Morgan

GBO

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Morgan @morgancwoods]

So glad we were there for this. We love you, Dolly 🧡😢

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

We will never forget Dolly ❤️

[NFL @NFL]

JAUAN JENNINGS TD PASS TO CMC

SFvsPHI on FOX/FOX One
Stream on @NFLPlus

[More Important Issues @More_Issues]

Legendary run by Tony Vitello at Tennessee

-52 Players Drafted
-10 First Round Picks
-341 Wins
-2 SEC Regular Season Titles
-2 SEC Tournament Titles
-5 Regional Championships
-3 College World Series Births
-1 National Championship

Thank you, Tony🙏

[StillAVol🍊 @clg419]

"Send me the crazy one"

[Tennessee Basketball @Vol_Hoops]

oh by the way

Rick Barnes is now the winningest active DI men's basketball coach

[GILES @gilesbraves]

Tennessee now holds the record for the fastest pitches in college baseball AND softball history.

Ben Joyce: 105.5 MPH
Karlyn Pickens: 78.2 MPH

🔥🔥🔥 @Vol_Baseball @Vol_Softball

[Emilie Rae Cochrane @EmCochranetv]

"This Final Four, National Championship run, isn't for us, it's for him."

Jahmai Mashack on winning in the postseason for HC Rick Barnes. #Vols

[Tennessee Basketball @Vol_Hoops]

• 60-5 home record
• 25+ wins every season
• ranked every week of their careers

these two have done pretty well for themselves

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

Josh’s reaction to his MVP video is everything. 🥹

#NFLHonors | #BillsMafia

[Vol Report @AllVolReport]

THE LADY VOLS TAKE DOWN UCONN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2007

[Lady Vols Basketball @LadyVol_Hoops]

🍼🧡

[No Context Vols @ZeroContextVols]

She’s the one

[Rocky Top Now @rockytopnow]

“In 29 years, this is by far the most visiting fans I’ve seen at a College GameDay.”

- Kirk Herbstreit

[Barstool Rocky Top @BarstoolTenn]

Your Tennessee Volunteers are:

-In the first ever 12-Team College Football Playoff

-#1 Ranked in Men’s Basketball

-Undefeated in Women’s Basketball

-Reigning National Champs in Baseball

Show this post to a Vol in 2018 and they’d fall to their knees… Thank you Danny & Donde

[Vol Report @AllVolReport]

BREAKING: Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson has been named SEC Player of the Year.

[CMA Country Music @CountryMusic]

Drumroll please 🥁 The #CMAawards Entertainer of the Year is ... @MorganWallen! Join us in congratulating Morgan on this very special honor!

[Justin Credible @GravySauceCream]

me liking every tweet about Bama losing

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Will Brooks played high school football 65 miles from the University of Alabama campus.

However, the school didn't offer him a scholarship, so he walked on at Tennessee.

Now, he intercepts Jalen Milroe to hand Alabama its second loss this season.

Crazy.

[NBAYOUNGVOL 🍊🧡 @VOLBOYx]

This morning: Tonight: