professional sports

Gary Estwick interviews the man who drafted and/or signed most of the Titans' 5-0 team: 

From 1999 through 2003, the Titans went 56-21 with only 2 seasons that ended without a post-season win. From 2004 through 2007 they went 27-37.  It's a tale of two radically different teams, a schizophrenic roller coaster for Titans fans.

Miracles

Whew! What a great game!

Living downtown provides a whole new perspective to professional sports. Having worked for the University of Tennessee Police Department I understand all of the security that goes into a major ball game. But, Nashville takes it to a whole new level with street closures and traffic direction and everything unimaginable.

This is pretty interesting.  Caleb Campbell, a West Point grad, was selected by the Detroit Lions in the 7th round of this year's draft.  The Army had a rule in place that soldiers could be excused from their 2 years of minimum duty if they signed a professional sports contract.  Campbell was all set to begin Lions training camp until he received word last night that the DOD had

Kix Brooks, of Brooks & Dunn, shares his impressions of the changes in Nashville over the years and of one of the men responsible for a good deal of them– former Mayor Bill Purcell:

This post has me wondering: have money and power (which Habermas would call system "steering mechanisms") so uncoupled professional sports from local lifeworlds that we will see a day when teams move fluidly across borders for periods of time

The City Paper’s editorial voice asserts that the city of Nashville is at a crossroads and must choose: auto-racing or baseball:

The editorial voice of the City Paper discusses Karl Dean’s place in the pantheon of recent Metro Mayors: