There are a few things that sports writers love.
No one expects to hit a hole-in-one when he walks onto a golf course. Not Arnold Palmer. Not Tiger Woods. Not University of Tennessee at Chattanooga sophomore Davis Bunn.
So how do you hate LeBron James now?
With 200 yards to go in Saturday's Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another looked like yet another pretender, apparently unable to do so much as win two legs of his sport's holy grail, much less become the first Triple Crown winner in 34 years.
Be it for political or peer pressure, college football was headed for a playoff. You knew it; I knew it; even Smokey knew it.
The news first arrived in February. Chattanooga sports greats Gibby Gilbert II and Zan Guerry would be officially inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame this Saturday in Nashville.
Poor Florida State. The Seminoles aren't feeling the love they thought they'd receive from the Atlantic Coast Conference when they joined America's Cockiest Conference back in 1991. Duh.
The vast majority of this newspaper's subscribers live in Tennessee. Because Memphis is the largest city in Tennessee, it could be argued that we should all be Memphis Grizzlies fans whenever the NBA playoffs begin and the Griz are in the mix.
