Jerry Brown, new Westwood Middle School basketball coach (Photo provided) Westwood Middle School athletic director James Dobson made public the hiring of Jerry Brown as the new boys’ basketball coach at Westwood in a press release on Tuesday afternoon.  Brown, who served as the Grundy County High School head coach in 2016, spent last school year as an assistant coach on the staff of Micah Williams at Coffee County Central High School.  Brown has already accepted a position at Westwood and will assume his head coaching duties when schools reconvene.  When contacted by Thunder Radio on Tuesday, Brown said...

When the Predators aren’t playing games, it’s not uncommon to find members of the team frequenting Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, visiting with patients and lifting spirits in an otherwise difficult time. Preds players may not be able to make those same rounds in person at the moment, but the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t preventing them from checking in with their friends and making sure those on the front lines are taken care of. On Friday, the 365 Pediatric Cancer Fund presented by Twice Daily, created by Preds goaltender Pekka Rinne and former Predators Captain Shea Weber, provided...

by Mark Bowman, MLB.com Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. These rankings are for fun and debate purposes only. 1. Chipper Jones, 1993-2012Key fact: Stands with Barry Bonds and Carl Yastrzemski as the only players in MLB history to record at least 400 homers, 2,700 hits, 1,600 RBIs,...

Terry Floyd Field lit up for #BeTheLight2020 on Monday The Coronavirus pandemic has shut down all school activities at Tennessee high schools and it is unclear for how long that will continue. During a time when baseball and softball fields would normally be full of excited prep athletes, uncertainty has put in jeopardy the senior season of Red Raider and Lady Raider athletes alike. A pair of Coffee County CHS coaches have joined the #BeTheLight movement. Coach David Martin of the CHS baseball team first lit up Powers Field on Friday night and was joined by Coach Brandon McWhorter...

As of Monday, the NFL Draft is just 10 days away. The Titans are putting the finishing touches on their big board leading up to the April 23-25 draft, and across the country the mock drafts continue to change. The 29th overall pick of the first round belongs to the Titans. Let’s take another tour of the mock drafts to see what the analysts think the Titans will do …. Daniel Jeremiah, NFL.com: Brandon Aiyuk, WR, Arizona State Mel Kiper, Jr, ESPN: Ezra Cleveland, OT, Boise State Charles Davis, NFL.com: Josh Jones, OT, Houston Pat Kirwan, SIRIUSXM: Austin Jackson,...

Head Coach Gary Smith of Nashville SC It’s midday in Nashville and Gary Smith is sitting upstairs in his home study. It’s not where he usually would be and it’s not where he wants to be. An unprecedented world event means soccer coaches are, like everyone, adjusting to a new normal. “When you’re in the everyday, working, coaching, media, planning, matches, debriefing, your brain is working a million miles an hour, “ says the 51 year old. “It is abnormal, that you just come down two or three gears…personally I do feel a little bit lost if I’m honest.”...

The lights shown bright on Friday night at Powers Field as part of the #BeTheLight movement for the Class of 2020 The athletic fields at high schools around the country are usually full of prep athletes in the middle of April.  In 2020, however, those same fields look a lot different.  The Coronavirus pandemic has shut down all school activities at Tennessee high schools and it is unclear for how long that will continue.  During a time when these fields would normally be full of excited prep athletes, uncertainty has put in jeopardy the senior season of Red Raider...

Titans OLB Kamalei Correa Titans outside linebacker Kamalei Correa ended the 2019 season with momentum – and it’s carried into the offseason. Correa and the Titans have officially agreed to terms on a one-year deal, a development Titans General Manager Jon Robinson alluded to on a conference call last week. Correa tied for second on the team with five sacks in 2019, and he added two more in the playoffs last season. In the team’s final game of the season, Correa tallied a team-high 10 tackles in the AFC Championship Game against the Chiefs. Correa, acquired in a trade...