Wrestling campA wrestling camp will be held by coaches David Holcomb and Lee Ramsey June 20-23, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. each day, at Siegel High School in Murfreesboro.Cost for the camp is $40 if participants register before June 16, and $50 after June 16. Registration fee includes a camp T-shirt.Anyone interested in participating should contact Holcomb…

By TIM DAHLBERG / AP Sports Columnist WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman pressed up against the doorway in a subway car crammed with commuters and baseball fans didn’t look very happy. “This team,” she said, “is killing my commute.” All around her on this recent night heading out of the downtown Metro Center station were…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The end came for Mike Tyson while he was sitting on a stool. The fighter who was once the baddest man on the planet wanted no more. Looking more like a pathetic, aging fighter than the man who once terrorized the heavyweight division, Tyson’s career more than likely ended Saturday night when…

MEMPHIS (AP) — A former high school football coach will not testify when a sentencing hearing resumes Monday for a businessman convicted of buying a top football recruit for Alabama, defense attorneys said. Logan Young’s defense opted Friday against subpoenaing former Trezevant High coach Lynn Lang to testify at Young’s sentencing hearing, The Commercial Appeal…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — Bernadette Foster knows what to expect after her son plays in his first game at Tennessee. Blunt criticism or overheated praise will be waiting for her on the Internet, and then she may think twice about continuing her new hobby. Foster is one of many parents and relatives of Tennessee football players…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Slow down. Don’t string too many sentences together. Avoid saying “um” and “you know.” The advice seems simple enough, but imagine trying to remember with a camera and microphone in your face? One wrong comment caught on tape can ruin a career thanks to today’s wired world. “We live in a world…

ATLANTA (AP) — Tennessee coach Rod Delmonico kept telling Michael Rivera his time to hit a home run was coming. Delmonico’s seemingly unshakable confidence in his team aside, the Volunteers’ second baseman seemed slow to believe it, even as his game-changing three-run homer headed out of Russ Chandler Stadium Saturday. “I couldn’t even hit it…

MT. JULIET — The Tennessee Sports Writers Association voted Friday to open a hall of fame commemorating the state’s best writers and sports information officials.The inaugural class will include up to 16 members as voted upon by TSWA members and will be unveiled by July 2006 with each subsequent class featuring a maximum of three…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard VFW swept a twin bill over Cherokee Manufacturing in recent action in the 15-16 year-old Babe Ruth league.Taking on Cherokee in back-to-back games on May 31, VFW downed their foes 8-5 in the opening game, and took a 10-5 win in the nightcap at Edley…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Evangelist Yo Yo Collins is scheduled to be at McMinnville’s First Baptist Church and Irving College Baptist Church next Sunday. Singer and evangelist Yo Yo Collins, along with wife Sandi, will be performing and witnessing at First Baptist Church in McMinnville next Sunday, June…