Marcus Ericsson ran into ran into the back of Sebastien Bourdais’ car on the fifth lap and went airborne but was able to recover for the win.
Author: Mike Organ, Nashville Tennessean
Van Heflin, Vanderbilt’s first Black quarterback to consistently start in 1978, has died
Van Heflin became Vanderbilt’s starter in 1978, six years after Tennessee’s Condredge Holloway became the first starting Black quarterback in the SEC.
How Tennessee State’s Hercy Miller, son of rapper Master P, will spend his $2 million NIL deal
Master P wants to help other Tennessee State athletes after helping his son, an incoming freshman basketball player, land a $2 million financial deal.
U.S. men’s national soccer team to face Canada in World Cup qualifier at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium in September
The U.S. men’s national soccer team will play Canada on Sept. 5 at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium in a World Cup qualifying game.
Jim Weatherly, former Ole Miss QB and famed ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ singer-songwriter, dies at 77
Jim Weatherly, the former Ole Miss quarterback and famed singer-songwriter who wrote “Midnight Train to Georgia,” died Wednesday. He was 77.
Vanderbilt men’s basketball great Terry Compton dies at 67 after battling COVID-19
Terry Compton, an All-SEC performer for Vanderbilt in the early 1970s, died Sunday at 67 after battling COVID-19.
Former XFL executive Erik Moses becomes first Black president of a NASCAR track
Erik Moses, the first Black man to be named president of a NASCAR track, will head up the effort to bring a NASCAR Cup Series race to Nashville Superspeedway
Nashville group hoping to bring MLB to town applies for logo trademark
Music City Baseball applied for a trademark on the same logo used by the Nashville Stars Negro Leagues team.
9-year-old boy catches 80-pound sturgeon in Tennessee
Coye Price, who weighs 55 pounds, needed almost 15 minutes to get the huge fish into the boat.
Nashville-area small business owners ready to return to work
Small business owners in Middle Tennessee are ready to go back to work after having to shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.