad news hit the wires Friday afternoon. Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf had surrendered to authorities in Texas over burglary and drug-related charges. Full story »

You could have had a Tennessee-Florida all-star game at UT’s indoor practice facility Friday. You had current Vols running sprints and doing agility drills shortly after lunch. Later in the afternoon, high school football players were scheduled to hit the field for another UT summer camp. And the campers wouldn’t all come from just down the street. In fact, 58 of them were expected to come from Florida, including 13 from Pahokee High School. Full story »

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy certainly put the subject up for debate when he accepted a plea bargain between Browns wide receiver Donté Stallworth and the family of the deceased Mario Reyes. Full story »

First-year Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin has gone more than a week without committing an NCAA secondary violation. Depending on your point of view, that's cause for concern or remorse. You know the history. Kiffin committed a secondary violation when he dropped the name of recruit Bryce Brown on the Sports Page radio show. Then, he signed Brown, rated as the No. 1 high school running back in the country.
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Less than three months from the start of the college football season, the three first-year SEC head coaches have paced, prowled and propelled themselves and their programs into perplexing positions of uncertainty. Full story »

Renaldo Woolridge might not have been especially mature as a freshman college basketball player last winter. He would be the first to tell you that.
He was and is, however, mature enough to see the big picture. Full story »