The mandatory summer dead period for all TSSAA sports began at 12:01 AM on Sunday, June 24 and ends at midnight on Saturday, July 7. During this time there is to be no activity in high school sports or any middle school sports sanctioned by the TSSAA. Coaches and players can’t hold workouts and all school facilities are to be closed. To quote the definition from the TSSAA bylaws, Dead Period-No coaching, observing, or contact between coach and players in sport involved. There is no practice, no open facilities, and no weight training/conditioning. The TSSAA instituted this period 20...

Tickets for USA-Mexico, presented by AT&T, on Sept. 11 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, will go on sale Tuesday, June 26 at 10 a.m. CT. Tickets can be purchased through ussoccer.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets will be available for purchase at Nissan Stadium at a later date. Tickets for this event will be mobile only. Ultimate Fan Tickets (special VIP packages that include a premium ticket, a custom-made official U.S. National Team jersey with your name and preferred number, VIP access, and other unique benefits) are available starting Friday, June 22 at 10 a.m. CT exclusively through ussoccer.com. Group...

Monday night’s scheduled series opener between the Nashville Sounds and Oklahoma City Dodgers was postponed due to unplayable field conditions at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. The game will be made up in a doubleheader Wednesday. First pitch for game one is scheduled for 4:35 p.m. with game two beginning approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one. Both games will be seven innings. The two teams will continue the series as scheduled Tuesday night at 7:05 p.m. followed by Wednesday’s doubleheader and conclude it Thursday night at 7:05 p.m. The 2018 season is the Sounds’ 41st in franchise history and...

The Coffee County Red Raider basketball team closed out the summer scrimmage season on Friday with a scrimmage doubleheader at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym.  Coffee County opened up with a 57 to 48 win over Moore County.  After the passing of a thunderstorm that knocked out the power to CHS, Coffee County beat Cannon County 65 to 45 in a gym lit by emergency lights and ambient light through the glass exit doors. Against Moore County, the Raiders got 20 points from Darius Rozier and 9 from Andrew Mahaffey.  Nine different Red Raiders scored in the win....

High scores were the theme of the day on Saturday at the Tennessee Scholastic Clay Target Program(SCTP) state championship in Nashville.  The Coffee County Claybusters joined in the success as they earned a 3rd place team finish in the Senior/Varsity Division.  Additionally, a pair of Raider shooters finished in the Top 5 as individuals. The team of Austin Schaller(who hit 100 out of 100 targets), Hayden Jacobs(99), Colter Smith(97), Neil Slone(96) and Lindsey Dickson(95) shot a team score of 487 to finish 2 clays behind 1st place Middle Tennessee Christian. For the men, Austin Schaller tied for 1st place...

The Nashville Honky Tonks wrapped up the 2018 Battle for the Boot series with a 5-2 defeat Sunday night at the hands of the Round Rock Dance Halls. Round Rock’s Drew Robinson picked up right where he left off from Saturday’s game. Robinson slugged a game-tying two-out home run Saturday night and then crushed an 0-2 pitch beyond The Band Box to lead off Sunday’s ballgame. The Honky Tonks responded in the home half of the frame. Jorge Mateo singled and swiped second base. Four batters later he came around to score on a play that saw two errors committed by Round Rock...

The Nashville Honky Tonks were stunned by the Round Rock Dance Halls 2-1 in 10 innings Saturday night in front of 11,038 fans in Music City. Round Rock’s victory secured the Dance Halls the coveted Boot Trophy in the Battle for the Boot Series. The Honky Tonks pitching staff was cruising through 26 outs but Bobby Wahl yielded a solo home run to Round Rock’s Drew Robinson, which knotted the game at one run apiece and sent the game to extra innings. Wahl blew his first save of the season as he allowed a game-tying two-out home run to...

The Round Rock Dance Halls took advantage of an eighth inning error and topped the Nashville Honky Tonks, 3-2, in front of a sellout crowd of 11,071 at First Tennessee Park Friday night. With two outs and the game even at 2-2 in the top of the eighth, Dance Halls first baseman Tommy Joseph hit a bouncer to Nashville shortstop Jorge Mateo who let go of an errant throw to allow Joseph second base. The miscue came back to hurt when Andy Ibanez followed with a go-ahead, run-scoring single to give Round Rock a 3-2 lead. The win for...