John Adams

Tennessee weathered intermittent rain and overcame a four-run deficit to beat Texas A&M on Saturday afternoon at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The Beech Buccaneers are about to become the third most popular football team in Tennessee. And that has nothing to do with the program’s 2012 state championship.

Tennessee has one of the best lineups in college softball, but that doesn’t make co-head coach Ralph Weekly feel any better about the loss of junior first baseman Melissa Davin as his team opens play against Longwood in the Knoxville ...

Colleague Mike Strange has no trouble remembering Tennessee’s most popular spring football game.

Good thing Will Muschamp got the head-coaching job at Florida a couple of years ago. He might have grown old waiting for Mack Brown to retire at Texas.

Butch Jones’ work day was expected to run late Tuesday evening. But it didn’t include football.

Tennessee coach Butch Jones knows how to capitalize on an opportunity. So when quarterback Nathan Peterman provided him with one Saturday afternoon, hardly a second was wasted.

Daniel Hood would have faced a tough decision if Tennessee hadn’t made a coaching change after last season.

Tennessee isn’t sure who its next starting quarterback will be. But it knows who he won’t be.

The Tennessee-Connecticut women’s basketball rivalry will resume tonight in New Orleans with a slight variation. Tennessee won’t be there.

The play-by-play commentary overshadowed the play at Tennessee’s spring football scrimmage Saturday afternoon at Neyland Stadium.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tennessee spent most of its season exceeding expectations.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tennessee’s comeback was admirable. But it wasn’t memorable.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tennessee’s comeback was admirable. But it wasn’t memorable.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Louisville is still a victory short of the Final Four. But it didn’t let that get in the way of its celebration.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tennessee began the NCAA women’s basketball tournament with Baylor looming ominously at the end of the Oklahoma City regional.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Dean Lockwood could have been speaking for the entire Baylor team Sunday evening.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tennessee’s advance to the Elite Eight was distinguished by a changing of the guards Sunday afternoon at Chesapeake Energy Arena.

OKLAHOMA CITY — College basketball is clearly distinguished by the regular season and postseason.

Tennessee won one-on-one Monday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Kamiko Williams’ last home game won’t have all the familiarity of home. The NCAA won’t allow it.

The last thing Tennessee could have anticipated was a Baylor preview in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.

Don’t call Taber Spani a team player. The description shortchanges her.

A slender woman in an orange jacket excused herself as she moved in between two onlookers at Tennessee’s pro day early Wednesday afternoon.

Holly Warlick had no complaints when the NCAA women’s basketball tournament field was announced Monday night.

There’s nothing cryptic about how to succeed in an NCAA basketball tournament. You survive and advance, we are told with numbing repetition.

A television interview with SEC commissioner Mike Slive quickly turned to football Friday night between SEC tournament basketball games.

NASHVILLE — Cuonzo Martin declared his Tennessee team NCAA tournament fit after it knocked off Missouri in the last game of the regular season a week ago.

NASHVILLE — Tennessee doesn’t begrudge Alabama its extra bye before today’s SEC tournament quarterfinal match-up.

NASHVILLE — Maybe this will be the tournament nobody wins.

DULUTH, Ga. — Texas A&M coach Gary Blair remembers the futility of trying to recruit Tennessee’s Taber Spani.

DULUTH, Ga. — Tennessee planned on celebrating its quarterfinal victory in the SEC women’s basketball tournament with an ice bath Friday afternoon.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Senior Night turned into Senior Day. And the Tennessee women’s basketball team was barely recognizable in the transition.

Gary Blair coached at Arkansas for 10 years, then moved on to Texas A&M where he won a national championship two years ago.

Jarnell Stokes sat, and Tennessee soared.

You can’t fully appreciate Jay Graham’s departure from Tennessee without recalling his arrival.

Tennessee was ahead of schedule Thursday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.

“Go West” should be one of the recruiting slogans for Tennessee football. And I’m not referring to West Tennessee.

Rob Preston wasn’t trying to inflame the passions of football fans when he sought a speaker for the annual Athens Chamber of Commerce dinner this summer. He just wanted a well known speaker who would draw a crowd.

Tennessee appeared set up for a follow-up.

A Tennessee fan was only a few yards past an exit portal when he turned to take another peek at the Thompson-Boling Arena scoreboard Saturday afternoon.

NASHVILLE — Cuonzo Martin wiped the top of his head with a towel and took a swig of bottled water with 3:40 to play in the first half at Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym on Wednesday night.

The numbers sometimes don't make sense with this Tennessee women's basketball team.

Former Tennessee coach Derek Dooley referred to his first season as "Year Zero." Although his assessment didn't catch on with the general populace, it had merit. Dooley wasn't hired until January, and the program was reeling from the sudden departure ...

Alabama makes it look so easy.

A 31-day, whirlwind recruiting race left Tennessee's new football coaching staff looking forward to a longer race. And they won't have to wait for the start.

Tennessee's strongest presence on college football's National Signing Day came from a former coach, rather than a future player.

Pratt Pavilion resembled an auxiliary training room Tuesday as Tennessee began preparation for its women's basketball game at LSU.

Alabama is the program everyone else is chasing in college football. But Ole Miss would be a more appropriate role model for Tennessee.

Holly Warlick made it clear when she was hired as the head coach of the Tennessee women's basketball team that no upheaval would be forthcoming.