Tennessee beats Florida State to reach CWS finals
The Volunteers will play another SEC team, Texas A&M, in the three-game championship series beginning Saturday.
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Dalton Knecht has always carried a chip on his shoulder throughout his multi-school basketball journey. Feeling overlooked has powered him along his Northeastern Junior College, Northern Colorado and Tennessee stops.
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Sports Willie Mays, Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ has died at 93
In 2011 Mays was honored by the Memphis Grizzlies and he received the National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award during halftime of the team’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day game with the Chicago Bulls.
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Baseball’s top minor leagues, including the International League the Memphis Redbirds play in, are switching to a challenge system full-time for their test of robot umpires.
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Music Singer Justin Timberlake charged with DWI, released from custody
Memphis-area native and Grammy Award-winning Justin Timberlake was arrested while driving on New York’s Long Island.
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Sports Gabrielle Rose proves age is just a number as she competes in US swim trials at 46
At the age of 46, Rose is by far the oldest athlete at the meet — earning her place two decades removed from her last appearance.
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Sports Vols knock four home in 9th inning for comeback win in College World Series Game 1
Dylan Dreiling’s single into the left-center gap drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the ninth inning as Tennessee rallied to beat Florida State 12-11, capping a night when Christian Moore became the first player in 68 years to hit for the cycle at the College World Series.
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Sports Tennessee controls bracket at College World Series
Kavares Tears and Reese Chapman homered, Drew Beam limited North Carolina to one hit over five shutout innings, and Tennessee took control of its bracket at the College World Series with a 6-1 win.
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Public Safety Holly Bobo murder case returns to court
A judge heard arguments Friday as part of an attempt by Zachary Adams to receive a new trial in the kidnapping, rape and killing of 20-year-old Bobo who disappeared from her rural home in 2011.
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Sports Tennessee, Virginia, Florida expect experience from ‘23 CWS to provide edge
The College World Series opens Friday with North Carolina playing Virginia and Florida State facing Tennessee in Bracket 1.
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Metro Southern Baptist Convention delegates narrowly reject female pastor ban, express alarm over IVF
Southern Baptist delegates gathered in Indianapolis to vote on a proposed ban on female pastors and pass resolution urging caution over the use of in vitro fertilization technology.
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Health Care Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year.
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Metro Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in Memphis 7 case
The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for the federal government to protect workers’ jobs when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns.
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Sports College World Series might offer view of future with only SEC, ACC teams
The CWS opens Friday, and for the first time since the event expanded to eight teams in 1950, only two conferences will be represented on the college game’s biggest stage.
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Memphis Grizzlies Jerry West, a 3-time Hall of Fame selection and the NBA logo, dies at 86
West worked in the front office of the Memphis Grizzlies from 2002-2007. He was also general manager of eight NBA championship teams with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Metro The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
Lawson organized the sanitation workers strike that fatefully drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis. Lawson said he was at first paralyzed and forever saddened by King’s assassination.
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Sports Tennessee Vols hit seven home runs, advance to College World Series
Tennessee (55-12) advances to the College World Series for the second straight season and seventh time overall.
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Sports Evansville beats Tennessee 10-8 to stay alive at Knoxville Super Regional
Kip Fougerousse, Cal McInnis and Brendan Hord each hit a home run to help Evansville beat No. 1 national-seed Tennessee 10-8 to avoid elimination at the best-of-three Knoxville Super Regional.
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Sports Ole Miss sprinter dominates, Arkansas takes team crown at NCAA track championships
McKenzie Long of Ole Miss captured titles in three events. Also, a former Whitehaven High School star earns All-American honors in men’s championships.
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Sports UT baseball wins super regional game 1 against Evansville
The University of Tennessee Volunteer (54-11), playing in the university’s fourth consecutive super regional, can advance to the College World Series with a victory over Evansville (38-25) on Saturday.
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Public Safety Memphis veteran charged with murder may have targeted others
Memphis police are investigating whether a U.S. Army veteran charged with killing a homeless man has targeted other homeless people in the city, a spokesperson said.
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Sports Expanded College Football Playoff will begin with 1st-round game Dec. 20
The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game Dec. 20 and conclude with the title game one month later in Atlanta.
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Sports 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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