Mark Wiedmer

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Wiedmer: Harkleroad says it's 'fun... stressful'

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

It isn’t every day in our business that you get to expense the latest copy of Playboy under the extraordinary explanation that it’s needed for research.

Chattanooga: Norman comes up short again

Monday, July 21, 2008

OK, it looked like a choke. When you bogey four of the first six holes on the final day of a major championship — as Greg Norman did at the start of Sunday’s British Open — it’s more than gale-force wind and rough you could lose a small car in.

Currys can stay put with his new job

Sunday, July 20, 2008

A few months ago, Carolyn Curry called her husband of 45 years and asked Bill a simple question: “You think we should try to see each other again?”

Caswell adds Baylor to his tennis duties

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Manker Patten tennis pro Ned Caswell believes the private facility along the banks of the Tennessee River is “the greatest tennis club in the country.”

Wiedmer: Billy Packer was more laudable than lovable

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Like a lot of us whose ages are at least a wee bit north of 40, Alabama basketball coach Mark Gottfried pretty much learned his college basketball from television analyst Billy Packer.

Wiedmer: Vanderwerf has a story worth telling

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Like most 10-year-old baseball players staying together as a team in a hotel away from home, the Madisonville Dixie Youth team couldn’t wait to jump in the swimming pool Monday night.

Chattanooga: Great sports moments shine in ’08

Monday, July 14, 2008

My friend Donahue sent the e-mail a few days after the greatest Wimbledon final in history, even if the wrong guy won. (Sorry, my Federer fanaticism slipped in there for a second.)

Wiedmer: Green Bay-Favre now a messy divorce

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Divorce is never easy. Whether you’re Christie Brinkley. Or, apparently, Brett Favre.

Wiedmer: DeMatteo, Bandy help Mannings

Thursday, July 10, 2008

In their much-traveled careers as professional football players, former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga standouts Cos DeMatteo and Nate Bandy caught passes from quarterbacks as varied as UTC flamethrower Chris Sanders and Tennessee Titans All-Pro Steve McNair.

Wiedmer: July not so bad with Peterson’s NBA job

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Eleven months a year, Buzz Peterson loved coaching college basketball. Appalachian State. Tulsa. Tennessee. Coastal Carolina. It didn’t matter — he embraced them all equally.