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Peyton Manning Isn’t Sure Why He’s Not the Highest-Paid QB

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Peyton Manning has been to 10 Pro Bowls, including every one since 2002. He's been a first-team All-Pro quarterback five times, including each of the last two seasons. He's won three Associated Press Most Valuable Player awards and was honored another year as the Offensive Player of the Year. He's ...

Steve Sarkisian Sends Lane Kiffin a Picture From Times Square Ticker Showing “Titans sue Kiffin”

Friday, July 30th, 2010

It's been quite the tumultuous offseason for the USC Trojans. They lost their head coach, got put on probation by the NCAA, and most recently, their head coach, Lane Kiffin, was sued by Jeff Fisher and the Tennessee Titans for what the NFL squad alleges was illegal hiring practices stemming ...

Eric Berry and Lane Kiffin Land Their Dream Jobs

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Former Tennessee football Head Coach Lane Kiffin may already be immortalized in the words of Lil Wayne, but former Tennessee head ball-hawk (and All-American safety) may soon be immortalized as one of the league's great safeties along with the likes of Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu. After one year together ...

You Can Count Bruce Pearl as One Person That Won’t be Watching the Final Four

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Despite having to kick his best player off the team this season and only having six scholarship players on the roster at one point in the year, Bruce Pearl led his team on a tremendous NCAA Tournament run and showed why he is one of the best coaches in the ...

Bruce Pearl and the Tennessee Volunteers Will Have Their Hands Full in the Sweet Sixteen with Ohio State and a “young Kobe Bryant”

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

I will admit that when the tournament started, the first upset that I looked at on my bracket was San Diego State taking out Tennessee.  Now, I had some other upsets as well, but Tennessee was a team that I thought should be on upset alert.  I honestly thought they ...

Derek Dooley: “I may not be the most popular candidate because I made that decision three years ago, but I do think that I’m certainly more qualified by doing what I did than by staying with Nick [Saban’.”

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Sure, Derek Dooley has a nice little coaching resume and pedigree (his dad won a national championship at Georgia), but his hiring at Tennessee still has to be considered a fairly big surprise. Dooley arrives in Knoxville from Louisiana Tech, where he guided them to a 17-20 record in three ...

I Don’t Think Lane Kiffin Will Be Moving Again For Awhile

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Wow, Lane Kiffin sure knows how to make people angry.  Whether it's Al Davis, Urban Meyer, or the Tennessee Vols fans (NSFW), Kiffin has seemingly mastered the art of burning bridges and making enemies.  Another thing he excels at is recruiting.  He was a great recruiter at USC under Pete ...

Bruce Pearl Finally Has Something to Smile About

Monday, January 11th, 2010

An undermanned Tennessee Volunteers team knocked the Kansas Jayhawks from the ranks of the undefeated Sunday, 76-68. That win was the first time Tennessee has beaten the number one team in the country on their home court. This comes at a time when nothing but bad things have been said ...

Lane Kiffin:”They have high standards here and we do as well”

Friday, September 11th, 2009

SRI continues to work in new writers. This post is courtesy of Zach Krantz of WQAM in Miami.  Lane Kiffin has had an interesting last few years. He took over as Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders in 2007, making him the youngest head coach in Raiders history and the ...

Lane Kiffin Far From Regretful Of His Attention Grabbing Actions

Monday, July 27th, 2009

The start of college football is around the corner for the Tennessee Volunteers and the rest of the country. Head coach Lane Kiffin certainly has people in Knoxville excited about the program after a disappointing end to the Phillip Fulmer era. Kiffin joined WGFX in Tennessee late last week to ...