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Cops: Vols Fan Made Teen Son Drink Until He Passed Out
A Tennessee man was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a child and aggravated child abuse and neglect for allegedly making his 15-year-old son play a drinking game with him as they watched the Volunteers' game against Oklahoma Saturday....
If You Play Football At Tennessee, You'll Hang Out With Beyoncé, Maybe
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Clemson have heavily recruited defensive lineman prospect Shy Tuttle, but the Volunteers tried to edge out the competition with a fake magazine cover featuring Beyoncé and Tuttle hanging out. Oldest trick in the book....
Cuonzo Martin Leaves Tennessee, And His Players Don't Sound Surprised
Cuonzo Martin took the Cal job today, after an up-and-down three years with Tennessee that saw his job security deteriorate even as he led the Volunteers to a Sweet 16 appearance. His players seem sorry to see him go, but don't sound shocked that he left....
Michigan Flop Ruins An Otherwise Great Game
Last night against Michigan, Tennessee came all the way back from a 15-point deficit with 10 minutes left to be in a position to get jobbed in the final seconds. With 10 seconds left in the game, Tennessee trailed Michigan by only one, 72-71. That's when the Volunteers put the ball in Jarnell Stokes...
Is A No. 11 Seed Actually Among The Best Teams In The Country?
One of the quirks of college basketball is that we get to see only a brief audition of each team before the NCAA tournament begins. By the time the NBA playoffs start, there are 82 games' worth of data on each team, and each of those consists of 48 minutes. At the college level, teams entering the t...
SEC Tournament Punctuated By Overenthusiastic Referee's Technical Foul
Today's Tennessee-Florida SEC tournament semifinal from Atlanta has featured plenty of #refshow, with technical fouls, flagrant fouls, and the always-awful "official replay." Referee Pat Adams took things to the next degree, though, when he emphatically T'd up Volunteer Jeronne Maymon after a high-l...
The Evolution Of A Flop, In Four Angles
At first blush, Jerrone Maymon looked to have knocked out Andrew Harrison with a wild elbow to the face. But with each successive replay here you can see that it was a flop and an absolutely ridiculous one at that....
Peyton Manning's Naked Bootleg Is Football's Most Unstoppable Weapon
The most impressive touchdown of a game filled with them came at the end of the first half, as Peyton Manning bluffed a handoff to Knowshon Moreno, rolled to his left, and shuffled untouched into the end zone. It was a rare sighting of the Peyton Manning naked bootleg, the secret weapon of our gener...
Tennessee Ties Game On Blocked Punt, UGA Immediately takes Lead Back
Man, this was really exciting there for a second. Tennessee had tied the sixth-ranked Bulldogs and Knoxville was fired up heading into the fourth quarter....
Tennessee-Florida: The Full First Half Lowlight Reel
Today's premier SEC bout in Gainesville between the Volunteers and Gators has been terrible for the game of football. Fortunately, it's been great for those who enjoy football follies....
Arian Foster Says He Took Money At Tennessee
Texans running back Arian Foster admits (maybe "admits" isn't the right word, because public opinion is swinging away from shaming the athletes, toward shaming the system that facilitates and encourages it) that he took money while he was a student at UT. ...
Sarcastic Oregon Player On SEC: "They're Super Big And Scary"
Does this count as bulletin board material?...
Report: NFL Agents Funneled Money To College Players
A big Yahoo report dropped today, presumably to ride/torpedo the momentum of SI's flawed Oklahoma State exposé. It claims that NFL agents and financial advisers funneled tens of thousands of dollars to five college players, including Alabama tackle D.J. Fluker....
WKU Commits Five Turnovers In Six Plays
Western Kentucky came into Neyland Stadium today on a roll; they already beat one SEC team (Kentucky) last week, and took an early lead against the Volunteers. Then things went terribly, terribly wrong....
Fired UT Employee May Have Had Inappropriate Relationship With Athlete
The University of Tennessee has fired its director of the office of student judicial affairs, Jenny Wright, after she refused to cooperate with an investigation into whether or not she was involved in an inappropriate relationship with a student-athlete....
Tennessee QB Tyler Bray Declares Early For Draft, Goes Undrafted
Bray did sign with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent, though. This draft was light on quarterbacks, maybe light on everything but the big guys, and that figured to be a good thing for Tennessee's junior quarterback. As it turned out, a weak quarterback class meant that quarterbacks went ignored....
NFL Draft Prospects' Wonderlic Scores Leaked; No One Gives A Shit
Just yesterday, we realized that the NFL Draft is almost upon us, and not a single Wonderlic score had leaked out. We emailed league PR guy Brian McCarthy to ask if there had been any special emphasis on confidentiality this year. "No," he wrote back, "we didn’t do anything differently." Today, thre...
One Of Our Favorite Sports Columnists, Sally Jenkins, Is Here To Take Your Questions
Sally Jenkins is an award-winning sportswriter for the Washington Post, but don't hold that against her. She's one of the sharpest columnists in the country. She's also written a bunch of books, including It's Not About The Bike, the No. 1 New York Times bestseller she co-authored with Lance Armstro...