Jack Lail

With a March 8 deadline approaching and speculation that the Indianapolis Colts will "let" Peyton Manning become a free agent, the Internet is abuzz about what the QB's next call will be.

National Signing Day around the SEC.

Catch up on all the 2012 signing day developments for the University of Tennessee.

R.A. Dickey will be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame on Jan 18, 2012 in Knoxville, but before that he has a mountain to climb, literally. He plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in an effort to raise awareness ...

For Vol fans, it was one of the worse sunny days ever. For Kentucky fans, with an improbable football win, a hoops win and a UNC hoops lose, it was perhaps the best day ever. Nothing like sports in the ...

You would think any place that can pack in over 100,000 people in the stands for a college football game rain or shine would be football crazy.

With all the troubles at Southern Cal, what does ESPN ask head football coach Lane Kiffin about? Is his son named for Knoxville.

Former University of Tennessee quarterback and now North Carolina congressman Heath Shuler joined the list Wednesday of people who won't be the next UT athletic director.

Thursday was Tennessee's day at SEC Media Days. Here's some reports and opinions about the Volunteer football program as the 2011 season nears.

Sports writers, those learned pundits of relish and mustard from the press box, are still digesting the news that Mike Hamilton will leave the University of Tennessee's athletic director office on June 30 for good.

Reaction from Tennessee fans was swift to the news that Athletic Director Mike Hamilton has resigned.

The announcement of that Tennessee had hired 39-year-old Cuonzo Martin as its new men's basketball coach was a stunner that left many Tennessee fans saying "Who?" and then "What?" He wasn't on the list of the "knowledgeable" sports writers. Many ...

Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl has put a chain of mountains between himself and Knoxville as the Vols prepare for their first round NCAA tournament game in Charlotte, N.C., but not even Mount LeConte can dampen the growing rumblings about ...

Some of the reaction from the media and fans to the success of Tennessee on college football's National Signing Day.

Here's some reaction from Friday about the wild Tennessee vs North Carolina Music City Bowl.

Interest message boards, sports blogs and Twitter are hot with speculation that Tennessee defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox could be in Texas orange next year instead of Tennessee orange. Here's a look at the chatter. So far, the rumors are about ...

As Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl expected, he is getting the media spotlight on his recruiting violations and later lying to NCAA investigators rather than on his team playing in the National Invitational Tournament. Both the University of Tennessee ...

Here is some of the reaction on sports sites, blogs and social media platforms to Tennessee coach Derek Dooley's comparisons between his football team and World War II.

Some reaction to the "Dooley 13" play that made for the craziest ending to a football game so far this season.

The party's over in Hoover, Ala. The hoopla of another SEC Media Days has come and gone. Bring on the fall schedule.

Vanderbilt may never win the SEC Football Championship (sports writers believe the team will finish at the bottom of the SEC East Division), but new coach Robbie Caldwell is at the top of the charts with the media after his ...

It may feel close to the sweltering upper 90s today, but in an air-conditioned hotel in Alabama, it's all about fall and football and players and coaches, and, ... well, agents.

Tennessee coach Derek Dooley may have defined his image Friday night as the Tennessee football head coach.

Here is some reaction to the news that USC football Lane Kiffin, who coached Tennessee last year, is being paid a reported $4 million a year.

On the way to Omaha and the College Baseball World Series in 2001, Tennessee had to play as a visitor in the Super Regional in Kinston, N.C., against East Carolina

Even if Tennessee's Bruce Pearl was a circus ringmaster wearing an orange coat for P.T.Barnum, the game Friday night in St. Louis couldn't have been more exciting and stupendous.

For Tennessee, it's a bit like a presidential campaign: How you play Ohio will determine how successful you are.

The school in Athens beats Georgetown -- the one in Ohio. So much for the office pool. The NCAA basketball tournament always brings surprises and this is certainly one.

On the morning after, Tennessee's win over Kentucky looks as historical as it was exciting on Saturday.

Lane Kiffin may have left the building, but the stain he left is still being closely examined by sports writers across the country.

Here is a quick look this morning at the reaction to the surprise announcement that Lane Kiffin has left the University of Tennessee to return to the University of Southern California.

The buzzer at the end of Tennessee's 76-68 victory over Kansas on Sunday was heard across the country, in the sports bars in Kansas, in coaches' cluttered offices, around news media sports desks and in every hoops message forum on ...

The news that Urban Meyer was leaving coaching Florida, but wait, he isn't, it's a just a leave came just in time to be one of the bizarre sports stories of 2009. And with the Tiger Woods saga among others, ...

The summer basketball coach who told the New York Times that he had to ask a Tennessee hostess to quit brushing her breasts against him and his son is keeping it zipped now.

It may be a compliment that the University of Tennessee's football program made it through Sunday without another recruiting revelation. Nonetheless, the UT Coach Lane Kiffin is receiving a number of "compliments."

At least for a day, or two or maybe more, the Tennessee football program is the bikinied lady jumping out of the cake at the church supper. Heads are turning and tongues are wagging.

The arrest of three Tennessee football players on attempted armed robbery charges is proving to be a test of character -- for coach Lane Kiffin, not the players

WVLT VolunteerTV was the only media organization to have video of the early morning arrests of three University of Tennessee football players and a woman in connection with a robbery in the parking lot of the Pilot station on Cumberland ...

It's visor-vs-visor in Neyland Stadium tonight as the Lane Kiffin's Tennessee takes on Steve Spurrier's South Carolina.

First the Southeastern Conferences powerhouse coaches got tweaked by Lane Kiffin, then there was the principal's office visit with Commissioner Mike Slive and now the rookie Tennessee coach is pulling the tails of the zebras.

Hey, it wouldn't be Bama Week without a link roundup and here we have it, complete with controversy over orange jerseys, tapegate (thanks to the Old Ball Coach) and (what's new) Kiffin quotes.

The Monday morning skies are cloudy over Neyland. And so are the spirits of Vol fans.

Here's a survey of what people were writing about following the Tennessee wet, but a win victory over Ohio on Saturday night.

One sports Web site lists "alien abduction" among its five keys for a Volunteer win over the Gators this Saturday.

Amid the glare of the media hype, the cheers of the fans and the blare of the bands, it's hard to keep in mind football players are still sons and moms are still "watching their babies."

The New York Times is calling Saturday's UT-UCLA game the "Blabber Bowl" and one California writer say UCLA's players shouldn't be in awe of Neyland Stadium, they've yet to get annoyed by "200 renditions" of "Rocky Top."

Here's some react from around the Internet from Tennessee game on Saturday against Western Kentucky and a look forward at UCLA.

The Southeastern Conference created another Internet maelstrom as its ideas on Social Media began to filter out. It's no Tweeting, no texting, no Facebook, no YouTube stance toward its college athletic games is being widely criticized as strategically "fourth and ...

Here's some of the late July-early August buzz around first-year Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin.

The Old Ball Coach and the new ball coach took the stage Friday at SEC Media Days.