Sports columnist for @Tennessean. Formerly: @courierjournal @247Sports @aldotcom @TimesFreePress & others. Tired of being clever. Everybody’s clever these days.
NEW: The #Preds haven’t truly surprised their fans much over the years, but hiring GM Chris MacFarland away from the Colorado Avalanche showed a difference with Bill Haslam. This was a move a middling team makes when it’s tired of being a middling team.
https://t.co/fRshMoUkMK
Nashville Predators are hiring Chris MacFarland as president of hockey operations, general manager.
Bill Haslam steals away Colorado's GM.
https://t.co/ooESQZGPKO
More: according to several sources, MacFarland met face-to-face last night with owner Bill Haslam and the goal is for the Predators to close this quickly. They know they will have to hand the keys to MacFarland and are prepared to do it. Stay tuned.
The Nashville Predators have been given permission to speak with Colorado Avalanche GM Chris MacFarland, according to sources. See where it goes from there.
The #VandyBoys have their first four portal entries, per D1Baseball and Baseball America.
Two bench players and two relievers.
I'm tracking all portal entries and additions here: https://t.co/bUTV3XyqT9
So that, officially, is a wrap on Vanderbilt baseball's season and streak of 19 consecutive NCAA regionals.
(See link below to my column on this from Hoover)
If Blades Brown’s golfing future was a stock, I’d be buying as much as I could. He only just turned 19, and he’s going to be very, very good on the PGA Tour for a very long time.
NEW: Talented, bold and fun to watch, @NashvilleSC is enjoying its best season ever, sitting atop all of @MLS entering the league’s two-month World Cup break.
There’s plenty of room on that bandwagon when the title push resumes.
https://t.co/gsacVt9Xgh
You can tell the PGA Tour is taking notice of Blades Brown's future marketability by how he's featured when given exemptions into fields on the big tour.
This afternoon, he's playing (on PGA Tour Live) with Wyndham Clark in the group behind Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka.
We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.
We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.