Steve Ahillen

What Lane Kiffin said or didn't say is becoming gasoline on an open Internet fire. No matter the facts, it just explodes.

As if the fireworks of Thursday between Tennessee head football coach Lane Kiffin and Florida needed another flashpoint, bloggers for a couple newspapers in the Gator State are buzzing about a practical joke Kiffin played on Blaze Thompson, the coach ...

A great night for Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer on Saturday also turned into a pretty good night for the Jason Foundation.

What better place than a basketball court to put a new spin on a 40-year-old community service program.

Tennessee basketball player Tyler Smith and six other UT athletes were performing in a different arena Thursday morning. Gathered in the book store in the basement at University Center, the athletes took turns reading to about 40 preschool children from ...

Former Tennessee softball pitcher Monica Abbott said she was flying back from the Beijing Olympics when she decided it was payback time.

BEIJING — Athletes understand, and that’s what makes it so hard. Monica Abbott pitched her heart out in these Olympics. She was simply the best pitcher here. Don’t take my word for it.

BEIJING — Now it’s on to graduate school for Jangy Addy. He finished his Olympic education Friday night, ending up 20th in the decathlon against the world’s best.

BEIJING — The foot was the only thing different. Former University of Tennessee All-American Tom Pappas had to bow out of his second straight Olympics on Thursday, this time just two events into the first day of the decathlon. Just ...

BEIJING — Leigh Smith was hoping for a little better first Olympic experience, but plans to do better the second time around. “Naw, it definitely is not as far as I wanted or planned,” said the former University of Tennessee ...

BEIJING - After watching Monica Abbott give up two runs to her former team in a 4-2 victory over Tennessee on April 12, United States team coach Mike Candrea said his one concern with Abbott was her maturity.

BEIJING — Sylvia Fowles and the U.S. women’s basketball team were too big for South Korea to handle.

BEIJING – Anthony Famiglietti has had a love-hate relationship with the steeplechase for years. Monday, it hated him. Famiglietti, a two-time Olympian who two days ago qualified for his first Olympic final, said he never quite had it Monday. He ...

BEJING - Former Tennessee swimmer Christine Magnuson didn't have an Olympic dream as a child. She says she never dared dream she would be in the Olympics. If she was reluctant as a child, she is definitely hooked now, with ...

BEIJING - Another game, another rout. Tina Thompson scored 10 of her 15 points during a 21-0 run in the second quarter and the U.S. women's basketball team beat New Zealand 96-60 on Sunday night. Former University of Tennessee guard ...

BEIJING — Christine Magnuson is silver again. The former University of Tennessee swimmer helped the United States finished second in 4x100-meter medley relay Sunday.

BEIJING — The difference between victory and defeat in the Olympic Games is so cruelly thin. Two Knoxville runners: one left shaking her head over half a second, another jumping with delight over a 15 hundredths of one.

BEIJING — Anthony Famiglietti advanced to the finals in the Olympic steeplechase with no help from the Jumbotron on Saturday at the Bird’s Nest. The former University of Tennessee runner, who did not advance at Athens four years ago, went ...

BEIJING — Kara Lawson is getting used to this. The guard has been gone a long time from Tennessee, but she is just a rookie on the United States women’s basketball team at the Summer Olympics.

BEIJING — A rain delay is usually a pitcher’s worst nightmare; Thursday, it was Monica Abbott’s best friend. As a result of a bumpy first inning, the U.S. softball team trails Canada 1-0 through three innings of a pool play ...

Chris Colwill and Jevon Tarantino were third going to the final round. But Tarantino botched his entry, receiving marks of 4.0 and 5.0 for execution, and the U.S. slipped to fourth at 410.73.

BEIJING - Former Tennessee javelin thrower Leigh Smith thinks the Olympics will be the perfect time to come out of his shell.

BEIJING — Tamika Catchings knows her job and even in a 108-63 blowout she keeps at it. With victory over China well in hand even in the first quarter, the former Tennessee All-American was diving to the floor and scrambling ...

BEIJING - Former University of Tennessee swimmer Christine Magnuson is almost as much in awe of herself as you are. What a year! NCAA champion. Olympic Trials champion. Olympic silver medalist. She didn't know she had it in her.

Here's a scary thought for the rest of the women's softball world: Monica Abbott has gotten better.

BEIJING — Two United States team rookies came away with different reviews of their Olympic Games baptism on Saturday night.

As I stand on top of the Great Wall of China in the Mutianyu section on a misty Friday and contemplate the 4,000 miles it is said to have once covered, it gets me to thinking about numbers at the ...

BEIJING - Rhian Wilkinson and her Canadian soccer teammates are playing in their own mini-Olympics and doing quite well at it.

BEIJING — Kara Lawson knew who to call when she made the Olympic team. “One of the first persons I called was Tamika Catchings having played two years with her at Tennessee,” she said Thursday at a press conference of ...

Monica Abbott sees the Olympics as a big dream ... one of which she can hardly wait to be a part. "I figure on having what they call an Olympic high," she said as she prepared to leave with the ...

It’s Tennessee vs. Florida today in Orlando … well, not exactly.