Anybody who’s followed @Vol_Hoops for the past 50 years gets it, the scope of what Rick Barnes has done with a program that has produced great players and great moments, but never this kind of elite consistency. Yes, there’s still the white whale, the Final Four. But there was a time when the mere idea of three straight Elite 8’s on Rocky Top would have been like saying the university was going to order the band to never play the song again.
LIV Golf Adelaide is now the biggest golf event Australia has ever seen.
This year’s event drew more than 115,000 fans across the week.
That’s the highest attendance of any golf event in the nation - and the largest crowd for a LIV Golf tournament anywhere in the world.
Way to go AK!
Redemption stories always resonate. From being one of the most talented players in the world, to disappearing from the game, to putting in the work to get yourself back into the winner’s circle - that takes something special.
We all fail at times. Not everyone has the courage to come back, face it, and rebuild. That takes real strength.
Congrats, AK
At 4:30am on a night in December 2020, I recorded the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from the U.S. Capitol. Today, he'll be replaced by Barbara Rose Johns, who led a protest of conditions in her all-Black school in Farmville that eventually helped end segregation in America.
People trying to turn this into Erin being ungrateful are purposely missing the point. I covered college football + basketball for 6 years, missed Christmas and Thanksgiving religiously between bowl games, holiday tournaments, etc. When I was briefly a sideline reporter, same thing. As well as when I was first getting TV reps at ESPN. I volunteered to work every holiday. Hell, me and my momma spent Thanksgiving in Bristol because I was filling in on First Take.
Erin was speaking to realities of the business and I didn’t take it as her asking anyone to feel bad for her. A lot of younger reporters say they want to do what she does, but are you willing to do what she did? No, she isn’t digging ditches, but the negativity these comments created was unwarranted.
Freshman year. The rain, both water and cup varieties, was coming down. Vol legend @mose_phillips capped it off with my favorite Vols play ever. Put some respeck on his name. #AboutTime#GBO
We want to take a moment to celebrate our very own Chelsi Davis. Two months ago, she was notified that she was a bone marrow match for a patient in the United States fighting Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Chelsi has been on the NMDP (formerly Be The Match) registry since 2017, when she signed up in memory of her grandmother, who passed away from leukemia in her 40s. Her grandmother wasn’t able to find a matching donor, so when Chelsi learned she could help someone else, she didn’t hesitate for a second.
Last week, she flew to Houston, where she donated stem cells from her blood over the course of two straight days. Those stem cells were immediately shipped to the patient’s hospital, where they’re now providing life-giving support in that patient’s fight against cancer.
Chelsi didn’t do any of this for praise or attention. In fact, the only reason she’s allowing us to share her story is the hope that it might encourage someone else to join the registry.
If you’re between the ages of 18–35 and want to sign up, you could be like Chelsi and help save someone’s life. Just follow the link below:
https://t.co/bq3NKSDsd5
Chelsi, you are truly a hero.
🗣️❗️Jürgen Klopp: "I haven't missed anything in my life because I never thought about it. For 25 years, I went to weddings twice; one was mine, the other was 2 months ago.
"In 25 years, I went to the cinema 4 times, all of them in the last 8 weeks.
"As a coach, I went to a lot of countries but didn't see any of them; I only saw the hotel, the stadium, and the training ground...."
Our next NIL deal is with the ONLY Vols to bring home a Natty last year. These Vols won the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge in Vegas & shocked the world as we all asked: "Wait, competitive Excel is a Thing?" It is & now we finally have an NIL deal our accountants approve of!