MIAMI (AP) ? Michael Irvin was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday despite a troubled past, though voters denied entry to retired NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue. The former Dallas Cowboys receiver, who won three Super Bowls in the 1990s, got in on his third try. Irvin pleaded no contest in 1996…

By Joey Wray The Ben Lomand Longbeards chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will be holding its annual superfund banquet on Feb. 10 at the Warren County Middle School with doors opening at 5 p.m. Each year the local chapter holds this superfund banquet to raise money for the NWTF which is in turn…

Monday, Feb. 5 Freshman basketball, District 7-AAA Invitational Tournament at WCHS: Boys? semifinal No. 1, 5 p.m. Girls? semifinal No. 1, White Co. vs. Cookeville-Lebanon winner, 6:30 Boys? semifinal No. 2, 8 p.m. Central Tenn. Conference basketball tournament at WCMS*: White Co. girls vs. Tullahoma West, 4 p.m. Warren Co. or White Co. boys vs.…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD The Boyd High School basketball teams traveled to Van Buren County Friday night for a District 9-A matchup. Van Buren took the sweep at home as the Lady Eagles dropped the Lady Broncos 74-58 and in boys action the Eagles rolled to a 69-32 win. In the girls? game Van Buren scored…

By ROB NUNLEY Tukeea Hicks goes up against Warren County?s Sarah Roller for two of her team-high 17 points Friday night. MURFREESBORO ? Entering Friday night?s game at Blackman, the Lady Pioneers still had an outside chance of avoiding the eighth seed for this year?s District 7-AAA tournament. But the Lady Blaze assured Warren County?s…

By Duane Sherrill The Bears will shock the world today, upsetting Peyton Manning and the Colts, with the oft-criticized Rex Grossman named MVP after a Peyton-like performance. Wait, no. Peyton Manning will avoid choking in the big game, take home the MVP after hitting on five TD passes thereby prompting the NFL to go ahead…

By ROB NUNLEY Donta Weir finds himself trapped by a pair of Blackman defenders during Friday night?s first half. MURFREESBORO ? With a chance at their first district win of the season ? and the opportunity to spoil Blackman?s homecoming party ? seemingly in their sights Friday night, the Pioneer offense went cold at ?The…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD By defeating Antioch High School on Wednesday, the Pioneer wrestling team earned their way to the TSSAA Dual Wrestling tournament in Clarskville. On Friday, Warren County got its first experience of the state tournament, taking on the No. 2 team in the state, Soddy Daisy. Warren County fell in the first round…

TODAY, FEB. 4 Trousdale Church of Christ will hold Friends and Family Day with speaker Eugene Wilkerson. Bible study at 9 a.m., worship at 10 a.m., lunch following worship, 1 p.m. song service and 1:30 p.m. evening worship service. MONDAY, FEB. 5 Lucky CIC will hold its community watch meeting at 6:30 p.m. The Morrison…

By LISA HOBBS Although students in Warren County got only one snow day on Thursday, because Friday was actually a sick day, that didn?t keep them from making the most of the snow. Kids could be seen around town enjoying snowball fights, crunching the snow, sledding, catching snowflakes with their tongues, making snow angels, snowmen…