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Vote for the Tennessee Volunteer football play you think should not make the top four in Rocky Top Talk's Best Plays of 2008.

I'm thinking it's too early to really make this pronouncement, but The Tennessean is saying that the defensive line is proving critics wrong. They did play well against UCLA, and that's good, but I...

It's been nine days since the UCLA game, and my knee has just now, right this second, stopped twitching. Mine's not the only one. Vol fans everywhere have allowed their primary leg joints to jerk...

If you didn't catch Friday's teaser article, you're probably wondering why in the world I'm referring to a one-armed judo champion.  Here's the article if you want to catch the analogy.  If you...

Clarification:  When I refer to defensive alignments in the notes, I refer to the line and linebackers by position relative to the line of scrimmage, not by actual role.  For example, UCLA ran...

The play-by-play of the UT-UCLA game is contained in a nice tabular format after the break.  If you decide to read through it, realize first that I did double-check each play for accuracy, but I...

There is a story floating around that is fairly common in martial arts schools as a motivation to do your best, despite the apparent odds.  The story is probably apocryphal (though I don't know...

During Monday night's telecast of the Tennnessee-UCLA game, ESPN's Holly Rowe reported from the sideline that the Tennessee players were scampering around in between series swapping out wristbands....

Here's the roll call for last week's Tennnessee-UCLA open game thread. LOUthe METfan gets a point for the most comments, and I'm giving a point to wvvol for this astute observation: If he has...

Best stiff arm. Arian Foster, on some poor unsuspecting defender. Really, there's little more satisfying than a well-executed stiff arm, as it leaves the would-be tackler grasping at air through...