CLARKSVILLE (AP) ?Pacman? Jones fires up the Coliseum crowd during a game last year. After a tumultuous rookie season, the Titans? top pick from 2005 said he?s looking forward to being somewhat out of the spotlight this year, thanks to the team?s acquisition of Vince Yount. Adam ?Pacman? Jones is eager to see what happens…

Floyd Landis was fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considered him its champion Saturday after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone. The samples contained synthetic testosterone, indicating that it came from an outside source. Lab head Jacques De Ceaurriz said the isotope testing procedure was…

PARIS (AP) Floyd Landis was fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considered him its champion Saturday after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone. The samples contained synthetic testosterone, indicating that it came from an outside source. ?I have received a text message from Chatenay-Malabry lab…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The chemist who created ?the clear,? a previously undetectable steroid, was sentenced Friday to three months in prison and three months? home confinement for his role in the BALCO drug scandal. Patrick Arnold was the last of five defendants convicted of steroid-distribution charges connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, a nutritional…

KNOXVILLE (AP) Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer was more cautious in praising his team at this year?s media day on Saturday, saying there are ?no guarantees? for a great season even though the goal remains winning championships. The beginning of the season is cause for celebration for many fans, and there were some fireworks on this…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Mary Kate Fisher of the Lady Pioneers works on her bump passing during a recent team practice. The Lady Pioneers are busily preparing for their Aug. 21 season opener. The Lady Pioneer volleyball team made an unscheduled trip to Chattanooga Arts and Sciences on Thursday, taking…

McMinnville Building Center won the Fraley?s Invitational Tournament with a 4-1 win over Rockford. MBC?s Tracy Crawford was named the tournament MVP after fanning 44 batters in three games.(August 5, 1981)

Charles W. Johnson photo Dwight Sullivan, right, of ProMega BioSciences, hands Colby Elkins, 7, $13 cash for the 36 grams of lightning bugs he collected, as siblings Hannah Reed, 9, and her brother John, 11, look on. The Reeds earned $39 for the 106 grams they turned in at the Civic Center Thursday. The insects…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The office of 11th District constable will remain open for now, despite write-in ballots cast during Thursday?s election, ballots election administrator Donna Yates says will go uncounted. ?The law clearly states for write-in ballots to be counted there must be a request in writing made no…

TODAY, AUG. 6 There will be a gospel meeting at Unity Church of Christ from Aug. 6-10. Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. and Monday thru Thursday at 7 p.m. with preacher Tim Parish from Central Church of Christ and song leader Avery Blair. Lunch Sunday after 11 a.m. services. Unity is located on Pigeon Hill…