Joel
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Joel Hollingsworth is a 1999 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law. He wears a despicable tie by day while functioning as General Counsel of a health care organization and frightening orange plaid pajamas by mornings, nights, and weekends as Editor-in-Chief of Rocky Top Talk. His work has been featured on and in numerous websites and print publications on topics ranging from vomit to tax and copyright law (he's cited as an "expert" in the footnotes, which his wife finds hilarious nearly to the point of incontinence). Oh, and he's written about the Tennessee Volunteers, too, first in 2005 at View from Rocky Top (trudging through The Season of Which We Do Not Speak), and then here at RTT beginning in 2006. In 2009, he served as Editor for (and contributed to) the Maple Street Press preseason annual Rocky Top Tennessee 2009, which features a superb cast of contributors including nationally-known sports writers, Knoxville-based newspaper writers, and A-list bloggers. Joel also contributed an article on the Third Saturday in October to MSP's 2008 Alabama annual and an article on the Tennessee-Florida rivalry to MSP's 2009 Florida annual.
As a sports blogger, Joel guest-hosted at the Yahoo! college football blog Dr. Saturday for a week in March, 2009 and has guest-posted on a variety of other notable sites such as Every Day Should Be Saturday and Burnt Orange Nation, exposure that has helped lead to even more surprising and bizarre notoriety, including interviews by NBC Sports, ESPN.com, and The Sports Tap radio program. He's also mostly to blame for both the 2006 and 2007 College Football Blogger Awards, for which he conned four of the biggest names in our niche to put forth a united effort to promote the entire college football blogosphere.
Joel lives in Jonesborough, Tennessee, adjacent to Jackson the Mule, who says hi.
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Commented Heh on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 9:19 PM EDT
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Commented He once traveled to Birmingham with me on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 8:06 PM EDT
Commented He's a terrible typer, though on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 8:04 PM EDT
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Commented He lives in the cow pasture behind my house on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 8:03 PM EDT
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Commented Who's Hatvol? on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:57 PM EDT
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Commented Hey! on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:54 PM EDT
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Commented on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:51 PM EDT
Commented Raftery's favorite call on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:51 PM EDT
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Commented It's that first part that I'm nervous about on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:50 PM EDT
Commented LOOK AT THE ONIONS! on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:46 PM EDT
Commented ONIONS! on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:46 PM EDT
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Commented Late foul on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:42 PM EDT
Commented No, they're wisked away to Oz on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:42 PM EDT
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Commented Iowans are good at putting down roots on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:39 PM EDT
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Commented Charge! on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:39 PM EDT
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Commented Or that they've seen it in their repeated nightmares on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:38 PM EDT
Commented If Kansas loses on NCAA Second Round: Tennessee 83 Ohio 68 on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 7:35 PM EDT
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Commented Who thought we'd do this on January 2nd of this year? on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:58 PM EDT
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Commented Don't know where's he from on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:51 PM EDT
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Commented Nice! on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:40 PM EDT
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Commented Quadriful header? on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:34 PM EDT
Commented Sometimes my former-rock star ears on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:33 PM EDT
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Commented Hey! on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:32 PM EDT
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Commented Last foul we thought was him was actually Pearl on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:30 PM EDT
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Commented Prince layp and the foul on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:27 PM EDT
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Commented Ohio hits on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:24 PM EDT
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Commented Pearl hits a layup on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:24 PM EDT
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Commented So far on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 5:12 PM EDT
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Commented 2nd half thread on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:48 PM EDT
Posted Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: 2nd half game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:47 PM EDT
Commented Yes on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:39 PM EDT
Commented He was laughing hysterically at Bruce yelling at Steven on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:39 PM EDT
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Commented Yeah on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:32 PM EDT
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Commented 68 in my basement on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:20 PM EDT
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Commented Had to rewind to see that on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:19 PM EDT
Commented Great run there for our guys on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:18 PM EDT
Commented Starting to see more doubling/tripling on Chism on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:13 PM EDT
Commented Good point on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:11 PM EDT
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Commented Ohio has more o-rebounds than d-rebounds on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:10 PM EDT
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Commented Man on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:09 PM EDT
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Commented Still liking the game plan on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:09 PM EDT
Commented Pearl's gonna nail both of these on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 4:07 PM EDT
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Commented Yes on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:57 PM EDT
Commented It's early, but they're hitting 75% from the field on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:57 PM EDT
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Commented 3-3 for them already? on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:54 PM EDT
Commented Liking the game plan on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:53 PM EDT
Commented Um on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:52 PM EDT
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Commented All right on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:50 PM EDT
Commented Verne already sounds sleepy on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:49 PM EDT
Commented Wow on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:48 PM EDT
Commented UT game just went live on MMOD on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:48 PM EDT
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Commented Have you heard whether he'll start or whether he's just in the rotation on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:46 PM EDT
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Commented Hey, bull on Tennessee Volunteers vs. Ohio Bobcats: open game thread on Rocky Top Talk - 03/20/10 3:46 PM EDT
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