ShadeWarrior

I'm not really a basketball guy, but myself and my family have known Coach Darden for decades. He's one of the last of a great generation of basketball coaches. He's an amazing teacher of basketball and an even better person. I have no clue of the situation over there at CAK, but I find it hard to believe that Coach Darden did anything that merits termination. If he chooses not to retire for good, I would assume that some local basketball team is going to pick up quite a leader.

Darian Stone, QB, Jr., Clinton, cannon-armed leader of Dragon offense that averages 33.1 points per game and 409.2 yards per game. Through Week Nine, Stone has thrown for 1,631 yards, 17 TDs (w/ 2 INT), and has rushed for 714 yards and 8 TDs on the ground. Helped lead Clinton to playoffs for first time since '98 and is playing this Friday (Week 10 vs. Powell) for a home-playoff game. Much like some of the others, he's as good a student-athlete off of the field as he is on it. Those with a vote's consideration would be appreciated.

1st - Alcoa 10, Maryville 7 2nd - Alcoa 17, Maryville 7 3rd - Alcoa 20, Maryville 14 4th - Alcoa 27, Maryville 14

Clinton High School Baseball has a two-year old indoor batting cage for sale. Dimensions of the cage are 70' long x 15' wide x 12' high. 50' of the cage is netting with a 20' metal backstop. It has been used indoors only. We're moving to a new facility and are short on space. Comes with automated pitching machine and automatic ball retriever/machine feeder. Can sell separately if necessary. Asking price is $15,250. Call Coach Taylor at 865-457-2611. Thanks!

It's ShadeWarrior, not WaCo. Thanks.

Allow me to disagree, but I can make an argument that East Tennessee football is more dominant than the other parts of the state. In 2006, four (4) of the seven total State Champions came from East Tennessee; while three (3) of the five public State Champions came from East Tennessee...more specifically the Knoxville area. In 2005, two (2) schools won public State Championships, with one border school, Livingston, playing in a Knoxville region, making the unofficial total three (3). In 2004, three (3) State Champions came from East Tennessee. Those records seem to indicate that East Tennessee football is certainly more successful than the two other parts of the state. While you need not reply with your statement about East Tennessee "as a whole", remember that the winningest program in the entire state (Kingsport) resides in East Tennessee, as well as the last USA Today Player of the Year (Todd Collins, Jefferson County) from Tennessee. East Tennessee has also had more schools ranked for longer on the USA Today Super 25 list since its inception. Add to all of this the Middle Tennessee bias that has existed since the T$$AA began operations. For further reading on that subject, just check the Mr. Football/Basketball candidates every year.

Those two, along with Shannon Mitchell and Billy Williams, played professionally in the NFL.

Early '80s. And that was a good call earlier about Barry Lail. Definitely one of the better ones in school history.

The Bowlin kid in '98 was amazing.

Al Davis, Jr., Shannon Mitchell, Jamie Henry, David Davis, Chad Smith, James Rainer, and Michael George, just to name a few more... The most underrated player in Alcoa history, however, is linebacker Mike Tyson from the mid '90s.

About like how DragonRon could take a few pointers from everybody in the town of Clinton.

Bob Reeves...yeah!yeah!yeeeeah! DragonRon, you're a "no banana".