Dolly Parton has a new fragrance called “Dolly – Scent from Above” and she wants you to try it!
On social media she posted “Discover ‘Dolly – Scent from Above’ Make sure to snag your deluxe samples while supplies last!” along with this video…
In case you were wondering what “Dolly – Scent from Above” smells like, it’s described as “A playful floral, as soft and spirited as its namesake.”
Additionally, “Welcome to Dolly’s world, where fruited notes as bright as rhinestones dance and float above irresistible florals, like butterflies in a garden. The earthen scents of southern fir and musk rise up to join them, in a sweet, singular harmony.”
LANCO‘s music video for their brand new song, “Near Mrs.” is truly a family event.
Not only does the video include band members Brandon Lancaster, Chandler Baldwin, Jared Hampton, Tripp Howell, and Eric Steedly — but there’s special appearances by their wives!
Brandon’s daughter also makes a special cameo along with a couple of baby bumps on the wives of Chandler and Tripp.
Check out the band new music from LANCO for their song “Near Mrs.” right here…
Tennessee basketball senior and reigning SEC Defensive Player of the Year Yves Pons has been named to the 10-man semifinal list for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award, the Atlanta Tipoff Club Announced Thursday.
The list was chosen by the Atlanta Tipoff Club’s board of selectors, comprised of leading journalists from around the country, who base their decisions on outstanding on-court defensive performances during the 2020-21 college basketball regular season.
Pons is one of two players from the SEC who has been named a semifinalist for the award. Joining him is Alabama’s Herb Jones.
The Fuveau, France, native has the innate ability to effectively guard all five positions on the floor and makes the Vols virtually matchup-proof while he’s on the court.
This season, Pons has blocked 34 shots, ranking seventh in the SEC with 1.6 per game. Last weekend, sent back three shot attempts against Kentucky. It was his fourth game of the season with three or more blocks.
He currently sits in 11th on UT’s all-time blocks list with 124 career rejections and has tallied 107 blocks in his last 52 games (2.1 per game) dating to the start of last season.
Pons has recorded a career-best 14 steals this season while also ranking second on the team with eight charges drawn.
On the offensive end, Pons has scored in double figures in seven of his last nine contests, averaging 11.3 points per game during that span.
Pons earned last season’s SEC Defensive Player of the Year award after tying Tennessee’s single-season blocks record, with 73. He blocked at least one shot in all 31 of UT’s games last season (2.4 bpg). He became the first Vol to claim the award and just the third Tennessee player to earn a spot on the SEC All-Defensive Team.
The Naismith Defensive Player of the Year candidate list will be trimmed to five finalists next month, and the winner of the award presented to the nation’s best defender will be announced in April.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —Brian Jean-Mary, a 21-year coaching veteran who spent the 2020 season as linebackers coach at Michigan, has been named Tennessee’s new linebackers coach, head coach Josh Heupel officially announced on Thursday.
“Brian is a great fit on our defensive staff,” Heupel said. “He has coached defenses that are known for creating negative plays and forcing turnovers. He brings energy, experience and extensive success as a recruiter to Tennessee. Our student-athletes will enjoy playing for him, and we are excited to officially welcome him to Knoxville.”
Prior to Michigan, Jean-Mary served on the defensive staffs at Louisville (2010-13) as assistant head coach/linebackers coach, then at Texas (2014-16) as linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator. He was the assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at USF from 2017-19.
Jean-Mary, a native of Apopka, Florida, has been a part of four conference championships and 14 bowl games as a coach dating back to his graduate assistant start at Louisville in 2000. As a recruiter, Jean-Mary helped produce a trio of top-15 signing classes at Texas, improving from 15th in 2014 to seventh in 2015 and eighth in 2016. He also had a top-30 class at Louisville in 2011 (27th) and the nation’s 15th-best class at Georgia Tech in 2007.
Jean-Mary’s defenses were consistently among the nation’s best in turnovers created, tackles for loss and pass defense at USF. In his first year, the Bulls were top 25 nationally in six categories, including sacks per game (3.0, 11th) and interceptions (20, second). USF led The American Conference in total defense (359.8) and scoring defense (21.5 points per game), improving from 120th in total defense and 92nd in scoring defense to 37th and 41st, respectively, after Jean-Mary’s arrival. Defensive tackle Deadrin Senat was one of five all-conference defenders before being drafted in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons.
USF forced 69 turnovers across Jean-Mary’s three seasons and ranked top 30 in the FBS in that area twice. The Bulls also ranked top five in tackles for loss per game twice (8.4 and 8.3 per game in 2017, ’19), while ranking No. 4 in red zone defense in 2019 (67.4 percent).
During his time as the linebackers coach at Texas, Jean-Mary developed four All-Big 12 players and an All-American in Jordan Hicks (2014). Texas was top 25 nationally in six categories in 2014, including sacks (11th). The Longhorns averaged more than 3.0 sacks per game in all three years Jean-Mary was at Texas, ranking top-five nationally in his last two seasons.
Texas also led the nation in recovered fumbles (21) in 2014 and ranked 11th in 2015 (12). Hicks was selected in the third round of the 2015 NFL Draft, and Jean-Mary’s former players Lorenzo Mauldin and Deiontrez Mount (from his days at Louisville) were also chosen.
Before Texas, Jean-Mary worked as assistant head coach and linebackers coach at Louisville where the Cardinals won 37 games and two Big East Championships (2011, ’12) across four seasons. UL compiled a 3-1 bowl game record culminating with a victory over No. 4 Florida in the 2013 Sugar Bowl. Louisville’s .885 win percentage (23-3) over the 2012-13 seasons was the fourth-best mark in the country during that time.
Jean-Mary spent six seasons coaching linebackers at Georgia Tech from 2004-09, guiding the defense to top 30 seasons in rushing defense, scoring defense and total defense in five of his six years on staff. The Yellow Jackets led the nation in sacks and ranked second in tackles for loss in 2007 and finished top 20 in both categories the next season as well. In 2009, Georgia Tech went 11-3 with an ACC Championship and went on to appear in the 2010 FedEx Orange Bowl. Linebacker Gerris Wilkinson (2005) and Philip Wheeler (2008) were third-round NFL Draft picks under Jean-Mary.
Jean-Mary got started as a graduate assistant on the strength and conditioning staff at Louisville in 2000 before spending two seasons under Lou Holtz at South Carolina where he was a defensive graduate assistant coach (2001-02). He then got his first full-time coaching job at North Alabama (2003) where he helped the Lions go 13-2, win the Gulf South Conference Championship and clinch a berth in the semifinals of the 2003 NCAA Division II playoffs while allowing 14.1 points per game (sixth nationally).
Jean-Mary earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Appalachian State in 1998. He played linebacker for the Mountaineers from 1993-97. He and his wife, Jerilyn Ardis, have two daughters, Brooke and Brittany.
THE JEAN-MARY FILE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: May 24, 1975 Hometown: Apopka, Florida Education: Appalachian State, 1998 (bachelor’s in political science) Wife: Jerilyn Ardis Children: Brooke, Brittany
COACHING HISTORY
2000: Louisville, Graduate Assistant
2001-02: South Carolina, Graduate Assistant
2003: North Alabama, Secondary
2004-09: Georgia Tech, Linebackers
2010-13: Louisville, Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers
2014-16: Texas, Linebackers/Recruiting Coordinator
2017-19: USF, Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
2020: Michigan, Linebackers
2021: Tennessee, Linebackers
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS (4)
2012 Big East – Louisville (Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers)
2011 Big East – Louisville (Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers)
2009 ACC – Georgia Tech (Linebackers)
2003 Gulf South – North Alabama (Secondary)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Two 20-point scoring outputs from junior Victor Bailey Jr. and freshman Jaden Springer, along with a double-double from senior Yves Pons, pushed the No. 25 Tennessee basketball team past Vanderbilt, 70-58, Wednesday inside Memorial Gym.
The win was Tennessee’s (16-6, 9-6 SEC) eighth consecutive victory over Vanderbilt (6-13, 2-11 SEC) and UT’s fifth straight in the Commodores’ home gym.
The Vols were led by Bailey Jr., who poured in 21 points on 7-of-14 shooting and 5-of-8 from 3-point range. The Austin, Texas, native also added three rebounds and three assists.
Springer added 20 points of his own, marking his fifth 20-point performance of the season. He finished the night 5-of-8 from the field and was a stellar 10-of-10 from the free-throw line.
Springer also totaled a season-high-tying three steals, a pair of assists and a block.
Pons scored an even 10 points for the third consecutive game and was a monster on the boards, pulling in 10 huge rebounds for his third career double-double and his first of the season.
The opening half was defined by runs, as each team had a spurt during which it outscored the opponent by at least 10 points.
Down 20-17 with less than seven minutes to play in the half, the Vols used an explosive 15-2 run to take a 32-22 lead into halftime.
Out of the break, UT extended its run to 22-5 through the first four minutes of the second half, increasing its lead to 39-25 at the under-16 media timeout.
The Vols held an advantage as large as 15 points in the second half, but Vanderbilt refused to go away, trimming Tennessee’s lead to as few as four points down the stretch.
However, some clutch made free-throws and multiple key stops cemented the night’s final score line.
Bailey’s Been Ballin’: From a scoring standpoint, this is the best three-game stretch of Victor Bailey Jr.’s career. He has scored 68 points over Tennessee’s last three games. His previous best three-game scoring output was 49 total points against Prairie View A&M (15), Alabama State (18) and Ball State (16) in the second, third and fourth games of his career when he was a freshman at Oregon in 2017. Bailey Jr. has scored 31 percent of the Vols’ total points over the last three games (68 of 218).
Up Next: Tennessee stays on the road for a Saturday afternoon matchup with Auburn. Tipoff from Auburn Arena is set for noon ET on ESPN.
The 2022 Special Olympics USA Games is proud to partner with Westwood One, Sony Music Nashville and Country Music artists like Maren Morris, in support of Special Olympics athletes throughout the US and Caribbean who will compete in the USA Games in Orlando, Florida, June 4-12, 2022. Together, we will Shine as One.
THE 2022 SPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMES IS COMING TO FLORIDA FOR THE FIRST TIME!
4,000 athletes, 10,000 volunteers and 125,000 spectators will help make the 2022 USA Games the largest ever.
Matt Stell announced his Everywhere But Home tour — which will see him playing 15 shows over the next 4 months across 6 states, and it starts this weekend!
Matt posted, “It’s official—the boys and I are saddling up and hitting the road again. I’ve been waiting a long time to say that. Real talk y’all better be ready to 100% full send blow out every minute of every one of these dates because I promise you we are gonna be. 2020 knocked us on our asses. In 2021 we fight back by having all the fun we didn’t get to have and then some. I typed this out in all caps first because that’s how I feel right now, but it was hard to read and looked annoying. But I mean it that hard. Be ready. The future’s coming and it’s looking BRIGHT.”
Matt added, “Can’t wait to play a few and raise one (more than one) up in Florida this weekend. Thankful we can get back out there and safely bring the music to y’all!”
Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday February 26th at noon local time, more info at mattstell.com.
Along with his two number-one hits, “Prayed For You” and “Everywhere But On” (which inspired the tour name), Matt is sure to play his brand new single, “That Ain’t Me No More.”
Talking about the song, Matt says, “I love all kinds of music. Uptempo country songs about heartbreak are probably my favorite, especially when a song has a fresh take on the subject. ‘That Ain’t Me No More’ is all of these things and it’s a rocker to boot”
Listen to the song here, and remember to head to mattstell.com for ticket info about the Everywhere But Home tour.
