Hosting old rival East Tullahoma, the Coffee County Middle School basketball teams celebrated 8th Grade Night on Thursday night.  In a pair of game you heard here on Thunder Radio, the Raiders and Lady Raiders finished their home season schedule with a conference sweep.  The Lady Raiders won 30 to 22 while the Red Raiders captured a 41 to 22 win. In a tight girls’ game, Coffee County needed a late rally to get the season sweep over the Lady Panthers.  After Coffee Middle built an 8 point lead 30 seconds into the 4th quarter, East rallied to cut...

Pekka Rinne was supposed to be off work Thursday. But Juuse Saros called in sick and Troy Grosenick was called up from Milwaukee as an emergency backup. That meant Rinne was called on to play in his 600th career game, which turned out to be a Predators’ 4-3 overtime loss to the Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena. For the 32nd time in his career, the 36-year-old Rinne started both games of back-to-backs, most of which came early during his career. The reigning Vezina Trophy winner stopped 28 shots during a 4-3 overtime victory Wednesday against the Blackhawks in Chicago...

The Motlow State Bucks had six players score in double figures and seven players with at least four rebounds as they led wire to wire in an 89-83 win over non-conference opponent Lawson State at Copperweld Arena Saturday afternoon. Motlow (5-0, 9-6) had not seen action since Dec. 18, when they dropped a 77-71 decision to Wallace State. The win over Lawson was the Bucks’ sixth win in their previous seven games. Motlow will return to TCCAA conference play this weekend, hosting Roane State (2-3, 5-10) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, then welcoming Walters State (3-2, 11-5) at 4 p.m....

Jason Wood has been named the manager of the Nashville Sounds as announced today by the Texas Rangers. Wood is the 29th manager in franchise history. Joining Wood’s staff in Nashville will be hitting coach Howard Johnson, pitching coach Brian Shouse, bench coach Geno Petralli, bullpen coach Eric Gagne, athletic trainer Carlos Olivas and strength and conditioning coach Al Sandoval. Wood, 49, will manage at the Triple-A level for the fifth consecutive season. He was Triple-A Round Rock’s manager from 2015-18 and compiled a 280-283 (.497) record. He led the Express to the 2015 American Southern Division title and...

The Coffee County Raider and Lady Raider basketball teams return home on Friday to begin a six game home stand as they welcome Franklin County to the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym.  This 6 game district home stand will feature the last regular season home games of the year for the CHS teams.  Special events have been scheduled for each night of the home stand and the public is invited to come out and celebrate with the Raiders. On Friday night, the basketball teams will recognize members of the North Coffee Elementary and the Coffee County Middle School basketball...

You could say Filip Forsberg is back. The winger shined on Wednesday night in Chicago, scoring twice, including a dazzling individual effort in overtime to win the contest for the Nashville Predators. The 4-3 victory in extra time gives the Preds points in six straight and seven out of a possible eight on their current road trip. The contest was only Forsberg’s second since returning from an injury that forced him to miss 17 games. No. 9 was nearly a point-per-game player to open the season in his first 27 games and with a goal in the second period...

U.S. Soccer announced in December that the U.S. Women’s National Team will return to Nashville as a part of it preparations for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. In a 10-game build up to the World Cup dubbed “Countdown to the Cup,” the U.S. WNT will play England at Nissan Stadium on March 2, 2019 in the SheBelieves Cup. Nashville SC Season Ticket Members will have exclusive presale access to tickets for the game. A four-team round robin tournament, the 2019 SheBelieves Cup will include the U.S., England, Brazil and Japan, playing doubleheaders in three cities from February 27...

In a pair of games that featured strong performances and incredible drama, the Coffee County CHS basketball teams claimed a huge sweep over Tullahoma on Tuesday night in the Wildcats den.   The Lady Raiders needed an improbable comeback to stun the Lady Cats in overtime 62 to 55.  The Red Raiders held off a last second Wildcat rally to claim a 45 to 42 win. Trailing by 2 points with 3 seconds remaining, Jacey Vaughn went to the free throw line and hit a pair of free throws to send the game in overtime.  In overtime, Vaughn hit a...