5 Ways Tennessee Football Can Boom or Bust In 2016
Ever since former UT head football coach Lane Kiffin left the program in shambles, the Vols have experienced a tough road and now Butch Jones is primed to lead the Vols back to national championship territory. Joe Cox at Saturday Down South shows us how 5 ways Tennessee football can [...]
How Tennis Balls Are Made: An Inside Look
If you haven't picked up on it by now, OneSouthernMan is a huge tennis fan. I play (ALOT) and love the gentlemanly aspects of the game; plus, it's a great way to exercise and socialize simultaneously. Below is a peak inside the Wilson factory and a great video on how [...]
Manning, Other Sports Greats to Honor UT’s Pat Summitt
Pat's Summitt's four-decade coaching career will long stand as one of the University of Tennessee's greatest athletic achievements. Her heroes include some of the greatest athletes and coaches of the modern era and many will gather to honor Pat Summitt in memorial later next month. Whenever Peyton Manning would talk about Pat [...]
7 Great Southern Gun Shops
Bird hunting and guns are an intricate part of the southern lifestyle. Even though we're dealing with triple-digit southern summers, it's never to early to prepare for hunting season. Garden & Gun has provided us with a preview of gun shops worthy of a visit. Some of the best shops [...]
Southern Football Stadiums: How They Were Named
Ever wonder how the SEC football stadium you visit on a fall Saturday got its name? Tony Barnhart of Gridiron Now has written an excellent piece on the history of SEC stadiums. A couple of things prompted me to write this column. First was a conversation with our own Buddy [...]
Bubba Watson Talks Bubba Watson; Working On the Mental Side of Golf
The Masters, golf's greatest PGA tournament tees off in Augusta, GA this week and one of the south's favorites, Bubba Watson, talks about the "mental" side of playing, surviving and winning. After beginning the week by telling the world he’s essentially scared of life, Watson let on Tuesday that he’d [...]
4 Life Lessons Learned From Playing Minor League Baseball
Major League Baseball with all of its glitz and glamour has started but not every professional player is in "the show." Vance Albitz, a former player and now coach for the Cardinals AAA team, Memphis Redbirds outlines some life lessons learned from baseball. Take away the high salaries of the major [...]
The South’s Best College Football Facilities & Locker Rooms
The Southeastern Conference has no shortage of outstanding locker rooms for the football programs that bring in millions to their schools athletic programs. Keith Farner at Saturday Down South takes us on an in-depth look at a few of these great facilities. The arms race in college football had busy [...]