by Mike G. Morreale – NHL.com The Nashville Predators were 35-26-8 (.565 points percentage) in the regular season and will enter the Stanley Cup Qualifiers as the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference. They will play the No. 11 seed, the Arizona Coyotes (33-29-8, .529), in one of eight best-of-5 series, and the winner will advance to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Predators went 16-11-1 after they replaced coach Peter Laviolette with John Hynes on Jan. 6. They had won three in a row and appeared to be finding their game when the season was paused March 12...

Nashville Soccer Club arrived in Orlando, Fla. this afternoon in preparation for the MLS is Back Tournament. Nashville SC will continue its full-team training regimen from the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex before kicking off its participation on July 8 against Chicago Fire FC at 9:30 p.m. CT on ESPN and ESPN Deportes and locally on 102.5 The Game and ESPN 94.9 Radio. Follow Nashville SC in its participation in the MLS Is Back Tournament by visiting www.NashvilleSC.com and the club’s social channels on Instagram, Facebook, and...

by Mark Bowman – MLB.com Freddie Freeman and Will Smith were among the four Braves players who have tested positive for COVID-19. Having received consent from each player on Saturday, Braves manager Brian Snitker announced Freeman, Smith, Touki Toussaint and Pete Kozma had tested positive. Smith and Toussaint have been asymptomatic, but Freeman and Kozma have been battling a fever and other symptoms related to the coronavirus. Freeman tested negative when the team conducted intake testing at the start of this week. But the All-Star first baseman tested positive after he started feeling ill on Thursday night. He had...

Odis of Lions Club(in purple to right) gets safely into 3rd base ahead of the throw while KK’s 3rd baseman Walker(#12 in red) awaits the throw in 8U action on Thursday in the Manchester Youth Baseball Association. The Manchester Youth Baseball Association hit the diamond for the 1st time this week on Thursday night at Fred Deadman Park.  After 3 straight nights of rainouts, 4 age divisions were in action with 8 games scheduled on a muggy evening. In the 6U division, Manchester Tire and Brake won a forfeit over Lovelady Auto Parts and Star Physical Therapy edged Cooper...

Coming up on Saturday morning’s Coffee Coaches Show we will have the first in our new series of interviews with “Central High School Legends.”  On a day when Al White Ford/Lincoln is closed for the 4th of July holiday, we have lined up interviews with 3 generations of stand-out performers from their days playing for the Red and Black of Central.  The Legend Series will be a semi-regular feature in the coming months for the Coffee Coaches Show as we attempt to revisit some of the historic names to ever play sports in this community. We begin the show...

There will be a player/parent meeting for prospective members of the Coffee County CHS cross country team for 2020. The meeting will take place on Thursday, July 9th beginning at 6 PM in the CHS cafeteria. Practice for the fall season will get underway on Monday, July 13th. Anyone with questions should contact Coffee County CHS athletic director Rebecca Koger at: kogerr@k12coffee.net Student/athletes need to remember to bring along with them the signed and completed TSSAA Physical and Parental Consent forms with them when they arrive for the first day of practice. That form can be downloaded at:  http://tssaa.org/wp-content/uploads/Forms/med01.pdf...

Thursday MYBA Schedule 6U Division at T-Ball Field 5:00 PM – Lovelady Auto Parts vs. Manchester Tire & Brake 7:30 PM – Star Physical Therapy vs. Cooper Sports 8U Division at Fast Pitch Field 5:00 PM – KK’s vs. Lions Club 7:30 PM – Interstate Auto vs. Freedom Automotive 10U Division at National League Field 5:00 PM – Coffee County Bank vs. Viam 12U Division at Aaron Miller Field 5:00 PM – Shelter Insurance vs. Peoples Bank The pictures, material and information contained in this story may not be republished, rebroadcast, rewritten, or redistributed, for commercial gain, without the...