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Chattanooga State baseball Tigers primed for a strong season
The usual excitement of the start of a baseball season has extra oomph this week for the Chattanooga State Tigers, who are scheduled to open against Georgia Highlands with three games Friday and Saturday in Emerson, Georgia. → Read More
Sewanee football Tigers stronger, expect to be better
In Travis Rundle's first season as Sewanee's football coach last year, the Tigers went 3-7, but the previous three years combined they were 3-27, with a 0-10 record in 2016. → Read More
Colette Murray, Darlene Werhnyak repeat Women's City golf titles
Even though golf is her job, Colette Murray doesn't get to play it much. → Read More
Chattanoogan Jamie Ann Phillips wins four-lake Arizona swim race
What if the three days before the Olympic open water marathon swim of 10 kilometers you had to swim 15.2, 14.4 and a whopping 27.3 kilometers on three other bodies of water? → Read More
Three GPS athletes set for college sports
This has been a week for Girls Preparatory School to celebrate seniors going on to college sports. → Read More
Hamilton Heights' Elizabeth Balogun named to All-USA first team
Elizabeth Balogun is from Nigeria, but in basketball she's an All-American and now first-team All-USA. → Read More
Lady Cougars, Lady Tigers earn spots in region semifinals
Cleveland State's "Elite Eight" are in the final four. → Read More
Chattanooga State basketball teams on late-season surges
In her first postseason game as a college basketball head coach, Stacey Franklin's Chattanooga State Lady Tigers lost badly in a TCCAA/NJCAA Division II tournament play-in game last March. → Read More
Eight added to Cleveland State hall of fame
After a standout baseball career at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School, Ryan Coe went to Middle Georgia, which was then a junior college, but left there after a year and was wondering where to go next. → Read More
Celie Hudson ready for healthy season for softball Mocs
It's a new year for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team and sophomore pitcher Celie Hudson. → Read More
Chattanooga State begins softball season with high hopes
Intending to end yet another season at the NJCAA national tournament in Utah, the Chattanooga State softball team begins its 2018 schedule against national-caliber competition in the Florida Panhandle. → Read More
Disabled Air Force colonel from Cleveland, Tenn., gets to ski again
In the early 2000s Shawn "Norm" Pederson was the lead pilot for the Thunderbirds, the spectacular precision flying team of the United States Air Force. → Read More
Guns and Hoses boxing benefit drawing a crowd tonight at Chattanooga Convention Center
The ninth annual Guns and Hoses Battle of the Badges boxing event matching area law-enforcement officers against firefighters and other first responders will be held tonight at the Chattanooga Convention Center. → Read More
Chattanooga FC to host FC Dallas of MLS
On Feb. 3, 2018, the local amateur team will host one of the MLS originals, FC Dallas, in a preseason "friendly" leading into Chattanooga FC's 10th season. → Read More
Senior trio lead Covenant College's Lady Scots into NCAA regional
In one sense a glorious era of Covenant College volleyball is about to end, but part of the legacy of the Lady Scots' three seniors is that they have helped build a program that should continue to thrive. → Read More
Indoor football returning to Dalton Convention Center in March
Indoor football is returning to the Dalton Convention Center. → Read More
Marathon great Meb Keflezighi coming to 65 Roses 5k
A 5-kilometer race is 23 miles shorter than a marathon, for which Meb Keflezighi is most noted, but a particular 5k in Cleveland, Tenn., earned his attention for its longevity. → Read More
Olympic silver medalist Shakur Stevenson attends boxing regional
Shakur Stevenson knows where USA Boxing regionals like the one in Chattanooga this week can lead. → Read More
Ex-heavyweight champ Ray Mercer is surprise visitor to boxing regional
The pre-tournament news conference for the USA Boxing Eastern Elite Qualifier and Regional Open Championships had a heavyweight late addition to the lineup. → Read More
Jasper Highlands Classic included national champions
Emile Abraham has been succeeding in cycling for a long time, most notably as a rider but also as a team director, a coach, a liaison between teams and sponsors and now an event manager. → Read More