It was a climb no one expected. On March 6, East Tennessee State University, the fifth-best team in its league, won the Atlantic Sun Conference and earned an automatic NCAA Tournament bid. ...more

March 18, 2010

After winning just four games in its first two seasons of varsity competition, the Lennard High boys basketball program had its breakout season last year. ...more

January 6, 2010

For nearly nine straight years Ridgewood's Gary Anders reaped the benefits of having what every high school basketball coach loves to possess: a dominant big man in the middle. ...more

December 19, 2009

When Newsome High School's band director stepped onto the field last fall, he knew he was sticking his neck out. ...more

March 4, 2009

Abdul Rao, the University of South Florida dean recorded on a security camera taking a student's bicycle, says he will resign his post Friday. ...more

February 17, 2009

Whenever a program puts together six FHSAA tournament-qualifying teams in seven years - including three straight - the expectation to reach that perennial status quo just sort of comes naturally. ...more

November 29, 2008

Sammie Lower's not worried about tougher pitching, bigger stadiums or the pressures of playing ball at the Division-I level. ...more

November 14, 2008

Law student Mike Stewart, a 26-year-old black man about to take a bus ride into civil rights history, wonders whether he and his peers would have had the grit to fight the battles their fathers' generation fought. ...more

July 19, 2008

Born off North Mobley Road on July 4, 1924, Mordecai Walker has seen his hometown go through its fair share of transformations. ...more

May 24, 2008

LaShawn Davis didn't even consider trying out for the East Bay High School boys basketball team before last year. ...more

December 8, 2007