COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When he was a high school senior, running back Selvin Young told Texas coach Mack Brown that he was thinking about going to Ohio State. “Coach Brown came back five minutes later and said a snowstorm came in and it shut their whole school down,” Young said, smiling. “I said to…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton says he wants what is best for football fans hoping to travel to LSU later this month. LSU says it wants to maintain tradition. Chalk it up as another — much, much lesser — effect of Hurricane Katrina: a tiff over the kickoff time for the Sept.…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Boyd’s Axie Phillips, at right, keeps the ball away from a pair of Marshall County defenders during Thursday night’s game at Pistole Park. (Dale Stubblefield photo) After two tough losses on the road against Page and Cascade, the Lady Bronco soccer team was hoping a…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer is a strong believer in establishing the run, or pounding the rock, as he likes to call it. But the Volunteers’ running game looked more like mush than push in their opener against UAB. “If you’re going to win championships you better be able to play defense, you…

NEW YORK (AP) — Diehard NFL fans, grab your remote control and say goodbye to friends and family (well, maybe just your family): The new season is here, and your Sunday viewing options have increased. Remember those innocent days when watching the NFL meant getting comfortable on the couch with a six-pack and a bag…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist Hey, I didn’t see it coming either. I was like most people who used the faulty logic thinking if the Pioneers almost beat Lincoln County then they should mop up Sparta.As we know now, this logic was nowhere near right, as what we had Friday night was apples to oranges.…

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Houston Nutt found another way to compliment Jay Cutler. He compared the Vanderbilt quarterback to last year’s Heisman Trophy winner. “The best thing they have is a tremendous signal-caller (who) has experience, mobility, can run the option and throw the ball,” Nutt said this week. “It is probably one of the…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bill Cowher and Jeff Fisher have been head coaches a combined 25 seasons, virtually a lifetime in the what-have-you-done-for-me-this-minute world of the NFL. The stars of the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers — Keith Bulluck and Hines Ward, Steve McNair and Joey Porter, Drew Bennett and Alan Faneca — have been rivals…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County quarterback Josh Paz (7) is tripped up by a White County defender during Friday night’s game in Sparta. Paz and the Pioneers suffered their second straight loss, falling to the Warriors by a 34-17 final. SPARTA — Big plays and a big, big…

NASHVILLE (AP) — The list reads like a Who’s Who of NFL receivers: Hines Ward, Derrick Mason, Isaac Bruce, Marvin Harrison, Andre Johnson, Chad Johnson, Anquan Bolden and Larry Fitzgerald and then Randy Moss. That’s only the receivers the Tennessee Titans will face over the first half of the season with a secondary featuring two…