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A College Football Scholarship Can Finance Your Marijuana Business, Too
Preston Bailey's 2011 season as an offensive lineman at Middle Tennessee State ended after seven games because of an injury. The school granted him a medical scholarship, but Bailey is accused of doing more with it than simply pursuing his Liberal Studies degree. Police say they found items like ma...

Randy Moss Announces He'd Like To Play Football Again In Saddest Videoconference Ever
Football's chattering classes today have been busy dissecting Randy Moss's decision to (try to) return to the NFL at age 35. Moss has been away from the game for a year and a half, and all of the questions about him will certainly get answered in due time. The more pressing matter, though, might be...

Tennessee State Ends Murray State's Undefeated Season By Flopping Its Way To Victory
A technical foul called on Murray State's Ed Daniel—one that resulted from a clear flop that the referees had ample time to view on replay—helped Tennessee State upset Murray State and end the Racers' dream of an undefeated season....

Recruit Says Bruce Pearl Sent A Beautiful Girl To Tell Him To Attend Tennessee
Small forward Jordan Adams is one of the many prospects out of Oak Hill Academy, and ESPN has him ranked as the 50th best recruit in the nation. He's going to UCLA in the fall, but they weren't the only ones who were interested: Bruce Pearl, while still at Tennessee, apparently called in the service...

Meet Tennessee's Emergency Kicker, Who Was Sitting On A Frat Couch, Possibly Drunk, An Hour Before Kicking In The Game
SEC football's a big thing, but the Tennessee Volunteers really aren't. (Opportunity is nowhere, and all of that.) And the Vols especially aren't a big thing when they're playing out-of-conference, like they were last Saturday, against the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders. Tennessee won, but only...

This Evening: Toddler Derek Dooley, Who Has Just As Many SEC Victories This Season As The Real Derek Dooley
Your p.m. roundup for Oct. 26, the day those old recordings totally creeped us out. Photo of Toddler Derek Dooley, which recalls the legend that was Baby Mangino, via Outkick the Coverage. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Kevin Walter Called Cortland Finnegan A Prick
Texans WR Kevin Walter went on The Big Show on 790 in Houston this morning to talk Sunday's battle for the heart of the AFC South. You can listen to the whole interview over there, but we've pulled out the bulletin board material, as the kids like to say. Walter, who will probably be covered by Fi...

Peyton Manning's So Cute Verne Lundquist And Gary Danielson Could Just Eat Him Right Up (Updated With Video)
Nope, 26 references from the booth during a Sunday Night Football game in which he didn't play was not enough to sate the football-broadcasting world's need for Peyton Manning in their lives....

Your College Football Afternoon Games Open Thread
Good batch of 3:30 p.m. games: No. 1 LSU at Tennessee (CBS); No. 6 Oklahoma State at No. 22 Texas (ESPN); No. 12 Georgia Tech at Virginia (ESPNU); and Ohio State at No. 16 Illinois (ABC)....

Vince Young Says There's A Fake Vince Young In The D.C. Area (Updated)
"'I heard that he has been taking money, taking pictures with little kids at hospitals,' Young said on Monday. 'It's been real sick.'" Sounds a little like what Titans fans were saying once upon a time about the real Vince Young, doesn't it? [NBC Washington]...

Why Yes, Jaguars Fans Tailgated With A Skeleton In A Bloody And Torn Steve McNair Jersey
"The picture, which arrives via email from a reputable source, included these details: "A very close friend who lives in Jacksonville that is a big Jaguars fan took the photo Sunday before the game. He asked me who [No. 9] belonged to. When I replied he apologized for the classless Jag fans.'" Then...

Banished From The NCAA, Bruce Pearl Will Now Sell You Groceries
With good reason, no one's letting former Tennessee Vols coach Bruce Pearl anywhere near a basketball court anytime soon. (He's been confined to barbecues instead.) He had a bad season, and he broke NCAA rules, so Tennessee fired him. Then Pearl received a three-year banishment from college basketba...

Bruce Pearl Hosts BBQ To Address NCAA Sanctions For BBQ He Once Hosted
On Wednesday, the NCAA announced that it would penalize former Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl with a three-year show-cause penalty. The decision, which effectively shuts him out of a college coaching job for three years, is a result of infractions Pearl committed during his tenure at U...

Sally Jenkins's Pat Summitt Piece Will Break Your Heart
Jenkins, the longtime Washington Post writer, is one of Summitt's best friends. She discloses that in her piece, which you should read now....

Pat Summitt Diagnosed With Dementia, Will Still Coach This Season (Updated With Summitt's Taped Statement)
Sad news out of Knoxville: CBS's Gregg Doyel reports that Pat Summitt—head coach of Tennessee's women's basketball team and the most successful coach in NCAA history—has been diagnosed with dementia. She's just 59 years old. ...

The New Slogan For Tennessee's Football Program: "Opportunity Is Nowhere"
Derek Dooley over-kerns. Typical for Ten ness ee....

This Evening: Thanks To ESPN, Matt Hasselbeck's Hair Has Grown Back
Your p.m. roundup for Aug. 19, the day your oxygen tank totally took away from our enjoyment of classical music. H/T to Pony_Express for the screen grab. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Chris Johnson's Holdout Is Good News For Titans Fans; Eagles Fans Should Probably Worry About DeSean Jackson
Happy August 9th! It's a day you should have circled on your football calendar, because today's the day that players have to report to camp in order to accrue a year of service. As dictated by the new CBA, any players still holding out for reworked contracts will have to wait an extra year for their...

Deion Sanders May Have Found A New Football-Playing Host Upon Which He Can Attach
Your morning roundup for April 29, the day "special cookies" in zip-lock freezer bags got real....

Steven Pearl Laughs On Twitter At Dad's UT Replacement
You didn't really expect Bruce Pearl and kin to exit Knoxville quietly, with great dignity, especially when Tennessee didn't wait a full week before hiring a replacement, Cuonzo Martin, did you?...