Football

With the completion of the BlueCross Bowls back in December, the seemingly endless offseason officially began for Blount County’s four football programs. Have no fear. The wait is almost over. With the third weekend in August serving as opening week ...

Cody Bowers would be so proud. Three years after the former Maryville College assistant football coach died tragically in an on-campus automobile accident, the high school passing camp begun to honor his memory is enjoying unprecedented success. The Maryville College ...

Jim Taylor! It doesn’t get any bigger when it comes to the Green Bay Packers. Huge. Randall Cobb’s wait to the second day of April’s NFL Draft might have been a frustrating one, but the Packers made sure the former ...

Maryville College will host the 2011 East Tennessee 7 on 7 Perimeter Passing Day on July 16. Games will begin at 10 a.m. and conclude by 6 p.m. The event was organized in memory of Cody Bowers, a Scots coach ...

It was brilliant, simple, and it worked like a charm. The Tennessee Future Stars seventh-graders went to the locker room at halftime down two touchdowns last Saturday at Carson-Newman, but things were far from as bad as they seemed. Tennessee’s ...

Dylan Shinsky’s got so many moves. And on one first-quarter scoring run last Saturday at Carson-Newman, the Kentucky Future Stars eighth-graders got a look at pretty much all of them.

It felt right, so Patton Robinette decided not to wait. The highly sought after Maryville High School quarterback announced a verbal commitment to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday morning, Maryville coach George Quarles confirmed. Robinette, ...

Former Maryville High School and University of Tennessee football standout Aaron Douglas was found dead on Wednesday night at the age of 21.

Two years after Derrick Brodus gave up football for the sport he said he truly loved, the former Alcoa soccer star is once again pounding field goals through the uprights, this time for the University of Tennessee. Brodus performed well ...

They began their Alcoa careers four years ago with a family legacy as big as house hanging over their heads. On national signing day Wednesday afternoon, Darrell Warren and Taharin were joined by Tornado teammates Derek Evans, Austin Tallant and ...

When you really think about, the approach most major college and university football teams take to recruiting kickers makes no sense at all. Record-setting Maryville High School placekicker Zach Sharp signed a National Letter of Intent on national signing day ...

Alcoa standout Darrell Warren has committed to play football at the University of Kentucky.

The Alcoa and Maryville football teams will begin the 2011 football season on Saturday. A week later, when the two schools renew one of the state’s oldest and fiercest rivalries, they’ll stay with format. The defending state champion Rebels and ...

Alex Rouse has taken the prolific skills he developed at Maryville High School around the world as part of his journey in professional football. Rouse spent this past summer scrambling out of the pocket and slinging touchdowns just south of ...

Evan Brown sure didn’t play like an alternate. A late addition to the East roster, the Heritage High School senior emerged one of the stars of the day at the Toyota East-West All-Star Classic last Saturday at Carson-Newman College’s Burke-Tarr ...