Sports and Outdoors

Tigert’s Tigers regain superb form Jason Tigert was entering his second season as head coach in Lewisburg and had the Tigers fired up after a 9-21 first season on the bench. Senior post player DeShaun Greer led a talented squad that included the sharpshooting 3-point crazy trio of Blaise Spencer, Ryan Nicholson, and Hunter Osborn. These guys could fill it up from anywhere on the court, plus they had great depth and experience with Cameron McCullough, Jamie Perryman, Michael Murphy, and Cody Duvall.

Forrest girls basketball coach Jeremy Jean resigned from his coaching position on Monday, citing personal reasons for his decision. “Being out of school for the coronavirus made me realize how much I miss out on,” Jean said. “I decided it was time for me to step down from coaching and be more present for my family.”

I was really excited about the 2007-2008 basketball season after experiencing some great hoops the prior year as both the Forrest Lady Rockets and Marshall County Tigerettes advanced to the state tournament with Lewisburg finishing as runner-ups. The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs had compiled a solid team with high hopes and were ready to make a run for district supremacy.

Just tell me it’s not true As we continue looking back into the past of the fall of 2007 in Marshall County sports history, it comes with a very heavy heart, broken actually. When I started this I knew at some point during the journey there was going to be a large amount of sadness, but I didn’t expect it to come this soon. I have never been the kind of sports writer that does things from a far, I like to be in the action, getting to know the coaches, the kids, and the parents. That comes with a price, most notably when one of the young athletes suddenly passes away. My first heartbreak was DeShaun Greer, who was a 2008 graduate of Marshall County High School, a great two-sport athlete for the Tigers, and an even better young man.

The beginning of the 2007-2008 prep school season was my second year covering sports in Marshall County and it turned out to be full of great memories that included a visit to Chapel Hill by one of my boyhood idols, a fantastic performance on the golf course by a future Milwaukee Brewer farmhand, an unbelievable band competition, and the first half of a return to glory by the Marshall County Tigerettes.

Executive Director Bernard Childress and the TSSAA state office staff are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on interscholastic athletics in Tennessee. Due to the ongoing social distancing efforts, the Board of Control's three-day meeting originally scheduled for June in Murfreesboro has been cancelled. The Board will take into consideration the items from the June agenda at the August meeting. The first day of the June meeting was to be set aside for a classification study session. Instead of a face-to-face meeting, each Board member will be sent the plans they requested to review with the goal of holding the classification study session in late July.

Leadership makes a difference, now and in the future Greg McCullough had just arrived inside MTSU's Murphy Center for the Thursday games at the Tennessee Girls’ State Basketball Championships. But as the Memphis Central principal and TSSAA Board of Control Vice President would soon come to find out, the sports world and society writ large had begun the painful process of shutting down social activities due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The pandemic was raging and closing in fast on the storied Glass House.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

I recently spoke on Facebook to a good friend of mine, someone I have much respect for and have shared some huge moments on the athletic fields from the time she was in seventh grade. Jasmine Runk is a 2018 Forrest graduate and sophomore at Columbia State Community College where she was just getting started competing in her second sport of the season as a Lady Charger softball player before embarking to Glenville State College in West Virginia in August to continue her academic career and the difficult endeavor of being a two-support athlete in soccer and softball.

My first year was a trip, time whirled by in 2006 and before I knew it, the prep sports faucet of live games had turned off. Things were still happening though as a prior May tour by college football coaches coming to Lewisburg to scout Marshall County’s Dont’a Hightower grew to fever pitch when Tennessee Vols coach Phillip Fulmer came and was followed by representatives from Auburn, and finally the big one when Alabama’s Nick Saban touched down in a private jet at Ellington Airport.

With the Governor’s announcement of school closure for the remainder of the school year, all remaining TSSAA events for 2019-20, including all spring sports and the postponed state basketball tournaments, are cancelled. This is an unprecedented time across our state and country, and we do not make this decision lightly. ...

The Marshall County Tigerettes capped off a whirlwind winter sports season as the Class 2A state runnerup in basketball in early March of 2007, sending me outside for my favorite time of the year. Baseball was all I wanted to know growing up. I was one of those kids that literally slept with my baseball glove, I played all the time at the Sunset Park, and making the Nottingham Little League’s “B” League Balgowan’s Bicycle Shop team at eight years old was one of the biggest accomplishments of my early life.

Boys First team Thomas Borders Wilson Central, Jr. Weight class: 113 pounds Why chosen: Borders won the Class AAA state title, pinning Blackman's Justin Bradford in 5:47. Trey Bates Beech, Jr. Weight class: 120 pounds Why chosen: Bates won the Class AAA state title, beating Cleveland's Jackson Bradford 6-1...

Alabama coach Nick Saban doesn't believe extending preseason camp for college football teams around the country is necessarily the best way to get them ready for the season. Saban said Thursday that he'd prefer some "teaching sessions on the field" over the summer to prepare for camp, even if it is in shorts and T-shirts. The coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of spring sports, including football practices, across the nation...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Ivy League has decided not to allow its spring-sport athletes who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus pandemic to have an additional year of eligibility as graduates, despite the NCAA granting that option earlier this week...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker found himself in need of an assist to help the state fight the coronavirus pandemic. He called on the New England Patriots. The team's private plane landed in Boston from China on Thursday evening carrying more than a million masks critical to health care providers fighting to control the spread of the virus.. ...

For the first half of the 2006-2007 high school prep season I began to learn my trade under fire, travelling everywhere to cover games. I was extremely motivated and was searching for games to cover, but by the end of the Christmas season I needed a break really bad.