Kelvin Verge of CHS football The Coffee County football team celebrated Senior Night and Breast Cancer Awareness on a rainy Friday night.  The Red Raiders welcomed the state’s top ranked Oakland Patriots to Carden-Jarrell Field for their final home game of the season.  The defending state champions showed why they are the state’s top team as they crushed the Red Raiders 80 to 6. After the Coffee County defense stopped Oakland and made them settle for a field goal in their first possession, the Patriots got 4 touchdowns in the 1st quarter and 4 more in the 2nd quarter...

Westwood Lady Rockets with their Morrison Tournament Championship trophy[Photo provided] The Westwood basketball teams traveled to Morrison on Friday night for the final night of the Morrison Ruritan Preseason Tournament.  The Rockets shook off their jitters from Thursday night to get a 37 to 18 win over Dibrell in the tournament’s consolation game.  The Lady Rockets continued their tournament dominance with a 36 to 18 win over Morrison.  In the boys game, the Rockets held Dibrell scoreless in the 3rd quarter to push a 9 point halftime lead to 17 points entering the 4th quarter.  Jayden Carter led Westwood...

The Coffee County Youth Bass Club was in action on Saturday in a Central Tennessee Region Bass Nation Tournament.  Six Raider high school boats were in action competing on Center Hill Lake in the rain.  Four of the Coffee County teams, out of 69 boats, finished in the Top 20.  The boat of Jacob Garms and Jase Rice were the top finishing Coffee County boat as they caught 4 fish totaling 8.23 pounds with a big fish of 2.52 pounds.  The team of Kaden Freeze and Briley Sain finished in 12th place as they caught 3 fish totaling 5.61...

The Coffee County Elementary Basketball League was in action on Saturday with a full slate of 8 games.  Four girls’ games and 4 boys’ games filled the day of games at Coffee County Middle School.  In girls’ play, East Coffee dropped Hickerson 16 to 5; New Union rolled over North Coffee 30 to 14; Westwood caged Hillsboro 28 to 7 and College Street blanked Deerfield 17 to 0.  In boys’ play, East Coffee grounded Hickerson 23 to 8; North Coffee got past New Union 27 to 16; Westwood tamed Hillsboro 27 to 11 and College Street shot down Deerfield...

Story by MYFL President Lawrence Phillips. Flag Division (5-6-7 year olds )The A Team lost to Gordonsville 33-0. The B-Team also lost to Gordonsville 23-12. The Manchester Red Raiders flag division closed out the 2019 season 3-3. 0-1 in the playoffs. JR Division (8-9 year olds) The Manchester Red Raiders JR Division also faced Gordonsville in the play offs and could not find their way to the end zone. The Bulldogs offense managed two scores along with two 2 point conversions to upend the Raiders 16-0. The Raiders finish the 2019 season at 4-2, 0-1 in the playoffs. MYFL...

Ryan Ellis[Photo courtesy of NHL.com] Roman Josi tied it; Ryan Ellis won it. Nashville’s top defensive pair combined to give the Predators a 3-2 overtime win against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night at Amalie Arena. The victory boosts Nashville’s win streak to three games, and two power-play goals on the night – with a third that came just after another man advantage had expired – gave the Preds their seventh win in 11 tries. It was the first time this season the Preds have scored two power-play goals in a single game, and goaltender Juuse Saros also...

Story by Jim Wyatt – TitansOnline.com It was another heart-stopping finish at Nissan Stadium on Sunday. And another Titans win. Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill threw three touchdown passes and the Titans defense got another big stop on defense late to record a 27-23 win over the Buccaneers. The Titans took the lead with 6:55 left on an eight-yard touchdown pass from Tannehill to rookie receiver A.J. Brown, which capped a 12-play, 90-yard drive. The Titans appeared to be on the verge of extending their lead, but punter Brett Kern was stopped short on a fourth-down run late on a...

Two first half goals and a late game clincher were more than enough to seal Nashville SC’s first-ever playoff victory, a 3-1 win over Charleston Battery at First Tennessee Park on Saturday night. Lebo Moloto, Daniel Ríos and Derrick Jones all scored their first playoff goals in Nashville SC gold to advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals next weekend. Moloto got the scoring started for NSC in the 10’ minute when a Matt LaGrassa pass found the South African midfielder running free in the box. A shot around Charleston keeper Joe Kuzminsky by Moloto gave NSC the lead 1-0....