She’s one of the lightning rods of women’s sports with a tough coaching style and lots of national championships. But no matter what side of the fence you’re on, your heart has to feel for Pat Summit. The legendary Tennessee Lady Vols coach announced this week that she suffers from the early onset of dementia [...]
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Softball team banned by church for having gays?
A lesbian softball coach in Memphis, Tenn., says her team was banned from a local church softball league because she is gay. Jana J. Jacobson claims she was questioned about her sexual orientation by administrators at Bellevue Baptist Church. “Finally, in my frustration, I said that I am going to be clear. I am gay, [...]
Huge upset in college basketball
The biggest upset of the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament has to be Ball State toppling Tennessee. In the women’s tournament. The Lady Volunteers are the two-time defending champs and were 42-0 in the first two rounds of the tournament before being routed by the Cardinals, 71-55. While the Volunteers had lost [...]
Kiffin does not-so-full Monte
Since Lane Kiffin arrived at Tennessee, he has made recruiting a focal point of his tenure. Part of that has been accusing other SEC schools of committing violations; Some of it has been him committing violations. Now come stories of Kiffin violating rules of other sorts, but making some gay men salivate with a strip [...]