J.J. Stambaugh

KNOXVILLE -- Former University of Tennessee basketball center Major Wingate is expected to be released today after spending more than two months in jail for falling more than $22,500 behind in his child support payments, according to his wife.

A former University of Tennessee basketball standout has been jailed in Knox County for more than two months after falling more than $22,500 behind on child support payments.

SEVIERVILLE - Josh Briscoe, a former Pigeon Forge High School assistant coach and University of Tennessee football player, has been named in a three-count indictment accusing him of sex crimes involving a 15-year-old male student athlete, court records show.

Two police reports released Wednesday offer little new information on last week's bar brawl involving a number of University of Tennessee football players that left an off-duty police officer lying unconscious on the pavement along Cumberland Avenue.

KNOXVILLE - A report released this morning by Knoxville police says that University of Tennessee prized football recruit Da'Rick Rogers allegedly assaulted a man during last week's brawl at a Cumberland Avenue nightclub, but the victim declined to prosecute.

An off-duty Knoxville Police Department officer who was injured while trying to break up a Cumberland Avenue brawl involving a number of University of Tennessee football players had been working as an officer for less than two years, his supervisors ...

Knoxville police will continue their investigation this weekend into a bar brawl involving several University of Tennessee football players that sent two people to a hospital - including an off-duty officer - before any more charges are filed.

KNOXVILLE - A brawl that led to the arrests of two University of Tennessee football players began when "an unknown patron" of a Cumberland Avenue bar attacked freshman defensive tackle Montori Hughes "without provocation," Hughes' attorney said this afternoon.

KNOXVILLE - Four University of Tennessee basketball players were arrested on drug and weapons charges today after a Knoxville police officer stopped the car they were riding in for speeding on Alcoa Highway near Kingston Pike.

The futures of a trio of University of Tennessee football players were in the air Thursday as they faced charges that could send them to prison and Vols head coach Lane Kiffin said their status as players was on hold.

A former University of Tennessee football player arrested Thursday on a charge of soliciting a sexual favor from a 15-year-old student is innocent of any wrongdoing, his lawyer said Thursday.

A Tuesday night shooting at a South Knoxville apartment complex left one person in critical condition and police were trying to determine if the incident was connected to an earlier home invasion robbery that allegedly involved a former University of ...