By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Second baseman Joseph Webb of the Hot Wheels White Sox gives chase after catching Lake Hillis of the Superior Walls Cardinals in a rundown between first and second during junior league action this week. Hillis got out of the predicament, and wound up safe at second…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Last year?s top-finishing overall female, Nashville?s Shelby Sheffield, heads toward the end of the cycling portion of the 2005 McMinnville City Triathlon. This year?s triathlon is scheduled for Saturday at the Civic Center. This Saturday, the Fourth Annual McMinnville City Triathlon will kick off at 7:30…

Rob Nunley Are you sitting down? If you have anything sharp in your hand, please put it down. If you?re on an upstairs floor of the building you?re currently in, go down the ground floor, or at least get away from the window. All right, everybody safe? Everyone comfortable? Good, because I have some devastating…

WCMS Softball Tryouts Warren County Middle School coach Tessa Bouldin will hold tryouts on July 17-18 at the Warren County High School softball field. On Monday, sign-up will be from 4-4:30 p.m. and tryouts will run from 5-7 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. You must have a parent present to sign up. For more information…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Tuesday in the Gold and Silver bowling league, Security Federal ended the day with a comfortable lead with 28 points for first place. McMinnville Lanes is in second with 24 points, Crouch Motors and Cumberland Lumber had 23 points each. Dr Pepper had 17, Holder Realty…

KNOXVILLE (AP) Nebraska and Tennessee have agreed to a home-and-home series in football set for 2016 and 2017, the schools announced Thursday. The Volunteers will visit Lincoln on Sept. 10, 2016, and the Cornhuskers will play in Knoxville on Sept. 9, 2017. ?The University of Tennessee and the University of Nebraska share rich football histories…

American League: CPatterson, Baltimore, 29; Figgins, Los Angeles, 26; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 24; ISuzuki, Seattle, 23; Podsednik, Chicago, 22; BRoberts, Baltimore, 17; Damon, New York, 14. National League: Reyes, New York, 30; Pierre, Chicago, 24; HaRamirez, Florida, 20; FLopez, Cincinnati, 20; DRoberts, San Diego, 19; ASoriano, Washington, 18.

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Dale Stubblefield Most of us will never know, or be able to feel, the pressure athletes have on them especially when everything is on the line. You have to have nerves of steal and the stomach of a goat to finish strong and victorious. Even if you?ve done it a thousand times with a steady…

Members of the San Francisco Giants? coaching staff have been contacted by former Sen. George Mitchell in his independent investigation of steroids in baseball. Several people within Major League Baseball confirmed that coaches had heard from Mitchell. They spoke on condition of anonymity. One of Giants slugger Barry Bonds’ personal trainers, who works for the…