By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Warren County High School volleyball team continues to improve during its preseason outings. On Saturday, the Lady Pioneers traveled to Chattanooga for the Choo Choo Play Day, seeing saw action against five teams. In the first match of the day, Knoxville Karns defeated Warren County…

Dale Stubblefield The clock is ticking, and time is winding down as the Pioneer football team prepares to open its 2006 schedule. Approximately 56 hours from now, depending on when you read your Wednesday edition of the Southern Standard, 56 young men will travel to Bradley Central to test their gridiron skills against the Bears…

KNOXVILLE (AP) Games against Texas, Oklahoma State and Memphis and perennial conference foes Florida and Kentucky headline Tennessee?s schedule for the second year under coach Bruce Pearl. ?We are trying to become a perennial top 25 program,? Pearl said in a statement released Tuesday with the new schedule. ?We are trying to do in men?s…

The Pittsburgh Steelers made official what has seemed evident for weeks: coach Bill Cowher is no longer negotiating an extension to a contract that runs through 2007. The team announced Tuesday that it has ceased talks with Cowher on signing an extension so he can focus on coaching the returning Super Bowl champions. The team…

By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Doug ?Fat Cat? McClung races to a winning time of 1.79 seconds in the modified class Saturday night. A capacity crowd flocked to Hoot N? Holler Farm Saturday night, as the Tennessee Mud Racing Organization held a professional mud race at the local outdoor arena. TMRO…

Andruw Jones was scratched from the Atlanta Braves? lineup shortly before their game against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night because of a left knee injury. Jones was replaced in center field by Ryan Langerhans, while Adam LaRoche was moved up from seventh in the batting order to Jones? cleanup spot. The Braves said Jones…

By TERESA M. WALKER Associated Press Sports Writer NASHVILLE (AP) ? Prefer stability? The Tennessee Titans certainly do, especially on the offensive line. This franchise had right guard Bruce Matthews for 19 years and Brad Hopkins played 13 years at left tackle before retiring as a salary cap casualty earlier this year. The biggest change…

Madison resident and Warren County native Ricky Eugene Tubb, 48, was born July 8, 1958 and died Aug. 11 following a sudden illness. A Church of Christ minister at Corinth and Unity Churches of Christ and a manufacturing specialist inspector with Peterbilt Motor Company in Nashville, he was the son of Bobby Eugene and Helen…

McMinnville resident and Cookeville native Eugene Hunter, 73, was born Jan. 23, 1933 and died Aug. 14 at his home following an extended illness. A retired employee of Flower City Nursery and a member of the Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Isaac Allen and Bessie Emery Hunter. He was married to…

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) An Alabama judge was jailed on methamphetamine possession charges Tuesday in the same Mississippi town where his wife was arrested earlier this year on similar charges. Ira D. Colvin, a district judge from Pickens County, Ala., was arrested Monday afternoon by police investigating suspects who were believed to be traveling store-to-store purchasing…