UT’s Rugby Coach Retiring

Thanks to the KNS for covering Butch Robertson’s retirement and 750+ career wins.

Rugby was just one of the many things he taught. I learned countless lessons from him from 1993-1996, not the least of which was that the way to make a real impact is by showing up every day ready to do work for decades.

The guy never got a dime for his efforts either. In fact, it probably cost him quite a bit of money to come out in bad weather twice a week for all those years and deal with the jetsam of high school soccer, football, and wrestling.

Thanks Butch, for all you’ve done for so many young men!

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Tennessee Football Training Center Virtual Tour

This is pretty cool. My guess is that there aren’t any other departments on campus that could afford to do this. When I say “do this”, I’m not talking about building the Training Center…of course they couldn’t do that. I mean that I doubt they could afford to produce this video. Maybe the Film Studies Department could do it on the backs of undergrad labor as a special project. HT Read More ...

Nonacademic Success, Attacking Social Networking, and More!

Nonacademic Skills Key to Success – Crazy idea…let’s assign two people to each child born in this country to make sure they learn these intangible skills like reliability and work ethic. We can call these people “Parents”. Even if we can only get one good one per child, it will be progress. 16 Yummy Slow Cooker Desserts – Tadow! Ransoming Someone for an XBox 360? – HT @MichaelSilence If you Read More ...

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Stuff You Should See– January 26th through February 1st

The Death of Global Warming – I don’t think it’s dead just yet. Just like in a bad horror movie, it will make one last effort to grab us by the ankle and stab us in the knee. Or something painful like that. Iran News in February. – If this involves a Segway or an iPad I’m going to be very disappointed. The 25 Hottest Olympians To Watch For – Read More ...

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Stuff You Should See– January 7th through January 11th

Twitter’s traffic in trouble? – Scoble has a ton of advice for Twitter. My advice for Twitter: be Twitter and nothing else. Get rid of the 140 character limit? No way! Add comments? No way! Besides, do we really think Twitter could implement all these things without Fail Whaling left and right. Just be Twitter and be good at it, thanks! Lang Wiseman: Vols | Kansas – DISCLAIMER: Lang Wiseman Read More ...

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Delicious Link Dump– December 17th through December 18th

Using Google Apps? 5 Ways to Avoid Getting Hacked – I really need to get around to doing these things. Looks like you could make it happen in less than 15 minutes and save yourself a lot of heartache. WordPress 2.9, oh so fine – Just updated, and this should force a post. The image editor and easy video embed are nice! Common Laptop/Netbook Positions to Avoid – I'm just Read More ...

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Delicious Link Dump– October 26th through October 29th

Davidson County (TN) GOP Moves To Oust Ron Paul-Supporting Vice Chair – I've quietly followed this for a while. It seems to be a classic case of "I'll push you away so I can cry when you don't love me." Facebook Grabs For The Entire Web – All your faces will belong to us. The Key to a Happy Marriage…. – In every instance of this article, you can exchange Read More ...

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Another Yummy Link Dump — 17:05

Pelosi Open To The VAT – Gasp! Shock! What? She would actually consider a new tax? The hell you say! Post Rapture Pets – No matter what you do or don't believe, you have to admit this is a smart business model. There’s No Excuse For This – Windows mobile 6.5 – Just to needle @raowen: "It's an interim product, and a vain attempt to hold onto the thinning ranks Read More ...

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KTown Cage Fights

My buddy Doug is the fight director for a local organization with an MMA fight card coming up next Friday. Local MMA fans who would like to see more events in East Tennessee should check it out! Doug worked really hard to bring legitimate MMA fighting to Tennessee. I’ve seen him in many bouts myself, though none of them sanctioned, and participated along side him in a few Battle Royals.

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Full of Sound and Fury? Signifying Nothing?

What will be the end result of resolutions in the various states supporting the 10th Amendment? While seven states – Tennessee, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Alaska and Louisiana – have had both houses of their legislatures pass similar decrees, Alaska Gov. Palin and Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen are currently the only governors to have signed their states’ sovereignty resolutions. Sarah Palin has now joined Phil Bredesen as one Read More ...

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Another Reason I Love Living Here

Where else are you going to get headlines like this in the newspaper? Scuffle with son over sandwich meat burns shotgun-packing meth maker A scuffle over your son with sandwich meat should stand for a head line on its own, but a shotgun-packing meth maker is icing on the cake. Stay classy East Tennessee. Stay classy.

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Well Lefty Blogosphere?

Here’s your chance to show you aren’t hypocritical. Blue Collar Muse has posted the contents of an email that he says was sent while the whole brouhaha from yesterday was occurring–this time from a Tennessee Democrat staffer. Are we going to see some outrage here? Some have stepped up already, others are saying in the comments that they will wait until a name is released. I definitely won’t hold my Read More ...

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Stupidity – Yet Another Reason For Smaller Government

It’s bad enough that a staffer for an elected official is racist enough to distribute something like this by e-mail. It’s even worse that they are so stupid as to think it wouldn’t surface with their name attached to it. Now for another round of apologies and resignation. Michael Silence has more. Update From Christian Grantham: I spoke with Sherri Goforth minutes ago to confirm she sent this email. She Read More ...

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Stay Classy East Tennessee!

The slit up the leg of the wedding dress and the boots are what make me the most proud. I guess the dress didn’t come in camouflage blaze orange? I ran a quick search to see if I could find a camouflage wedding dress. No luck, but I was able to find other clothing items in camouflage. Not just baby clothes either! via A Jamaican wedding followed by a honeymoon Read More ...

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