Michael Silence

Thanks, Mike DeCourcy. You just wrote Bruce Pearl's pre-game speech.

Why not hire the guy that is raiding your state, again, again and again? And Kiffin has wasted no time capitalizing on Meyer's exit: Coaching is also a business, though, and Kiffin only slightly side-stepped questions regarding possible plans to ...

One might infer a NYT columnist is getting a bit carried away with the comparisons: Whether Coach Lane Kiffin actually handed the hostesses a road map and chits for gasoline fill-ups is not the point.

Give University of Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl credit where due; these days, it's pretty tough to come up with a remark controversial enough to keep Lane Kiffin out of the newspaper.

Orlando Sentinel: Really, what's not to like other than the fact that he is an annoying little weasel who always seems to get under the skin of the Gator Nation and anyone else who crosses him?

In a practice at least 10 years old now, the team will again this year stay at a hotel on the Friday nights before home games, Tiffany Carpenter, UT sports information director, told me this morning. She said that's about ...

Yep, Knoxville, this is the kind of publicity you are getting now.

If they don't get tickets, there's always the satellite TV on the tour bus to watch the Vols play in the SEC championship game Saturday.