George Harding’s death earlier this week marked the end of an era. One of the founding fathers of the Kiwanis Little League, his death leaves Dr. Thomas Gallaher as one of the few surviving pioneers of modern youth sports in Lebanon. Fittingly, their names are on the league’s Baird Park complex. But my experiences, and [...]

While election commissions across the country were counting votes Tuesday, Mt. Juliet football coach Roger Perry would like to vote against the TSSAA playoff format. “I think we need to take it back to the way it was with five classifications,” Perry said. To catch you up, the TSSAA went from a five-classification playoff system [...]

If your favorite college football team resides in Tennessee, chances are, it’s not been a good year. The state’s No. 1 team as far as Q rating, the Tennessee Vols, is 2-6 and in the depths of despair not seen since at least the early years of the Johnny Majors era in 1977-78. Middle Tennessee [...]

Over the years we’ve gotten used to district or region games as being so important that it’s almost implied other contests aren’t. That’s because those games have always mattered when it came to postseason tournaments or playoffs. That still may be true in most TSSAA sports, but not football, where they’re all important now. Under [...]

It would be tempting to remember Lebanon’s 14-13 Week 0 loss to Wilson Central for the late missed field goal, which followed a missed extra point. But in the case of any close game, one can look at many other facets of the game which broke down. In this case, there were a couple of [...]

No amount of scheming by genius football coaches could outwit Mother Nature last Saturday night as lightning struck down jamboree after jamboree after jamboree. At Wilson Central, football was replaced by a game of survivor as team after team pulled out as the hours kept getting later and the lightning kept flashing. First-year Wildcat coach [...]