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From the HERE City State DeskKNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two 5-1 teams meet at Neyland Stadium on Saturday when No. 14 Tennessee welcomes No. 6 Alabama for the latest Third Saturday in October, with a 3:30 p.m. Eastern kickoff on ABC. Each side carries a single loss into the rivalry. The…
From the HERE City State DeskFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The No. 9 Tennessee volleyball team starts a two-stop SEC road trip Friday night at Barnhill Arena against Arkansas, with first serve at 8 p.m. Eastern, before heading to Oklahoma for a 3 p.m. Sunday match at McCasland Field House. SEC Network+…
From the HERE City State DeskBRENTWOOD, Tenn. — After ending a long NCAA Tournament wait last spring, Tennessee State enters the 2026-27 season as the team to beat in the Ohio Valley Conference, according to the league's preseason poll released Thursday. Head coaches and communications directors around the league gave…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — League referees are putting flopping at the top of the 2026-27 enforcement list, and a preseason whistle on Knicks guard Jalen Brunson showed how quickly the standard can bite. During a Madison Square Garden exhibition on Oct. 12 against Minnesota, Brunson took…
From the HERE City National DeskBETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene University announced Thursday the death of Crimson Storm safety Tyler Ulrich, a week after he left an away game on a stretcher, and scrubbed this weekend trip to Southwestern Oklahoma State. Ulrich was 21. He went down Saturday in Arkadelphia,…
From the HERE City National DeskLOS ANGELES — Milwaukee finished off Los Angeles, the two-time reigning World Series champs, on Thursday night, taking National League Championship Series Game 4 by a 6-4 score at Dodger Stadium and completing a four-game sweep that sends the franchise back to the Fall Classic…
From the HERE City National DeskDENVER — Wil Lutz drilled a 53-yard kick in overtime Thursday night, and the Denver Broncos escaped with a 17-14 result against Seattle at Mile High Stadium after JaQuan McMillian picked off Sam Darnold on the first sudden-death drive. Seattle opened overtime and faced third-and-7…
From the HERE City National DeskMINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota coach Niko Medved spent more than seven minutes after the Thursday exhibition ripping the NCAA for how it rolled out a five-seasons-in-five-years eligibility model, saying the timing and legal fallout have left hundreds of players and coaches in limbo. Medved said he…
Education
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal court action Thursday cleared Tennessee to keep pressing its takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, ending a pause that had frozen the state's oversight timeline. U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. issued the order a day after Judge Melanie Taylor Jefferson stepped aside. With that block…
Events
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Botanic Garden in Memphis, Tenn., will glow again this winter as Holiday Wonders at the Garden comes back for select evenings from Nov. 27 through Dec. 30, this time spreading its lights into the Herb Garden. The light show, presented by Memphis Light, Gas and…
From the HERE City State Desk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's tougher hemp law is shrinking the retail stores and suppliers it regulates, and state tax collections from hemp products are coming in at a small fraction of what budget writers expected. The numbers from the Department of Finance and Administration are stark. July, the first month…
From the HERE City State Desk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee closed out the summer with its jobless rate parked at 3.4%, the September reading from the state labor department shows, the third month in a row at that mark and tied for the lowest level the state has posted this year, while employers kept adding jobs.…
From the HERE City National Desk
BANGKOK — The International Monetary Fund says the world economy has held up better than expected against war, an energy shock and trade fights, but it is warning finance ministers gathered in Bangkok this week that the cushions behind that resilience are wearing thin. In its latest World Economic Outlook,…
Politics
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — State Rep. Justin J. Pearson has taken Memphis and City Council Chairwoman Jana Swearengen-Washington to federal court, saying a ban that locked him and other speakers out of upcoming council sessions crosses First Amendment lines. The case landed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District…
News
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A proposed one-year pause on new data centers in Memphis is still waiting on a final vote, after the City Council chose this week to put off the decision for a second time. Council members voted 7-5 to postpone the 12-month moratorium, which Councilman J.B. Smiley Jr.…
From the HERE City State Desk
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Federal authorities stopped a suspicious package that had been mailed to the Tennessee Division of Elections before it could arrive, Secretary of State Tre Hargett announced Thursday, the second day of early voting for the Nov. 3 general election. Hargett said the package was intercepted in transit…
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