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One of the most pivotal moments in Russell Vollmer’s life came in 1956 at Fairview Junior High School in Memphis, when he was playing a football game as a ninth-grader….

In general, when a sports figure announces his or her retirement, the news is respectfully noted and then filed away. Sometimes, however, such an announcement marks the end of an…

The “Crossville Comet,” Curt Watson, literally blazed across the sky of “Big Orange Country” in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At 6’0″ and 215 pounds, he was a big…

David Scobey is not partial to just one sport. As player, coach, and official, it seems as though there is hardly a sport in which he did not have his…

John Seward’s brilliant basketball career at Duke University was outshined only by his remarkable record of community service to Johnson City and the state of Tennessee after his glorious college…