Stories from Thursday, April 23, 2020

Despite circumstances, lessons from athletic participation endure Have you ever wondered what life would be like without sports? Now we know. And it isn’t fun. No NCAA basketball tournament. No traditional Major League Baseball Opening Days. No professional basketball or hockey playoffs. No Little League or youth soccer. The Summer Olympics have been delayed for at least a year. And the list of community cancellations and postponements is nearly endless...

DORRIS ARMSTRONG, Nashville Baseball Association Armstrong’s contributions to the Nashville high school sports landscape are many, but it’s in his role as a baseball supervisor of officials in which he continues to this day. A longtime veteran high school football coach, with head coaching stints at both McGavock and Whites Creek, Armstrong also owns 37 years as a high school basketball official and traces his roots officiating in the state to the late 1960s...

BOYS Class AAA Joe Anderson, Maryville, Sr. Will Pruitt, Mt. Juliet, Sr. JaCobi Wood, Cleveland, Sr. Kavion McClain, Whitehaven, Sr. Alden Applewhite, Germantown Houston, Jr. Brandon Miller, Cane Ridge, So. Reed Kemp, Franklin, Jr. JP Pegues, Hillsboro, Jr...

Boys Class A-AA 106 Caleb Uhorchuk, Signal Mountain, Fr. Cole Dorsett, Nolensville, Fr. Marcus Smith, Gibbs, Fr. Hunter Gentry, Pigeon Forge, So. 113 LeAndre Dabney Jr., Greeneville, So. Gregory Gomez, Martin Luther King, Fr. Andy Cable, Pigeon Forge, Fr...

I had about a two-day break between the end of Babe Ruth season and the beginning of another school year in August of 2007. It had been an awesome year and big things were on the horizon. Tiger football was back, Seth Lintz fired away on the mound and on the golf course, David Steely’s Tigerettes were on a mission, and Becky Cheatham’s Lady Rockets sent TCA packing. This week we will talk football.