Mike Strange

July means lists. The Maxwell Award list, the Doak Walker Award list, etc. Predict the stars of the 2012 college football season.

Despite his thin mid-major resume, a big-name football school in a BCS league took a chance on him. After back-to-back six-win seasons he was feeling pressure going into his third year.

ALCOA — They're in college basketball's version of solitary confinement. But they're not marking off the days on the cell-block wall.

Football brought Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC. The basketball Tigers and Aggies got dragged along in the bargain.

All eyes on Omaha, please. There is one NCAA championship left to decide and either the SEC or the Pac 12 is going to win it.

If Derek Dooley were still a lawyer, who's to say he wouldn't be just as generous supporting folks like the Boys & Girls Clubs.

Last month, for the first time in more than two years, Yemi Makanjuola got to go home. Home is Lagos, Nigeria, and it's long way off, literally and figuratively.

Everybody wants Tennessee football to get back to the '90s. It wasn't just a good time to be a Vol and a Vols fan, it was a great time.

Here's to you, Miss Robinson. It's been awhile, so Tennessee's only regular-season SEC title of the school year may have slipped a few minds.

Getting swept at Mississippi State, that's a brutal weekend. Having to kick one of your best players off the team, not a fun day. Local hotshot signs with an SEC rival. Ouch.

As the SEC's final hours as a 12-team league play out, the focus has already shifted to a bigger and presumably better future.

When you have the best conference in America, more is better.

The rhythmic whack, whack, whack of hammers rang out through South Knoxville on Saturday morning.

On the walk from my distant parking spot to the stadium Sunday, it was obvious all the ingredients for a party were present.

Mike Strange visited with University of Tennessee Vice chancellor/athletic director Dave Hart on a wide range of topics.