KNOXVILLE -- Zac Stolz from Chattanooga is tied for fourth after the first round of the 11th Tennessee Match Play Championship at the Holston Hills Country Club. Stolz shot 4-under 68 on Thursday. Brentwood's Brendon Caballero leads the tournament after the first day with an 8-under 64. Alcoa's Ron Waters leads the State Senior Match Play with a 67 in the first rond. 11th ... (click for more)

Signal Mountain's Eagles have been ranked No. 6 in Murphy Fair's Class 4A preseason high school football poll. The poll was recently announced in Fair's Tennessee High School Football magazine. Despite heavy graduation losses, the Falcons of Fulton High School in Knoxville are still the solid choice of 4A coaches to again repeat as state champions in their classification. ... (click for more)

 EPB announced Thursday that it has filed a petition to the FCC "in an effort to respond to neighboring communities’ requests for access to the company’s gigabit enabled high-speed Internet service." Officials said, "EPB offers high-speed Internet access, video programming and voice services using a fiber optic communications network that allows the company to deliver these ... (click for more)

The developers of the Black Creek project at Aetna Mountain said Thursday they "complied precisely by the rules when we applied for and received approval of the TIF district." Doug Stein said the group plans to continue on with the project, which he said earlier would include the creation of a small town on a huge undeveloped tract on the mountain above Black Creek (formerly ... (click for more)

Collegedale has done some wonderful things for its residents.  The Greenway is a perfect example of money well spent on helping to give her residents the opportunity to improve their lives, at least from a health standpoint. Having taught at Wolftever Creek for a decade plus, I was fortunate to have opportunity to take my classes on walks from time to time.  It provided ... (click for more)

Jonathan Jensen and Brian Turner are two very smart guys. Not long ago the two sports researchers at Ohio State authored a story that appeared in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports that focused on the most successful college football teams in the country and, earlier this week, a writer named Ben Cohen broke it down in understandable terms for a fascinating Wall Street ... (click for more)