Nation’s dominant program post-COVID, the Tennessee Vols seeking elusive title
The Vols are trying to slug their way to two more victories to reach a third College World Series in four years and second straight.
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Sports Tennessee will host Evansville; full super regionals schedule
The best-of-three super regionals open Friday and Saturday. The eight winners advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 14.
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Sports Tennessee eliminates Southern Miss, advances to super regionals
Tennessee advances to the super regionals and will face Evansville, with the series beginning Friday or Saturday in Knoxville.
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Transportation & Logistics FedEx will transport National Zoo arrivals by ‘Panda Express’
Memphis-based FedEx will transport the giant pandas from China to Washington by the end of the year via a FedEx Express Boeing 777-Freighter, known as the FedEx Panda Express.
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Sports Mississippi State eliminated by Virginia in regional
The Bulldogs' 2024 season comes to an end with a loss to Virginia in Charlottesville Regional.
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Sports Mississippi State falls 5-4 to Virginia in NCAA baseball regional
Virginia scores game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth. Mississippi State plays St. John’s Sunday in an elimination game in the Charlottesville Regional.
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Sports Mississippi State wins on three-run walk-off home run
The Bulldogs (39-21) will take on Virginia, which advanced by beating Pennsylvania earlier in the day.
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Sports Amick belts three-run home run, Tennessee tops Northern Kentucky
No. 1 overall seed Tennessee will play Indiana Saturday at 6 p.m. CT in Knoxville.
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State Government Federal government, states sue Ticketmaster over alleged monopoly
Around 70% of tickets for major concert venues in the U.S. are sold through Ticketmaster, according to data in a federal lawsuit filed by consumers in 2022. The company owns or controls more than 265 of North America’s concert venues.
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May 2024
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Arlington UVA to pay $9M for shooting that killed 3, including 1 from Arlington High
The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students, including former Arlington High football player Devin Chandler who died.
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Sports SEC gathers to sort through consequences of settlement, comes away with more questions than answers
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said college football is awkwardly stuck between two worlds: Trending toward professionalism but still rooted in a model tied to higher education.
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Sports SEC’s 8- or 9-game conference schedule debate on hold
After much discussion last year, the SEC locked in a short-term solution by agreeing to go with eight games for this season and next, but leaving open the possibility to change it in 2026.
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Metro New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts
Donald Trump has been convicted in his New York hush money trial, a landmark jury verdict making him the first former American president to be found guilty of felony crimes in the nation’s nearly 250-year history.
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Sports MLB has new career, season batting leader after Negro Leagues statistics incorporated
With the Negro leagues' statistics added to Major League Baseball, Gibson’s .372 batting average surpassed Ty Cobb’s .367. At age 18, Gibson played his first professional game for the Memphis Red Sox in 1930.
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Sports Roster sizes, the future of walk-ons and other topics on minds of SEC’s football coaches
Southeastern Conference football coaches are bracing for the impact of a potential downsizing of rosters around the NCAA.
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Education Logo Brands adds University of Memphis to strategic partnership program
The Tennessee-based company will exclusively produce a variety of merchandise categories, such as tents, chairs, soft-sided coolers and more, under contracts ranging from five to 10 years.
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Sports Tennessee Vols baseball gets top seed for NCAA Tournament; CWS pairings
The Tennessee Vols, fresh off their SEC baseball tournament title, were selected Monday as the top seed for the 2024 College Baseball Tournament.
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Sports Tennessee Lady Vols fall to Alabama in softball super regional
Tennessee won the best-of-three opener Friday but fell 3-2 in 14 innings Saturday and then lost Sunday’s deciding game, 4-1.
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Sports Tennessee Vols win SEC baseball title over LSU
Tennessee (49-11), the regular-season SEC champions, notched their fifth conference championship since the tournament began in 1977, most recently winning it in 2022 and including three straight from 1993-95.
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Sports NCAA, leagues sign off on plan that includes paying athletes
Student-athletes could start receiving millions of dollars as soon as the 2025 fall semester.
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Sports Rachel Heck helps Stanford win women’s NCAA golf title
Former St. Agnes standout delivers the final point and helps Stanford win its second NCAA championship in three years.
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State Government Tennessee to become first state to offer free diapers for Medicaid families
The recent funding approval comes as public health advocates say that families are increasingly struggling to afford enough diapers for their children.
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Education Tennessee is the latest state to mandate automatic defibrillators at high schools
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday to celebrate Tennessee’s new law requiring all high schools to keep an automated external defibrillator available during classes, athletic practices and games.
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Sports Olive Branch’s Ricky Stenhouse could face suspension after throwing punch
The NASCAR driver threw a right hook at Kyle Busch, and suddenly, an otherwise boring All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway had NASCAR fans buzzing.
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State Government Gov. Lee OKs bill allowing death penalty for child-rape convictions
The new Tennessee law, which goes into effect July 1, authorizes the state to pursue capital punishment when an adult is convicted of aggravated rape of a child.
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