Aug. 9    @ Winfred Bryant           6:30 Aug. 14       Jasper Middle             6:30 Aug. 21 Tullahoma                         6:30 Aug. 28  @  Shelbyville                 6:30 Sept. 4   @  South Franklin Co.    6:30 Sept. 11       North Franklin Co.     6:30 Sept. 18  @  Warren Co.                12:30 Sept. 25 White...

The Nashville Predators intend to match the $100 million offer sheet signed by the Philadelphia Flyers for defenseman Shea Weber. In a statement late Thursday morning, Predators General Manager David Poile said Nashville has one week to match Philadelphia’s offer or lose the three-time All-Star. “We have stated previously that, should a team enter into an offer sheet with Shea, our intention would be to match and retain Shea,” the statement read. “Our ownership has provided us with the necessary resources to build a Stanley Cup-winning team. Due to the complexity of the offer sheet, we will take the...

Motlow head softball coach Tori Raby-Gentry and a number of her Lady Bucks team members recently held their annual softball camp on the main Motlow campus in Moore County. The camp featured two sessions, one for younger players under the age of 13 and the second for girls age 13 and over. “The kids got a lot of one-on-one instruction from me and my team members,” said Raby-Gentry. “Our numbers weren’t quite as high as we had hoped, but for this time of year with so many people on vacation we were pleased with the turnout.” The camp focused...

Coffee County has hired a new Defensive Coordinator in Rick Butler and he brings with him a long and impressive resume’. Butler brings 25 years of coaching football at every level of the game. He served a Special Teams Coordinator with the Nashville Kats of AFL. Butler was Defensive Coordinator and Recruiting Coordinator at the University of West Alabama. He served as the Offensive Coordinator at Sewanee-University of the South. He then moved to defensive coordinator and special team’s coordinator. Coached Offensive Line at Cumberland University. Rick has also been a Head H.S. Football Coach at three different Schools...

Last night (July 18, 2012) the Coffee County High School softball team held its annual banquet at the Manchester/Coffee County Conference Center. Several awards were given out by head coach Terry Floyd and Jeff Cox awarded Sr Chelsea Howell with the Gateway Tire and Service/Thunder Radio Player of the Year. Most of the speeches were about the tremendous season the Lady Raiders had going to the state tournament and finishing 3rd. Floyd reminded everyone now the work begins for another run for a state...

The Manchester Babe Ruth team that won the district tournament last week will compete in the state tournament beginning Friday (July 20, 2012) in Lebanon. The all-stars first game will be against Sparta starting at noon. A win in that game will put Manchester playing at 5:30pm on Saturday. In case of a loss Manchester will play at noon...

The Coffee County Red Raiders hosted a passing camp on Monday. The CHS passing attack looked sharp as the Raiders defeated Ravenwood 3-2 and Franklin County 2-0 in the final passing camp of the preseason at Carden-Jarrell field on Monday night. CHS concluded the contest with a 1-1 tie with Grundy County. Starting QB Peyton Meeker had a total of 4 TD passes hitting Jeffrey Simmons and Logan Baumstein with 2 each. Sophomore quarterback Jimmy Hollandsworth received the majority of snaps against Franklin County in the Raiders 2-0 victory, hurling passes to Matthew Ross and Baumstein. The first day...