playoffs in 2020, and they finished the season ranked as the
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Zak Herbstreit has the chance to make the most of a great opportunity. He may not have NFL aspirations, but he can start by taking the Big Ten by storm. There have been many
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Charlie Rotier
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As part of the second generation of the Rotier family to operate their iconic eponymous diner, Charlie Rotier was personally responsible for feeding decades’ worth of Vanderbilt and Father Ryan students (before the high school made its way out to the ’burbs in the early 1990s). Rotier’s signature French-bread burger has probably also been responsible for part of the earnings of some of those Vandy students who went on to become cardiologists, but it remains a beloved part of the city’s culinary history from long before retro “smashburgers” began to appear on the menus of fine-dining establishments.
TSSAA Honors Long-Time MBA Wrestling Coach For Distinguished Service Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - by John Brice
Frank Simpson
Wrestling s been a part of Frank Simpson s life, well, almost longer than he can remember.
The legendary Montgomery Bell Academy coach first wrestled in high school at Father Ryan, then collegiately at MTSU and since has logged more than four decades in the sport that he grew to love from a mere happenstance event.
“I actually saw my first wrestling match in 1968 when I went and watched Father Ryan wrestle Notre Dame,” Simpson said. “At that time my oldest sister (Sue Ann) was dating a wrestler at Ryan, and I thought it would be cool to see what wrestling is all about.
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The 2020 Boner Awards From superspreader events to screw-ups by Bill Lee, Marsha Blackburn and beyond, hereâs our annual list of bloopers and blunders Tweet
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Scene didnât name our annual Boner Awards what we did simply so we could make cheeky puns. Thatâs just a bonus.
Other former mayors get parkways or Metro office buildings named for them. Bill Boner, mayor from 1987 to 1991, gets this issue â now in its 31st year â as an annual honor. Ultimately, Bonerâs one-term tenure as mayor included a peculiar appearance on
The Phil Donahue Show, among other very weird and wacky news items that secured his status as the namesake of this recurring issue of the