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Former North Carolina head coach Carl Torbush will be named the new head coach of the East Tennessee State Buccaneers on Friday. More>>
Alexandra Brito from Brentwood and Grant Currin from Cleveland have been named the 2013 recipients of the Peyton Manning Scholarship at the University of Tennessee. The Peyton Manning Scholarship is awarded More>>
The ETSU men's golf team had two of its golfers advance to match play at the 118th Amateur Championship on Tuesday afternoon. Rising sophomore Adrian Meronk (Wroclaw, Poland) and rising junior Scott More>>
A bus carrying the Elizabethton Twins from Fort Myers to Elizabethton was involved in a fatal crash early this morning. More>>
Five things to watch for in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, as the San Antonio Spurs try to clinch their fifth title and end the Miami Heat's reign on Tuesday night: More>>
The Johnson City Cardinals met fans and signed autographs on Sunday June 16th. They start the season this Thursday. More>>
Tennessee Titans defensive back Coty Sensabaugh returned to his hometown of Kingsport for his 1st Annual Coty Sensabaugh youth football camp on Saturday June 15th. He was joined by several former teammates More>>
Mark Buehrle threw seven shutout innings, Colby Rasmus and J.P. Arencibia homered, and the Toronto Blue Jays handed the Texas Rangers their fourth straight loss, 8-0 on Friday night. Buehrle (3-4) improved More>>
Tennessee Volunteers S.H.O.T. Clinic – featuring UT head coach Cuonzo Martin, his staff and select Tennessee basketball players were in Kingsport Friday at Sullivan North High School. More>>
With the quickest run of his career and the quickest Funny Car run in 2013, Funny Car driver Del Worsham led a parade of track records en route to the qualifying lead on Friday at the Ford NHRA Thunder More>>
ETSU men's basketball head coach Murry Bartow announced Friday the addition of assistant coaches Bob Bolen and Thomas Carr to his 2013-14 staff. Bartow, who is replacing longtime assistants Mike Boyd More>>
Tennessee's Raven Chavanne and Lauren Gibson have been selected to the 18-player roster for the 2013 USA Softball Women's National Team, as announced by the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America More>>
Pat Summitt, University of Tennessee Head Women's Basketball Coach Emeritus and the winningest coach in NCAA hoops history, was honored with the Keith Jackson Eternal Flame Award by the College Sports More>>
After an impressive showing on Puerto Rico's U19 National Team at last summer, Tennessee basketball player Derek Reese is taking part in international competition once again this year. A rising sophomore, More>>
Accustomed to streaking down straightaways at speeds in excess of 300 mph, Top Fuel driver Antron Brown tested his command of left turns Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway. In town for the NHRA Ford Thunder More>>
NHRA top fuel dragster Brittany Force, the daughter of legendary driver John Force gets ready for the NHRA Ford Thunder Valley Nationals at the Bristol Dragway. More>>
NHRA drivers took time out to remember stock car driver Jason Leffler who died Wednesday night in a crash at the Bridgeport speedway. More>>
ETSU men's basketball head coach Murry Bartow announced Thursday that the Buccaneers have signed junior college forward Darius Forrest (Jackson, Miss.) to join the team's 2013-14 recruiting class. Forrest, a More>>
ETSU women's basketball head coach Brittney Ezell announced Thursday the addition of Laura Barry to the Lady Bucs' coaching staff. Barry joins the ETSU coaching staff after spending the past two seasons More>>
NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident Wednesday night at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway. The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on the Nationwide Series, was pronounced dead More>>
Funny car driver Matt Hagan already has two wins this season and would like to make it three this weekend during the NHRA Ford Thunder Valley Nationals at the Bristol dragway. More>>
After two rounds of voting by the organization, ETSU right-handed pitcher Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) was one of 58 baseball student-athletes to be placed on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers More>>
Ninety-one (91) Tusculum College student-athletes have been named to the 2012-2013 South Atlantic Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll announced league officials Wednesday. The conference had 806 student-athletes More>>
Chris Cook signs with ETSUAustin Dayton signs with LMURae Neilson signs with King U. More>>
Tim Tebow and Tom Brady took turns, zipping passes over the middle and lofting tosses toward the corner of the end zone. More>>
The last time the ETSU Buccaneer basketball team was in the Southern Conference, they had just won the tournament championship and advanced to the big dance where they fell to Cincinnati in the opening More>>
The City of Elizabethton, in partnership with the Elizabethton/Carter County Chamber of Commerce, will honor Elizabethton native and Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten for his athletic accomplishments More>>
After arguably its finest season in program history, the national finalist Tennessee softball team was ranked No. 2 in both the final USA Today/NFCA Division I softball poll and the final ESPN.com/USA Softball More>>
A total of 12 teams from seven Atlantic Sun Conference schools posted perfect scores and every team in the conference earned above the standard multi-year APR score for the 2011-12 academic year in the More>>
Seven Atlantic Sun Track and Field student-athletes were named Second-Team All-American by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Tuesday. Jacksonville's Bienna Freeman More>>
The University of Tennessee announced Academic Progress Rates (APR) for its athletics teams on Tuesday, including three programs that received APR Public Recognition Awards for posting a multi-year APR More>>
Kerry Doane was drafted by the Cleveland Indians as the 711th overall pick. The former ETSU Bucs pitcher led nation with 12 complete games. He earned 13 wins and helpd the Bucs to the NCAA Tournament More>>
For the 19th year the Elizabethton golf course will play host to one of the top amateur golf tournaments in the region More>>
Tennessee has received a lot of attention from the national preview magazines released this week. Junior linebacker A.J. Johnson and senior tackle Ja'Wuan James are featured on covers. Johnson and Antonio More>>
ESPN's exclusive coverage of the Women's College World Series (WCWS) ended with a national championship title for Oklahoma over Tennessee and record-breaking metered market ratings in both home towns. More>>
ETSU women's basketball head coach Brittney Ezell has been selected as one of 30 coaches from across the country to participate in the Center for Coaching Excellence by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association More>>
After an amazing season and an incredible week at the 2013 Women's College World Series, the national runner-up Tennessee softball team received a warm welcome home on Wednesday as the Lady Vols' bus pulled More>>
East Tennessee State University is hoping to name a new football coach no later than June 15th and one name that appears at the head of the class is former Tar Heel coach Carl Torbush. More>>
The Tennessee baseball team added four junior college transfers to its 2013 signing class on Wednesday, including three right-handed pitchers and one of the nation's top outfielders. The Volunteers More>>
The ETSU women's 4x100 meter relay team notched a sixth-place finish in their heat and an 18th-place overall standing with a time of 45.06 in semifinal action at the NCAA Division I 2013 Outdoor Track More>>
Too big to be contained in just one day – or even one state – the 2013 Niswonger Children's Hospital Golf Classic will be better than ever this year, with new venues, new events, and new celebrity guests More>>
AP Graphics BankKentucky Derby winner Orb has been made the morning-line favorite in a field of 14 horses entered for the Belmont Stakes. More>>
Gate City vs Glenvar (baseball)James River vs John Battle (softball)Gate City vs Galax (soccer)James River vs Gate City (soccer) More>>
Jackie Bradley Jr. hit his first career home run and finished with three RBIs, and the Boston Red Sox set season highs for hits and runs in a 17-5 rout of the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night. Stephen More>>
The Tennessee softball team's season came to a close on Tuesday as the Lady Vols fought hard, but came up short in a 4-0 loss to Oklahoma in Game 2 of the Women's College World Series Championship Series. More>>
Tennessee High Lady Viking Chloe Neil signed a national letter of intent with Motlow State Community College. More>>
NHRA drivers Allen Johnson, Ron Capps and Doug Herbert were at the Bristol Dragway to talk about the upcoming Ford Thunder Valley National on father day weekend. More>>
Oklahoma Sooners Lauren Chamberlain hit a walk-off 2-run homerun in extra inning to help Oklahoma win 5-3 in game one of the three game series. More>>
Almost a month ago I gave you some names that would probably get some consideration in the search for a new football coach at ETSU, since then some names have dropped out. More>>
Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) is one of six finalists named for the inaugural Gregg Olson Award, which was announced Monday by the voting committee. The honor is to be given to college baseball's More>>
Tennessee's Raven Chavanne and Lauren Gibson are among 32 invitees for the 2013 USA Softball Women's National Team Selection Camp, as announced by the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and More>>
Jason Kidd became one of the best by making others better. More>>
Craig Reesor tied a Tillinghast Tournament record shooting 8 under 64 on Sunday to win the Tillinghast Invitational More>>
Georgia Tech scored a run in three of the first five innings and senior right-hander Buck Farmer tossed six scoreless frames as the Yellow Jackets eliminated the ETSU baseball team from the Nashville Regional More>>
Former ETSU player and current Atlanta Falcons head coach Mike Smith was the keynote speaker at the Bucs football and friends foundation reunion weekend and annual meeting More>>
The inaugural running of the Built Ford Tough Tennessee Motocross National held at Muddy Creek Raceway in Blountville, Tennessee was a success. It was round three of the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross C More>>
A two-out walkoff single up the middle by Tory Lewis handed the University of Tennessee softball team the win over Washington on Saturday in Game 5 of the Women's College World Series. Tennessee will More>>
First baseman Bobby Melley had four hits and an RBI to lift the Connecticut Huskies to a 5-2 victory over Virginia Tech in an NCAA Blacksburg Regional game on Friday. The Huskies (35-26) had 16 hits More>>
Vanderbilt got all the offense they needed in the bottom of the first and the second-ranked Commodores cruised to a 9-1 victory over ETSU in front of a sell-out crowd of 3,503 fans Friday night at Hawkins More>>
Honaker vs Gate City (baseball)Lebanon vs Gate City (soccer)John Battle vs Gate City (soccer) More>>
ETSU women's basketball head coach Brittney Ezell announced Friday the additions of Brittany Burkhardt and Nikki Davis to the Lady Bucs' coaching staff. Burkhardt joins the ETSU coaching staff after More>>
Gate City vs Wise CentralLebanon vs John BattleJohn Battle vs Virginia High More>>
East Tennessee State University, Mercer University and the Virginia Military Institute have been extended invitations to join the Southern Conference beginning July 1, 2014, SoCon Commissioner John Iamarino More>>
The 2013 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing, features the fastest riders on the planet in the world's most prestigious motocross championship. For over 40 years, these athletes More>>
Using three-run first and a four-run sixth, the University of Tennessee softball team handed Florida its worst loss of the year in a 9-2 win in Game 2 of the Women's College World Series on Thursday. Tennessee More>>
Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) keeps adding more accolades to his resume. Two days after being one of 30 semifinalists for the Golden Spikes Award, the senior East Tennessee State University pitcher More>>
Tennessee's Raven Chavanne, Lauren Gibson and Madison Shipman were named to the 2013 NFCA Division I All-American first team, as announced by the NFCA on Wednesday. The four conferences that will participate More>>
Hall of Famer Karl Malone is returning to the Utah Jazz to help develop the team's two young big men. More>>
The East Tennessee State University Buccaneer baseball team departed for the "Music City," where they'll face Vanderbilt in the NCAA East Regional. More>>
A former Tennessee volleyball player has written a post on her blog backing up her ex-teammates' accusations that embattled Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann abused them verbally and emotionally More>>
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier fondly recalls one of his best jabs. The coach says, "Citrus and UT, now that's original." The former Florida coach is referring to his late-1990s joke about rival More>>
Gate City vs Virginia HighGate City vs Virginia High (softball)Grundy vs John BattleHonaker vs Virginia High (soccer) More>>
East Tennessee State University senior right-handed pitcher Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) was named one of 30 semifinalists for the Golden Spikes Award, announced USA Baseball on Tuesday. Doane – More>>
A high ranking official at the University of Tennessee has voiced her support for Rutgers' incoming athletic director Julie Hermann, who is facing allegations she verbally abused players while she was More>>
The Southeastern Conference's basketball tournament is ready to settle down. And Nashville, Tenn., could be home. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive says league athletic directors voted unanimously to "authorize More>>
Just a few days remain until the inaugural Built Ford Tough Tennessee National from Muddy Creek Raceway in Blountville, Tenn., brings the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship to the Southwest for the first More>>
Three more student-athletes have committed to attend Tusculum College and play volleyball for the Pioneers announced TC head coach Michael Robinson. This next group of signees includes: Jaida Allen, Danielle More>>
ETSU baseball coach Tony Skole talks about the Bucs first NCAA Regional birth since 1981. More>>
The ETSU baseball team won the school's first ASUN baseball championship defeating Kennesaw State 7-2. Senior Kerry Doane pitched the bucs two the win allowing just two runs. He pitched his 13th complete More>>
ETSU used an rbi single by senior Andrew Green in the bottom of the 9th to beat USC Upstate 4-3 in the ASUN baseball tournament. The Bucs will now play either Kennesaw State or North Florida Sunday at More>>
Chad Pinder drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to help Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 3-2 on Friday in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, clinching an appearance in Sunday's final. More>>
Walters State lost to Spartanburgh Methodist 19-11 in the opening round of the Junior College World Series. The Senators play in a losers bracket game Sunday at 2:00 eastern time. Sophomore Jared Allen More>>
Natalia Revis has only been running for 6 years. In that time she has gone from a two time state champion at University High to a corner stone of the Milligan Buffaloes track and field team. Newschannel More>>
Tri-Cities Christian athletes Ayena Jordan and Ryan Hardin sign national letters of intent. More>>
The "Comeback Bucs" were at it yet again. Trailing by three through four innings of play, the ETSU baseball team continued to fight and eventually tied it at four on freshman Kevin Phillips' (St. Louis, More>>
A key two-out, two-run single by Cheyanne Tarango and strong efforts in the circle from both Renfroe sisters led Tennessee to a 3-2 win over defending national champion Alabama in the opening game of the More>>
Unicoi co. vs East HamiltonUniversity High vs Whitwell More>>
Southern Conference officials paid East Tennessee State University a visit, before they approved the school to re-join the league for the 2nd time. The SoCon commissioner wanted to the new sports facilities More>>
Junior Tyler Stepp (Dandridge, Tenn.) achieved his personal best on the biggest stage of his career with a second-place leap of 7.79m in the men's long jump at the NCAA East Region Preliminaries on Thursday More>>
Fierce thunderstorms forced another schedule change to the 2013 Atlantic Sun Baseball Championship, resulting in the ETSU/Mercer game being moved to Friday at 10 a.m., at Stetson's Melching Field. The More>>
Baseball and softball TSSAA state tournament game results More>>
Last weekend it was Mason Hershey (Altoona, Pa.) providing the late-inning heroics, and a few days later fellow senior Alex Reynolds (Johnson City, Tenn.) came through with his biggest hit of his Buccaneer More>>
Tennessee basketball player Jarnell Stokes is among 24 elite talents invited to participate in the 2013 Men's U19 World Championship Team training camp, USA Basketball announced Wednesday. One of the More>>
The semifinalists for the inaugural Gregg Olson Award were named on Wednesday, and ETSU senior right-handed pitcher Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) was one of the forty-six players to make the list, More>>
Northeast Tennessee results in baseball, softball and soccer from the TSSAA state tournament More>>
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