3sib.com - 6/17/2009
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Over the past 18 years, I’ve been fortunate enough to be present for 72 Tennessee football games, which is just stunning to me. For someone to live nearly four hours from Knoxville and never be financially well-off, it has always been a goal of mine to save up enough money to drive to ...
Big Orange Roundtable: Volume 1
3sib.com 7/13/2009 — Welcome to the bowels of offseason purgatory, where Major League Baseball’s All-Star break means sports takes a break and football is still way too far away; where the heat of summer can only be matched by the load of work at Ghost’s day job; and where Tennessee’s new coaching ...
2009 Big Orange Roundtable: Week 1 – the “Welcome Back” Edition
gate21.net 7/16/2009 — This Week’s Roundtable is hosted by: MoonDog Sports.com
Once more unto the breach, dear friend…
This week marks the return of the Big Orange Roundtable and is hosted by MoonDog over at MoonDog Sports.com .
Given the fact that I have been tied up with re-modeling and am just ...
1965 Vols: Heartache and Victory
3sib.com 6/8/2009 — This is a great read from Michael Shibley on the Bleacher Report regarding the “Roller Coaster Season” of 1965. During this season, two of the most interesting and dramatic things happened, and they were from total opposite ends of the spectrum.
So Tennessee was 2-0-1 as the the ...
Remembering John Ward: Ten years since “Give Him Six!”
gate21.net 7/6/2009 — Regardless of how things turn out for the Tennessee Volunteers this fall, the 2009 season represents so very many milestones—it really isn’t even worth the trouble to try and count them all. There has been so much change lately and so very many new looks and faces that everything seems as if ...
Hey Auburn…Thanks!
gate21.net 6/1/2009 —
In the eyes of rival fans and the so-called “outsiders,” Lane Kiffin has made Tennessee football sort of an offseason laughing-stock. What with Kiffin’s incorrectly calling Urban Meyer a cheater and the secondary violations and taking in Daniel Hood and the other stuff - ...
The List: No. 38 JAMES “LITTLE MAN” STEWART
3sib.com 7/30/2009 — Through hours of research and argument, 3SIB sculpted our list of the top 50 all-time Tennessee Vols. We weighed statistics, passion, leadership and national recognition. Feel free to disagree and even freer to argue. Heck, even we don’t agree completely with how the list turned out … because ...
Almost Showtime
spartyandfriends.com 5/6/2009 — Lane and his hot wife
Lane Kiffin is less than 4 months away from putting his money where his mouth is. A little background for those who don’t follow big time college football: Kiffin was hired by Tennessee to revive a program that had not won an SEC title since 1998 nor competed in a BCS ...
The List: No. 32 DALE JONES
3sib.com 8/5/2009 — Through hours of research and argument, 3SIB sculpted our list of the top 50 all-time Tennessee Vols. We weighed statistics, passion, leadership and national recognition. Feel free to disagree and even freer to argue. Heck, even we don’t agree completely with how the list turned out … because ...
Tracking Track & Field
3sib.com 5/23/2009 — Sarah Bowman (second from left) is a track and field stud … and she ain’t bad to look at, either
As I am a Tennessee fan, this update is going to be primarily about the Vols, but I’ll do my best to throw in some info about Alabama for the Tide readers.
For those of you that [...]
Tennessee can now wear home jerseys in Tuscaloosa
3sib.com 6/5/2009 — Alabama can sport their crimson jerseys boldly in Neyland Stadium.
The Vol Historian, Tom Mattingly, has the story. He relayed this afternoon that The Sports Animal reported that this year, the visiting team may wear their home jerseys at an away game if both teams agree. Essentially, it ...