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SportsNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville SC plays its last regular season home game Sunday, Nov. 1, at GEODIS Park in Nashville, and there is plenty riding on it even with the Supporters' Shield already won. A win over Red Bull New York would tie the league…
SportsNASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have moved on from the player many fans in Nashville saw as the face of the franchise. The team shipped Jeffery Simmons, its star on the defensive line, to Chicago on Thursday, taking back a haul of draft picks…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream host Golden State in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday, with a 12:30 p.m. ET start at State Farm Arena, a workday tipoff the team’s owners have publicly blamed on the league. In a letter to fans…
From the HERE City National DeskATHENS, Ga. — Georgia men’s basketball tips off its season Monday night at Stegeman Coliseum against North Carolina Central, the first step in a push for a third NCAA Tournament bid in a row. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Coach Mike White enters…
From the HERE City National DeskRALEIGH, N.C. — NC State will put up the money, facilities and NIL backing its next football coach needs, according to a letter to fans released Wednesday under the names of Boo Corrigan, the athletics director, and Chancellor Kevin Howell, days after the school fired…
From the HERE City National DeskGREEN BAY, Wis. — Two teams coming off losses meet Thursday night at Lambeau Field, where the Carolina Panthers try to stay above .500 against a Green Bay Packers club that has its own list of injuries to manage. Carolina arrives on a short week…
From the HERE City National DeskIRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference on Wednesday hit UCF with a $100,000 fine after a group of Knights fans aimed chants at BYU and its sponsoring Latter-day Saints church before last Saturday’s football game in Orlando, which UCF won in overtime. The league…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has given up his ownership stake in Polymarket, saying NFL rules no longer let players hold a piece of prediction-market companies. Barkley said the league briefs players ahead of every season on which endorsements and investments…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — With the World Series decided, Major League Baseball moved into its offseason Thursday, and the calendar between now and December is packed because a labor shutdown could stop the hot stove cold. Players with at least six years of service became…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Ernie Johnson, the host who has anchored Inside the NBA since 1990, said Wednesday that the 2026-27 season will be his last at the desk. Johnson, 70, shared the decision in a video on social media and stressed that it was his…
From the HERE City National DeskPHOENIX, Ariz. — Phoenix’s first turn hosting the NCAA Women’s Final Four pumped $71.5 million into the Arizona economy, researchers at Arizona State’s Seidman Research Institute concluded. The results were released Wednesday. Researchers surveyed out-of-state fans in person at the April 3 and April 5…
From the HERE City National DeskBOSTON, Mass. — Roughly three of every four retired NFL players who died from 2008 through 2023 had the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a population-wide estimate released Wednesday by a Boston University-led research team. The researchers put the figure at 74.5%. CTE,…
Education
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's private school voucher program has grown to about 35,000 students this school year, and new records show the awards are bunched in a small number of mostly affluent communities while large parts of the state see few or none. The General Assembly approved 35,000 Education Freedom…
Education
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee would count roughly 120,000 more students as economically disadvantaged, and send more money to the districts that teach them, under a change recommended this week by the committee that reviews the state school funding formula. Members of the TISA Review Committee signed off Wednesday on the…
Business
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee has entered the race to host the new U.S. Space Academy, with Gov. Bill Lee proposing to build the national training campus on industrial land in Coffee County. Lee announced the bid Wednesday. The academy was created by a presidential executive order in August to prepare…
Business
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority is in discussions with the Trump administration over how a $120 billion South Korean pledge for American nuclear power will be spent, and Tennessee is on the short list of states that could land one of the new reactors. TVA chief executive Mike…
Crime
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Lee has indicated he does not plan to step in on Christa Pike's death sentence, a month after Tennessee tried and failed to carry out her execution by lethal injection. Lee told reporters this week that Pike remains in custody under state law and that…
Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell is putting the future of the city's public hospital under a formal review. At his weekly media roundtable Friday, he announced a vision committee to study Nashville General Hospital, from the buildings it uses to where it should be located and how it…
Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With Election Day set for Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 4 percent state sales tax on food has become one of the clearest dividing lines among the people asking Tennessee voters to make them governor. Every major candidate now says some version of yes to ending the tax,…
Health
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A young measles patient is out of the hospital in Nashville, and state health officials say their follow up has turned up no one in Tennessee who was exposed to the virus. Staff at Vanderbilt's pediatric hospital, Monroe Carell Jr., took the child in overnight Sunday into…
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