Tennessee running backs coach Jerry Mack spoke to the media to look back on the Ole Miss loss and ahead to Saturday’s game at Alabama.
WATCH: Jerry Mack “Really impressed with the way Jabari (Small) went out and competed”
Kacey Musgraves is the “Breadwinner” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Kacey Musgraves recently released her album star-crossed…
This week Kacey appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, singing “breadwinner” from the new project.
Watch her performance here…
Photo Credit: Sophia Matinazad
Jordan Davis & Luke Bryan Get Dirty With An Acoustic Version of Their Song
Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan have a Top-20 (and climbing) hit on their hands with “Buy Dirt.”
Sharing the story behind the song, Jordan says, “‘Buy Dirt’ is a song that came to me a couple of months into the pandemic. We couldn’t tour, music, everything was at a standstill. I came to the realization of man, all you need is your faith, your family and your friends. And music’s great and I love it and I’m happy I get to do it, but at the end of the day those are three things that I need to always keep at the top of my list, and ‘Buy Dirt’ is my kind of pledge to that.”
Jordan shares that he thought Luke Bryan was the perfect guy to join him on the song, “When I wrote ‘Buy Dirt,’ I knew he could relate to the song’s message. I took a chance and asked him to join me on the recording, and he said ‘yes’.”
Now the pair have released an acoustic version of the song as well, check out “Buy Dirt.”
Photo Courtesy of Jordan Davis
Chandler Named to Bob Cousy Award Preseason Watch List
Tennessee basketball freshman point guard Kennedy Chandler has been named to the 20-man Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award Preseason Watch List, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced Monday.
Now in its 19th year, the Bob Cousy Award annually honors the top point guard in college basketball. Chandler is the only true freshman included on the 20-player preseason watch list.
Rated by ESPN as the nation’s top point guard in the Class of 2021, Chandler earned All-America honors from McDonald’s, Spalding and Sports Illustrated after leading Sunrise Christian Academy (Kan.) to the championship game of the prestigious GEICO Nationals tournament in April.
Over the summer, Chandler was part of the 12-man USA Basketball Men’s U19 Team that captured a gold medal at the 2021 FIBA U19 World Cup in Riga, Latvia.
In late January, the watch list of 20 players for the 2022 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award will be narrowed to 10, before decreasing to five in late February. In March, a winner will be selected.
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Vols Ranked #18 in Preseason AP Poll
Tennessee basketball is set to open the season as a top-25 team, as the Vols came in ranked No. 18 in the Preseason AP Top 25, which was released Monday.
It marks the third time in the past four seasons that Tennessee has been ranked preseason and the 16th time in program history that the Vols have been ranked as a preseason top-25 team.
Tennessee is scheduled to face at least eight of the AP Preseason ranked teams this season, including top-five teams No. 4 Villanova and No. 5 Texas. Additionally, the Vols are scheduled to play two games apiece against No. 10 Kentucky and No. 16 Arkansas.
Overall, 12 of Tennessee’s 31 regular season games are against teams either ranked or receiving votes in the preseason AP Poll.
Coming off of a season in which it recorded a fourth-place SEC finish and earned a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament, Tennessee is set to add the nation’s second-ranked recruiting class as well as return a group of experienced veterans to this year’s squad, led by super-senior forward John Fulkerson and guards Victor Bailey Jr., Josiah-Jordan James and Santiago Vescovi.
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Candace Parker, LVFLs Celebrate 2021 WNBA Title
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A trio of former Lady Vols are celebrating a 2021 WNBA title. Players Candace Parker and Diamond DeShields and assistant coach Tonya Edwards contributed to the No. 6 seed Chicago Sky’s 3-1 series win over No. 5 seed Phoenix on Sunday afternoon at Wintrust Arena in the Windy City.
The Sky previously defeated No. 7 seed Dallas in the first round, No. 3 Minnesota in the second round and No. 1 Connecticut in the semifinals to advance to the WNBA Finals ’21 presented by Google.
Parker, who played her high school ball at suburban Naperville Central before going on to a stellar career at the University of Tennessee, moved from the Los Angeles Sparks to the hometown Sky during the offseason after spending the first 13 years of her professional career on the West Coast and winning a 2016 title there and notching a runner-up showing in 2017.
The 6-foot-4 forward turned in 16 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and four steals in game four to close out the Mercury with an 80-74 come-from-behind triumph. DeShields added two points and two rebounds in 10 minutes of duty for the Sky, who trailed by as many as 14 in the contest and were down 72-65 with 4:42 to go.
Edwards, who joined head coach James Wade’s staff in March, is enjoying her second WNBA title as an assistant. She also won her first WNBA crown with Parker while the two were with Los Angeles in 2016.
Parker played three seasons at Tennessee from 2005-2008, winning NCAA titles in the final two of those and being named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after those victories. DeShields was at UT from 2015-17, while Edwards starred for the Lady Vols from 1986-90, helping the Big Orange win their first two national championships in 1987 and 1989 and claiming Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors in 1987 as a freshman.
Allie Quigley, who played collegiately at DePaul and was coached by current Lady Vol assistant Samantha Williams while she was an assistant with the Blue Demons, led Chicago with 26 points.
- This marks the 12th time there has been a Tennessee player on the winning team in the WNBA Finals
- Parker claimed her second WNBA title (2016, 2021) and Diamond DeShields won her first (2021)
- DeShields became the ninth different Lady Vol to play on a WNBA championship team
- Chicago assistant coach Tonya Edwards won her second title, also winning one with Parker in Los Angeles in 2016
- This was the 18th time in 25 seasons a Lady Vol has played in the WNBA Finals
- Thirteen different Lady Vols have gone to the WNBA Finals, tallying 21 total appearances
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WATCH: Butler on Bama QB “Never know what he could bring out this week. He’s obviously a talented player. He obviously has all the tools.”
Tennessee defensive lineman Matthew Butler talked to the media about Saturday’s loss to Ole Miss and look ahead to Alabama this week.
WATCH: Carvin on sacks allowed “A lot of it is just M.As. A lot of it is just scheme schematics. Definitely has to get fixed and it will.”
Tennessee offensive lineman Jerome Carvin talked to the media about Saturday’s loss to Ole Miss and look ahead to Alabama this week.
WATCH: Heupel on OM game “Our guys competed extremely hard. Had to play smarter to finish on the right side of that.”
Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel spoke to the media Monday looking back on the Ole Miss game and ahead to Saturday’s road SEC game at Alabama.
Ryan Hurd’s Album, Pelago, is Available Now
Ryan Hurd‘s debut album, Pelago, is available now.
Ryan shares, “My debut full length album Pelago is out now. It’s been a journey, I hope you love it as much as I do. Love to each and every one of you and thank you for being a part of this moment with me.”
Talking about the project Ryan says, “I wanted to put an album together that had the songs as like song forward, the writing is, all writing I’m really proud of and even if it’s like a fun song, it’s still clever and well written. I wanted something that really represented who I was as a writer and an artist and a person. I mean, it’s your first shot, you only get one time to have a debut album. So having all those summer songs on there was really important having some like, really, I think emotionally challenging songs on there was really important to me and I think that like, tracks one through 11 on the physical copy of Pelago. I mean it’s really is like who what I wanted to do with my first ever full length.“
And when it comes to the title of the album, “Pelago is a title that means open sea or overwhelming passion.“
Fans have two options when it comes to the songs they get on Ryan’s album – the physical copy includes 11-tracks, while the digital option provides 4 additional songs.
Pelago, CD and Download Only Digital Audio LP track list;
- “Pass It On”
- “Coast”
- “Chasing After You” (with Maren Morris)
- “June, July, August”
- “Palm Trees in Ohio”
- “If I Had Two Hearts”
- “Tab with My Name on It”
- “What Are You Drinking”
- “Hell Is an Island”
- “The Knife or the Hatchet”
- “I Never Said I’m Sorry”
The additional tracks fans get on the Streaming Only Digital Audio LP
12. “Platonic”
13. “Every Other Memory”
14. “To a T”
15. “Diamonds or Twine”
Ryan Hurd got his start in Nashville as a songwriter, writing tracks for Tim McGraw, Lady A, Blake Shelton and others…including his wife, Maren Morris. So, it’s a bit ironic that for Ryan, and Maren, who hang their hats on their songwriting abilities – neither one had a hand in writing their first duet together “Chasing After You.”
But Ryan says the writers – Brinley Addington and Jerry Flowers – did a great job at creating a song that is very easy to sing…and Ryan says that’s not always easy to do, “You can tell a great song is easy to sing live, and ‘Chasing After You’ is a really good example of that…where it could be in any key, and it would be the easiest song in the world to sing, and I don?t know how they did it. We didn’t write the song but they wrote the easiest song in the world to sing.”
Ryan and Maren’s massive hit “Chasing After You” is on both editions on Pelago, which is available now.
Photo Credit: Nicki Fletcher
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