Stephen Yeargin

I parked the car around 3 p.m. to start my afternoon excursion. I knew a bit about what I wanted to do: catch the pre-game festivities in front of the Sommet Center, possibly catch a bit of the UT/Florida game, pick up my hockey tickets and watch the Nashville Predators take on the Columbus Blue [...]

I have started to notice the more subtle aspects of my daily commute lately. Having made the exact same trek every weekday morning for the last two years will do that. The cashiers have not yet started greeting me by name, but I am relatively sure they see me on a more regular basis than [...]

Fall weekends are notoriously busy. I had been looking forward to heading back to Martin for homecoming for about a month or two. I serve on my college fraternity‘s Alumni & Volunteer Corporation, so the focus of the day trip was to make it for our annual meeting. We also met with the Communications Department [...]

For the first time in at least six years, I am not participating in a fantasy football league (FFL). It is not that I do not have the time (well, at least that is not the principle reason), but instead that I did not want to put forth the effort of badgering the league commissioner [...]

Sports analogies run rampant through our society, often trivializing big moments and minor setbacks. We will say that a speaker “knocked it out of the park” when they receive a standing ovation or say that he or she “fumbled” when a joke is met with uneasy faces. But I am a sports fan, and cliche [...]

Colleges and universities across the country are beginning their fall semester this and the coming weeks. Most middle Tennessee schools returned to classes a week or so ago, effectively ending what most of us call “summer.” The calendar will hold that summer has more than a month remaining, but the things that define our concept [...]

Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize Former Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel, for his work in raising awareness of accelerated global climate change. His award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award from [...]

I’m sitting in the UT-area Hilton hotel in Knoxville, Tenn. on a computer that by all accounts should probably have stayed at home. I mean, had it been stolen, I’m not sure I’d really bother to report it to the cops. But I digress, poor Samantha’s laptop has been dead for a lot longer. Both [...]