The start date for local prep sports suffered another delay on Monday.  Both the Coffee County School System and the Manchester City School System announced that schools would remain closed through April 12th.   The closure of the local schools due to the COVID-19 Pandemic also means that interscholastic sports cannot resume practices or contests until school is back in session.  In order to help local prep sports fans deal with the absence of live sports, Thunder Radio is going to bring you encore coverage of previous broadcasts of middle and high school sports.  Each Thursday and Friday at 6...

By John Brice, TSSAA In the early morning hours of March 3, deadly tornadoes rampaged across the state of Tennessee as many of its residents slept. By sunrise on that Tuesday, damage spanned from west of Nashville to more than 60 miles east along the Cumberland Plateau. The death toll in Tennessee would rise to 25; injuries were far more widespread. Somehow, just two days later, Upperman High School’s girls’ basketball team mustered the fortitude to play in the Region 4AA championship game. Despite coming up short, they would have one last shot, 48 hours later, in the sectional...

By Jim Wyatt, TitansOnline.com The NFL Draft is on as scheduled for April 23-25. And the Titans still have the 29th overall pick in the first round. With free agency not even a week old, right now there’s still a lot to be determined with the Titans, and across the NFL. But that hasn’t kept the mock drafts from doing their thing. Let’s take our second tour of the mock drafts for 2020. …. Mel Kiper, Jr: Yetur Gross-Matos, DE/OLB, Penn State Daniel Jeremiah, NFL.com: Josh Jones, OT, Houston Charles Davis, NFL.com: Josh Jones, OT, Houston Bucky Brooks, NFL.com:...

Patrick Harper of the Nashville Predators Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/GM David Poile announced Friday that the team has signed forward Patrick Harper to a two-year, entry-level contract. Harper, 21 (7/28/98), is coming off a four-year career at Boston University headlined by a 14-goal, 37-point senior season in 2019-20 that helped him earn Hockey East Third Team All-Star honors. His 37 points matched his career high first established in his freshman campaign, and his 14 goals were a personal collegiate best. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound forward finished the season 15th among all NCAA skaters in points per game (1.16),...

By Jim Wyatt – TitansOnline.com A day after the 2019 season ended, Titans cornerback Logan Ryan was asked about his football future. Standing in front of the locker he occupied for three seasons, Ryan smiled before conceding he didn’t really know. “If I could foresee the future then I would just start betting on games like they did in Back to the Future,” Ryan said back in January. “But I don’t think anybody knows that. … I kid you not, all I wanted to do was to pour my heart and soul into this franchise. I wanted to make...

In accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance to postpone events involving more than 50 people over the next eight weeks, Nashville Soccer Club in conjunction with Major League Soccer has extended the postponement of its matches during this period of time. MLS remains focused on playing the entire 2020 season and is evaluating all options, including pushing back the end of the season and playing MLS Cup in December, as the league did prior to the 2019 season. The league is also identifying other available dates. Throughout this process, MLS will continue to prioritize the...

Coming up on Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show, we will discuss the current suspension of local prep sports due to the school closings as a precaution against the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Local schools and prep athletics are suspended until at least April 1st. Our guests will be Coffee County CHS athletic director Rebecca Koger, Coffee County Middle School athletic director Kyle Harris and Westwood Middle School athletic director Jim Dobson. The Coffee Coaches Show is broadcast LIVE from the showroom of Al White Ford/Lincoln each and every Saturday morning at 10 AM. The Coffee Coaches Show is heard...

Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves [Photo by MLB.com] Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman will donate $125,000 to aid three charities in their efforts to assist those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.Freeman will donate $50,000 to the Atlanta Food Bank, $50,000 to Giving Kitchen and $25,000 to the Salvation Army. Freeman’s donation to Giving Kitchen will aid over 30 food service workers with utility and rent. This Atlanta-based charity pays living expenses for food service workers who are sick, injured, experiencing a housing crisis or suffering from the death of a family member. The Braves announced Tuesday that they,...