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December - 2007

Talking points: Outback Bowl sentence fragment edition
THE 2007 PETROSUN INDEPENDENCE BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: ALABAMA 30, COLORADO 24
Talking points: On Mayo, b-ball defense, another offensive coordinator candidate, and sight-seeing
Hail Mary Haiku: The Outback Bowl, Take II edition
THE 2007 VALERO ALAMO BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS 24, TEXAS A&M AGGIES 17
THE 2007 MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: WAKE FOREST 24, CONNECTICUT 10
THE 2007 AUTOZONE LIBERTY BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: MISSISSIPPI STATE BULLDOGS 10, UCF KNIGHTS 3
Tennessee Volunteers v. Gonzaga Bulldogs open game thread
THE 2007 EMERALD BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: OREGON STATE BEAVERS 21, MARYLAND TERRAPINS 14
THE 2007 TEXAS BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: TCU HORNED FROGS 20, HOUSTON COUGARS 13
THE 2007 CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: BOSTON COLLEGE GOLDEN EAGLES 24, MICHIGAN STATE SP
Talking points: more Outback Bowl stuff edition . . . and commercials!
THE 2007 HOLIDAY BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: TEXAS LONGHORNS 52, ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVILS 34
Talking points: talkin' turkey, cheese, and vomit
Merry Christmas!
WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR FOR THE TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS?
Tennessee Volunteers v. Xavier Musketeers open game thread
Talking Points: decisions, no decisions, and Funyuns
THE 2007 POINSETTIA BOWL ANIMATED DRIVE CHART: UTAH UTES 35, NAVY MIDSHIPMEN 32
AN ACTUAL THING THAT'S HAPPENING: Fulmer to Interview Clemson's Rob Spence
Something new on the horizon
Tennessee Volunteers v. UNC-Asheville Bulldogs open game thread
RTT College Bowl Mania
GVX: TROOPER TAYLOR LEAVING TENNESSEE TO BECOME OKLAHOMA STATE'S OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR
Recruiting Board Semi-update
THE CASE FOR TROOPER TAYLOR AS TENNESSEE'S NEXT OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR
Talking Points: Cutcliffe to Duke official, dominoes falling
Tennessee Volunteers v. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Talking Points: Cutcliffe to Duke, four juniors consider the NFL, Crews out with heart condition
David Cutcliffe expected to become next Duke head coach
Jumping Through Hoops: A Look at Vols Basketball So Far
Is Phillip Fulmer over or underpaid?
Talking Points: on Heismans, stale sandwiches, and other old news
More accolades -- woo!
First look at the 2007-08 Outback Bowl opponent: Tennessee Volunteers v. Wisconsin Badgers
Animated BlogPoll: Runnin' with a whistlin' Godzilla duck
BlogPoller Disorder: And.... We're Done
Tennessee Volunteers v. UT-Chattanooga Mocs open game thread
Demonte Bolden should stay in for the Outback
What SMQ Said About Erik Ainge...
SEASON-LONG TEAM EFFORT MAKES VOL FANS BELIEVERS AGAIN
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS TO PLAY WISCONSIN BADGERS IN THE OUTBACK BOWL
Championship weekend animated drive charts
HAS TENNESSEE JUST LOST BY EIGHT POINTS TO THE LAST TWO NATIONAL CHAMPIONS?
SEC Championship animated drive chart and flash stats: LSU Tigers 21, Tennessee Volunteers 14
Initial post-game ramblin's: LSU Tigers win SEC Championship over the Tennessee Volunteers, 21-14
SEC CHAMPIONSHIP OPEN GAME THREAD: TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS V. LSU TIGERS -- TRRRADTION!!!
CT4UT wins the RTT Hail Mary Haiku SEC Championship edition

November - 2007

3 Thoughts and a Struggle for Talismans
SEC Championship Game: comparing the numbers of the Tennessee Volunteers and the LSU Tigers
Of minds and hearts: Tennessee Volunteers and the LSU Tigers
Talking Points: Self-Aggrandizing, apologizing, and . . . accoladizing? Hmph.
Vote for the winner of the RTT Hail Mary Haiku, SEC Championship edition
SEC Championship game tickets
Jackson and pino win the 2007 RTT College Pick 'Em contest
BlogPoll draft: week 14
Fiddlin' on the Roof: Tradition!
Unit bell curve: Tennessee Volunteers v. Kentucky Wildcats
Hail Mary Haiku: SEC Championship edition, baby!
Post game awards: Tennessee Volunteers, Kentucky Wildcats
My, that's a pudgy and busy animated drive chart! Tennessee Volunteers 52, Kentucky Wildcats 50
Tennessee Volunteers outlast the Kentucky Wildcats in 4 OTs, 52-50: initial post-game ramblin's
Tennessee Volunteers at Kentucky Wildcats: open game thread
Tennessee Volunteers v. West Virginia Mountaineers open game thread
Animated BlogPoll: lame ducks and pirates edition
3 Thoughts: Tennessee-Kentucky, and A Festivus to Get the Best Out of Us
Q&A with SB Nation Kentucky blog A Sea of Blue
Vote for the winner of the Hail Mary Haiku: Kentucky Wildcats edition
Weekly YouTubeage
Happy Thanksgiving to the RTT Community
Tennessee Volunteers v. Kentucky Wildcats: divining the numbers
Current standings in the RTT College Pick 'Em game
Tennessee Volunteers v. Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders
BlogPoller Disorder: Week... Wow, the Season's Almost Over
Tennessee-Kentucky: The Tell-Tale Game
Must see Curious Index
Compare and contrast: Ohio State-Michigan v. Oklahoma-Texas Tech animated drive charts
Hail Mary Haiku: Kentucky Wildcats edition
On tails and the kicking and chewing thereof: Tennessee Volunteers 25, Vanderbilt Commodores 24
Tennessee Volunteers v. Vanderbilt Commodores: open game thread
3T&COD: Shiny New Vandy
New Tennessee Volunteer YouTubes
Animated BlogPoll: what comes out when you squeeze a Buckeye edition
Lunchtime linkage: failing at pessimism edition
Vote for the winner of the RTT Hail Mary Haiku, Vanderbilt Commodore edition
Current standings in the RTT College Pick 'Em game
By popular request, Rocky Top Talk attempts to go negative (sorry!)
Talking Points: Neyland Stadium is Mt. Doom edition
Unit bell curve: Tennessee Volunteers v. Arkansas Razorbacks -- shiny gold stars for everybody!
RTT draft BlogPoll ballot: week 12
Hail Mary Haiku: Vanderbilt Commodore edition
Post game awards: Tennessee Volunteers v. Arkansas Razorbacks
Tennessee Volunteers steal the show against the Arkansas Razorbacks, 34-13
Tennessee Volunteers v. Arkansas Razorbacks open game thread
Friday evening notebook nuking
Tennessee Volunteers v. Temple Owls: open game thread
Q&A with Razorback Expats
And now a word from our players . . .
Ginormity Defined: Tennessee-Arkansas Preview
Animated BlogPoll: Eagles are tasty, pachyderms are fun edition
New Tennessee Volunteer YouTubes
How a nuclear engineering Ph.D. candidate solves a problem like McFadden
Countrybob edges by the Vol Navy in a hastily constructed raft sponsored by Yellow Wood
Vote for the winner of the RTT Hail Mary Haiku, Arkansas Razorback edition
How do you solve a problem like McFadden, part II
Final RTT BlogPoll ballot: week 11
How do you solve a problem like McFadden, part I
Somebody's thrown drunk girls through Josh McNeil's window
Talking Points: McFadden, McFadden, McFadden . . . Stoerner edition
BlogPoller Disorder: Hello. Depressive, here.
Hail Mary Haiku: Arkansas Razorbacks edition
LSU Tigers 41, Alabama Crimson Tide 34: animated drive chart
Tennessee Volunteers dominate Ragin' Cajuns for a 59-7 Homecoming victory
Cajun's hair nearly deploys upon impact: Tennessee Volunteers shatter Louisiana-Lafayette 59-7
Tennessee Volunteers v. Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns untelevised (!) open game thread
3T&CoD: UL-Laf, UL-Cry, UL-Have to Watch the Replay Because It's Not on TV
Don't You Want Me, Saban?
Talking Points: Saban, Criticism, and Coker edition
Vote for the winner of the RTT Ragin' Cajuns Hail Mary Haiku

October - 2007

Animated BlogPoll: a meteoric reprieve or Ooooh, an eagle!
LaMarcus Coker and Demonte Bolden suspended for homecoming game
Talking Points: special yummy but quick lunchtime edition
Vol Navy still chugging along
BlogPoller Disorder: A Tale of Two Voters
3 Thoughts and a False Start and a Cloud of Dust: Carolina Stuffs
Hail Mary Haiku: Ragin' Cajuns edition
Tennessee Volunteers - South Carolina Gamecocks post game awards
Vols take the wheel, nearly drive off a cliff: Tennessee Volunteers 27, South Carolina Gamecocks 24
Georgia Bulldogs 42, Florida Gators 30: animated drive chart
Tennessee Volunteers v. South Carolina Gamecocks open game thread
Mississippi State Bulldogs 31, Kentucky Wildcats 14: animated drive chart
SEC East open game thread: 'Dogs, 'Dogs, and Not Dogs
3 Thoughts and a Cloud of Dust: Spurrier Predict..., er..., Wishes?
Animated BlogPoll: just another week in the boathouse edition
Lunchtime media links
Interview on The Sports Tap's Around the South
The Vol Navy goes full steam ahead in the RTT College Pick 'Em Game
Talking Points: closing the book on Alabama and opening something on Steve Spurrier
Question of the day
Final BlogPoll ballot: week nine
We need a Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
Yankees headed south for Tennessee-Arkansas need your help
Question(s) of the day: Montario Hardesty calls in frustrated
Tennessee-Alabama post game awards
Hail Mary Haiku: Steve Spurrier edition
Draft BlogPoll ballot: week nine or "weighting empty zereos"
Alabama Crimson Tide 41, Tennessee Volunteers 17: a few of my not favorite things
Tennessee Volunteers v. Alabama Crimson Tide: open game thread
3 Thoughts and a Cloud of Dust: Bama Predictions
Animated BlogPoll: Werewolf tamed, Cal fame short-lived
Proof That the Third Saturday Still Means Something: Finebaum Says it Doesn't
BlogPoller Disorder: Forget Everything You Think You Know
Rocky Top Talk goes double dark
Hail Mary Haiku: Alabama Crimson Tide edition
Opportunity forgoes that knocking nonsense and makes itself at home
The Gig Bame: Tennessee Volunteers survive gandwich same versus the Pimmississi Mate Dullbogs
And then there were none: Kentucky Wildcats 43, LSU Tigers 37
Tennessee Volunteers - Mississippi State Bulldogs open game thread
'It's Still Pretty Obvious that Fulmer Needs to Go... I'll Hang Up and Listen'
Animated BlogPoll: tree suspended, alcohol cited edition
Talking points: email your snail mail now, and watch for a letdown
Countrybob leads the way in the RTT College Pick 'Em game
Vote for the winner of the Tennessee-Mississippi State Hail Mary Haiku
Talking points: I'm a man! I'm 40! And chronically behind!!
Final BlogPoll ballot: week seven
Tennessee-Georgia unit bell curve
Talking Points: Georgia fans are not rotten neighbors edition
3 Thoughts and a Cloud of Dust: Georgia Predictions Reviewed
SEC Power Poll: week seven
Draft BlogPoll ballot: week 7
Hail Mary Haiku: Bulldogs again edition?
Tennessee-Georgia post-game awards
In moving pictures: Tennessee Volunteers beat the Georgia Bulldogs, 35-14
Tennessee Volunteers - Georgia Bulldogs open game thread
3 Thoughts and a Cloud of Dust: Georgia Predictions... The Pressure Is On
Animated BlogPoll: annihilation edition
BlogPoll Roundtable
Interrogating Hey Jenny Slater and Georgia Sports Blog
Vote for the winner of the Tennessee-Georgia Hail Mary Haiku
Talking Points: child abuse edition
BlogPoll final ballot: week six
Is Wayne Chism Tony Joiner's girlfriend?
What? Tennessee-Mississippi State won't be televised
RTT College Pick 'Em game: pino takes the lead, in a way
SEC Power Poll: week six
BlogPoll draft ballot: weak six, and yes, I meant to spell it that way
Talking Points: the Commencement of Red October edition
Hail Mary Haiku: Georgia Bulldogs edition

September - 2007

Tennessee Volunteers safe in the shelter of a bye week
Flux Capacitor: UT/UGA 1994
Animated BlogPoll: funky zombies crave brains edition
Tennessee Volunteer basketball player Duke Crews suspended
Talking points: Vols and Dancing with the Stars just needs a hug edition
Tennessee-Arkansas State unit bell curve
BlogPoller Disorder: Rough Draft, Week 6
Tennessee-Georgia set for 3:30 EST on CBS
A little help: this week's Animated BlogPoll
Arkansas State Indians at Tennessee Volunteers: post-game awards
Arkansas State at Tennessee: animated drive chart and flash stats
Tennessee 48, Arkansas State 27: early thoughts
Tennessee-Arkansas State game day open thread
Animated BlogPoll: T-bowed edition
BlogPoll Roundtable 3.2: cicada alchemy and fables edition
Vote for the winner of the Tennessee-Arkansas State Hail Mary Haiku
Talking Points: the residue of hate edition
Did a Tennessee Volunteer special teams player quit against the Florida Gators?
Recruiting WOO! Rodriguez Wilks Commits to UT
Hobgoblins! That's Tennessee's Problem!
Examining Tennessee's punt coverage: with video and soothing anti-emetic soundtrack!
RTT final BlogPoll ballot: week four
Tennessee-Florida unit bell curve
Hail Mary Haiku: Arkansas State Indians edition
RTT College Pick 'Em game results: Porter takes the lead
The RTT SEC Power Poll ballot: week four
Draft BlogPoll ballot: week four
Racing through the five stages of grief
Tennessee Volunteers-Florida Gators: Flash stats
Tennessee-Florida: post-game awards
3 Thoughts and a Cloud of Dust: Mojo Falling
Louisville-Kentucky animated drive chart: the Revenge of Randy Sanders, Chapter I
The Gig Bame: I live in a place called Dishumiliarrassment
Tennessee-Florida animated drive chart: still ugly in color
Florida 59, Tennessee 20: early random, reckless, ranting
Tennessee-Florida game day open thread: reclaiming the cheese
Talking Points: Florida Chest Bump Friday edition!
Animated BlogPoll: merciless werewolf with chainsaw edition
Orson Swindle, marinated in hate and wrapped in malevolence, welcome!
Vote for the winner of the Florida week Hail Mary Haiku
Corn from a Jar Podcast: Feel the Hate with Orson Swindle
Talking Points: Run, Forrest; Foster, run! Straight to Miley World!
RTT final BlogPoll ballot: week three
Coach Fulmer: fetish a game of Erica, mortifying football, and boasts of law
Eating the Enemy: here, gator, gator, gator
Talking Points: more dramatic than Hornswoggle edition
Rocky Top Talk College Pick 'Em: TennHeel still out front
Unit bell curve: Tennessee-Southern Miss
RTT's SEC Power Poll ballot: week three
RTT preliminary BlogPoll ballot: week three
Florida Gator linkage
Hail Mary Haiku: Florida Gators edition
Tennessee-Southern Miss: post-game awards
Tennessee-Southern Miss Flash stats
Tennessee-Southern Miss animated drive chart
The Gig Bame: somebody tade a mackle against Mother'n Siss!
Tennessee-Southern Miss: first thoughts
Tennessee-Southern Miss Game Day open thread
Breaking news: Corn from a Jar loses the RTT Hail Mary Haiku
Tennessee-Southern Miss danger and go zones : argh!!!
Vote for the winner of the Tennessee-Southern Miss Hail Mary Haiku
Three Thoughts and a Cloud of Dust: Send Lawyers, Guns, and Berry and Get Me Out of This
The Animated BlogPoll: happy, lethal cupcake edition
Talking Points: Shaq's divorce, toilet paper, and trees edition
Injured Tennessee defensive end Xavier Mitchell feeling fine, not yet cleared to play
Final RTT BlogPoll ballot: week two
Eating the Enemy: Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Unit bell curve: Tennessee-Cal edition
Hail Mary Haiku: Southern Miss Golden Eagles edition
Rocky Top Talk College Pick 'Em: TennHeel out in front with perfect picks
Tennessee-Cal: post-game awards
SEC Power Poll: week two
BlogPoll: week two
The Gig Bame: too tenny muchdowns
Tennessee-Cal animated drive chart
Tennessee defensive end Xavier Mitchell's injury "quite likely" a concussion
No news yet on injured Tennessee football player Xavier Mitchell
Tennessee-Cal Game Day open thread
What I'm Watching, Week 1

August - 2007

It's the anticipation
Talking Points: my, that's an extraordinarily large bear edition
Danger and go zones: Tennessee defense v. Cal offense
Vote for the winner of the Tennessee-Cal Hail Mary Haiku
And the [delta? shakes!]
Danger and Go Zones: Tennessee offense v. Cal defense
The 2007 Animated BlogPoll: preseason
Recruiting WOO! Preston Bailey Commits to UT
Talking Points: women pirates disinterested in modular homes edition
Corn from a Jar Podcast, Pre-Cal Edition
RTT's final preseason BlogPoll
Eating the Enemy: Cal Golden Bears edition
Talking Points: you can't see the lunar eclipse from Knoxville or Berkeley edition
Woo! or Whatever: somewhere in Berkeley ten people are sort of excited
Confidence levels: Tennessee Volunteer defense
Confidence levels: Tennessee Volunteer offense
Must-See UT: Putting a Wrap on 2006
Talking Points: Mars will not look like another moon today edition
Cal linkage
Hail Mary Haiku returns!
Preseason BlogPoll Roundtable
Only LaMarcus Coker can save LaMarcus Coker
Talking Points: more important than Bridget Moynahan's baby edition
One answer to The Question vanishes: tight end Brad Cottam out for 2-3 months
BlogPoll Ballot Revised, Still Awful
Talking Points: XOS PlayAction Quarterback Simulator edition
A cloud of dust goes up in smoke: whatever happened to the Tennessee running game?
Great news for Tennessee Volunteer DE Ben Martin: no torn ligaments
Bridge out for Tennessee-Cal game! Kanu and groovy Google map here to help
Bile! Memories of Penn State's Tony Hunt
Talking Points: no discernible theme edition
BlogPoller Disorder: Ballot Prewriting
Talking Points: like the Branson-Colbert fight, but . . . football!
Talking Points: magic google aggregator edition
On the succession of black belts in the venutian arts: Is Eric Berry 2007's Tim Tebow?
Ranking the Volunteers' 2007 games: from Hate! to Who?
The Voices In My Head Discuss the 3-4 Defense
Talking Points: phrogging and Eric Berry edition
Talking Points: del.icio.us aftertaste and serious tongue lashings edition
Flux capacitor: 8-14-06, Cutcliffe quells a quarterback controversy
And the winner is . . . best play of 2006
Air Force and the flexbone flummoxation: re-living the Tennessee Volunteers' 2006 season, part 2
Cotton for Joel, or "lol jolz annavershuriez"
Two years in the sports blogosphere: somebody get me some undies!
The Tennessee Volunteers 2006 season recap: California
Talking Points: bad news leads, Coker still enigmatic edition
Talking Points: good news, bad news, and indifference edition
Only LaMarcus Coker can stop LaMarcus Coker
Tennessee running back LaMarcus Coker suspended for mysterious medical condition? Really?
Talking Points: people will be hitting each other today, if they can catch them
Best plays of 2006: the championship. Got a man . . . it's caught v. XTFL
RTT del.icio.us week in review
Tennessee Volunteer football players hit the practice field, RTT makes plans for its season, too
Tennessee Volunteers No. 15 on preseason USA Today Coaches Poll
Best plays of 2006: Got a man . . . it's caught! v. The Cover
Rocky Top Talking Points: spotlights and serpents in the SEC West edition
Best plays of 2006: Hardesty's TD against Cal or X's TFL against Air Force?

July - 2007

Best plays of 2006: the Final Four
Best plays of 2006: The Cover v. Colquitt's geometry lesson
RTT on hating Spurrier, UT's best game, and Tennessee's biggest rival
Best plays of 2006: Wicked, tricksey v. "Got a man . . . it's caught!"
Best plays of 2006: second round complete
Best plays of 2006: XTFL or "Derek Smith"
Best plays of 2006: they might have another touchdown! v. Coker's Encore
Dane Bradshaw is no Scottie Pippen: a review of Vertical Leap
Best plays of 2006: Hardesty, Coker, X, and "Derek Smith" emerge victorious
Recruiting Board Rolling Update - Linebackers
Best plays of 2006: Colquitt's geometry lesson or Ainge and Meachem's math?
Best plays of 2006: Wardlow or Hefney?
Tennessee Volunteers: Best plays of 2006, M. Mitchell v. Crompton to Ainge Meachem!
RTT Exclusive: a text message to Tennessee's VHTs
Tennessee Volunteers: Best plays of 2006 tournament, Taylor to Coker or still more Hefney
Rocky Top Talking Points: link dump!
Tennessee Volunteers: Best plays of 2006 tournament, Ainge-Meachem, or Coker?
Tennessee Volunteers Best plays of 2006 tournament, Mitchell v. Stewart
Tennessee Volunteers Best Plays of 2006: Morley v. Coker
Volunteers best plays of 2006: Hardesty v. Coker
Tennessee Volunteers: Best plays of 2006 tournament
Who Needs NCAA 08 When You've Got Tecmo Bowl... College Style!
Tennessee's class of 2007: where'd we get it wrong?
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 1, athlete Eric Berry
YouTube is sooooo yesterday
Rocky Top Talking Points: a faint whiff of football edition
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 2, DE Ben Martin
How Would You Finish (or Open) the 2009 Football Schedule?
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 3, WR Brent Vinson
Tennessee Volunteer Inky Johnson is practicing with the team
Recruiting Board Rolling Update - Defensive Line
Trooper Taylor's raise makes him the Volunteers' highest paid assistant
Sports Blog Infomercial, Take One
Rocky Top Talking Points: black is the new white edition
Rocky Top Talk fills Neyland Stadium
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 4, WR Ahmad Paige
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 5, RB Lennon Creer
Take 2 for Take 6's Star Spangled Banner
Rocky Top Talking Points: Paul Westerdawg is a bad, bad man edition
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 6, DE Rae Sykes
Inbox! Questioning the Rocky Top Talk Jars System

June - 2007

Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 7, WR Gerald Jones
Recruiting Board Rolling Update - TEs and OLs
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 8, LB Chris Donald
Flux Capacitor: Two QB systems and the 2005 Tennessee Volunteers
Congratulations! You are $4.95 richer. Please send your personal information
Is the Roundtable still open for business?
Recruiting Board Rolling Update - WRs
Time Capsule: Volunteer receivers coach Trooper Taylor a barrel full of laughs, wisdom
Blake Mitchell . . . dancin' in my sleep
Recruiting Board Rolling Update - QBs and RBs
Blake Mitchell feels like dancin', dancin'
Rocky Top Talking Points: where'd the weekend go edition
A College World Series rematch
Smith to join Smith and Smith on the hardwood -- this year
NCAA clarifies its position on live-blogging events, digs itself a hole
Rocky Top Talking Points: beware of the boomerang edition
Pat Summit hospitalized for dehydration
Rocky Top Talking Points: basketball league and FanHouse edition
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 9, LB Chris Walker
Rules? We got rules now?
Is there such a thing as too much basketball or football?
Rocky Top Talking Points: Who takes the East edition
Rocky Top Talk on Roll Bama Roll on the Tennessee Volunteers
Rocky Top Talking Points: it's Saturday edition
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 10, DT Rolando Melancon
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 11, S Deshaun Barnes
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 12, OL Darris Sawtelle
Rocky Top Talking Points: on Inky Johnson edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: Mears passes, Holdsclaw retires edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: Shaky liftoff edition
We interrupt this vacation to bring you . . . huh?
Who should replace Delmonico? A few suggestions...
Rocky Top Talking Points: keep your pants on edition

May - 2007

Rocky Top Talking Points: Keeping up with the Smiths and more edition
Tennessee and the Rivals 100
Rocky Top Talking Points: Um, stuff edition
Distillation & Distribution 5/29/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 13, WR Todd Campbell
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 14, WR Darnius Moore
Distillation & Distribution 5/24/07
College Football Flux Capacitor: Unearthing archaic headlines
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 15, S Nevin McKenzie
Recruiting Board Update 5/22/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 16, DT William Brimfield
Rocky Top Talking Points: Fulmer Cup, rankings, Gameday, critics, and more
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 17, WR Kenny O'Neal
Big Orange Flux Capacitor: Tennessee/Vandy 1951; part 2
Okay, so this is me
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 18, DE Rufus Williams
Recruiting Board Update 5/15/07
SB Nation Sports Report tonight
Rocky Top Talking Points: SMQ on Tennessee edition
Second chances to catch features on coaches Fulmer and Pearl on headcoach.tv
Blogosphere Flux Capacitor: Joel Hollingsworth, Rockstar!
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 19, RB Daryl Vereen
Big Orange Flux Capacitor: Tennessee v. Vanderbilt, 1951 style
Distillation & Distribution solicits opinion
Distillation and Distribution 5/9/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 20, CB DeAngelo Willingham
Rocky Top Talking Points: QB controversy morphs into GA controvery edition
Distillation & Distribution 5/7/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 21, OL Cody Pope
Distillation & Distribution carries the load, plus a little YouTubery
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 22, CB Art Evans
Distillation and Distributuion makes the grade
Rocky Top Talking Points: New vids! Perennial losers! and the always gracious Pat Summitt
College Football Flux Capacitor: Retro-blogging two-platoon football
Distillation & Distribution 5/2/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 23, CB C.J. Fleming

April - 2007

Distillation & Distribution 4/30/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 24, DT Donald Langley
New Orleans takes Marvin Mitchell in the 7th round of the NFL draft
St. Louis takes Jonathan Wade in the third round
Arron Sears and Turk McBride selected in the second round of the NFL draft
New Orleans picks Robert Meachem No. 27 overall in the NFL draft
Green Bay picks Justin Harrell No. 16 overall in the NFL draft
Distillation & Distribution 4/27/07
One Tennessean's embarrassing confession: a preemptive strike
Distillation & Distribution 4/26/07
Getting to know Tennessee class of 2007: No. 25, RB Dennis Rogan
Distillation & Distribution: the last thing I'll say about spring game attendance ever. Maybe.
Rocky Top Talking Points: on former former players, former players, and 'Bama smack
Distillation and Distribution 4/24/07
Rocky Top Talking Points: catching up edition
Distillation & Distribution takes the day off, but not to watch practice
NFL Draft Profile: Defensive Tackle Justin Harrell
Recruiting 2008: Running backs
Distillation & Distribution 4/20/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 26, QB BJ Coleman
Distillation & Distribution 4/19/07
Rocky Top Talking Points: What's up with SBN edition
Distillation& Distribution 4/18/07
Getting to know Tennessee's class of 2007: No. 28, linebacker Savion Frazier
Distillation & Distribution 4/17/07
The college sports blogosphere on the Virginia Tech tragedy
A moment of silence for Virginia Tech students and families
Getting to know Tennessee's new recruits: No. 28, athlete Anthony Anderson
Recruiting 2008: the Quarterbacks
Getting to know Tennessee's new recruits: No. 29, WR Tyler Maples
Rocky Top Talking Points: Time keeps slippin' edition
Getting to know Tennessee's new recruits: No. 30, RB Josh Hawkins
Rocky Top Talking Points: racing and re-tooling edition
Getting to know Tennessee's new recruits: No. 31, FB Kevin Cooper
Rocky Top Talking Points: mostly controversy edition
Getting to know Tennessee's new recruiting class: No. 32 -- Cory Hall
NFL Draft Player Profile: Wide Receiver Robert Meachem
Lady Vols claim 7th national title with a 59-46 win over Rutgers
Lady Vols National Championship game day open thread
Money! is money. And the king. And the winner.
Rocky Top Talking Points: on ladies, men, and spring football
Orange and White game more of an indistinguishable gray
Rocky Top Talk NCAA Bracket Challenge update
Tennessee Lady Vols v. North Carolina Tarheels: Final Four open thread

March - 2007

Winter Eve: Vols' Orange and White game kicks off tomorrow
Corn from a Jar Podcast: Closing the book on basketball, sort of
Rocky Top Talking Points: Jack Bauer in the booth edition
A blogger's favorite April Fool's Day Prank
Tennessee Lady Vols v. Awkward Ole Miss Rebels: game day open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: who knew edition
Recruiting Board rough draft
Corn from a Jar's Six Maxims of Recruiting Coverage
Rocky Top Talk NCAA Bracket Challenge: final four edition
Is Chris Lofton the next Gilbert Arenas?
Chief and staff kick tail at scrimmage, kick back at Bristol
Lady Vols v. Marist Red Foxes game day open thread
Peyton Manning to appear foolish on Saturday Night Live
Remember the Alamodome: Tennessee Volunteers lose to Ohio State, gain future rallying cry
It's Sweet 16 Time in Tennessee! Vols-Buckeyes Open Thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: Buckeyes, Bruce, and bibs edition
Q&A with SBN Ohio State blog Around the Oval
A technical perspective on Erik Ainge's knee surgery
Y'all can go to Hades, we're going to Texas
Where the Orange Fern Grows: A Tennessee basketball stratagem
Rocky Top Talking Points: big orange surgeons steal Ainge's meniscus edition
Volunteers over Cavaliers, 77-74: somebody say wooo!
Time Capsule: Double Shocker: Vols lose to Witchita State and TiVo disappoints
Rocky Top Talk NCAA Bracket Challenge: post-Round 2
Rocky Top Talk NCAA Bracket Challenge: Halfway through Round 2
Virginia cram session: Volunteers-Cavaliers game day open thread
49ers score 86 -- and lose by 35 to Tennessee
Rocky Top Talk NCAA Bracket Challenge: Round 1
Rocky Top Talk NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge update
It's Tourney Time in Tennessee! Vols-49ers open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: there's other stuff, you know edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: just another day edition
Corn from a Jar Podcast: 1st Annual CFAJ Podcast Bracket Extravaganza!
Rocky Top Talking Points: mood-altering media edition
Time Capsule: Wingate, snakes, and the Battle of Bull Run
Patrick Creaven Returns: more stuff! more stuff! more stuff!
Rocky Top Talking Points: madness, moonshine, and bipolar disorder edition
Call the 'SHINE LINE, operators are standing by
The scoop on Long Beach State, this time from someone who knows
Rocky Top Talking Points: sheer madness edition
Tennessee Volunteers v. Long Beach State 49ers, a work in progress
Brackets, baby, brackets! NCAA Tournament selection open thread
Coach Hulk couldn't smash through SEC barrier, will NCAAs be any different?
Rocky Top Talking Points: the skinny on the sports blogosphere's inside jokes and more edition
Day, players too long for Vols, lose to LSU in overtime
LSU coach John Brady sings Rocky Top
LSU coach John Brady sings Rocky Top: Tennessee-LSU open thread
BREAKING: Tennessean reporting that Ainge is to have surgery to repair meniscus
Rocky Top Talking Points: save your posts, people edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: etc., etc., etc. edition
Time Capsule: Football Vols get back to basics in effort to rise from the ash
Rocky Top Talking Points: the complete continuum of maturity edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: Uh-oh, oooh, and argh edition
Time Capsule: managing expectations on the hardwood and the gridiron
Your mission, should you choose to accept it ...
Tennessee-Georgia game day open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: all the news on Rocky Top edition
At least it's not Appalachian State: '07 and '08 home openers changed
Rocky Top Talking Points: alarm clock malfunction edition

February - 2007

Rocky Top Talking Points: Gator, Gator, Gator edition
Blender, Hulk smash Abomination: Bradshaw, Vols rout defending national champs
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: Return of the Abomination: Tennessee-Florida game day open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: fender bender edition
Dick Vitale accidentally divulges Florida coach Billy Donovan's secret musings
Rocky Top Talking Points: Abominable Smurfs edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: Sunday, random Sunday edition
Arkansas, shmarkansas. It's just another away game: Vols-Road open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: It's spring again in Tennessee
Time Capsule: Bradshaw's sweet steal-and-spin move seals Vols' victory over Gators
A tale of two bubbles: Tennessee's win over Alabama
No margin for error in the Rocky Top Thunderdome: Vols-Tide open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: Glue, pressure, & margin of error edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: Inmate running the asylum edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: ripping, recruiting, growing, and shining edition
Forget the pecking order: it's the road that kills in the SEC
Rocky Top Talk to be featured on ProTrade
Tennessee v. The Away Game: Vols-Gamecocks open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: an eyebrow-raising picture edition
Tennessee Basketball: Are they or aren't they?
Bubble Wrap: Hulk smash Wendigo, turn talk to seeds
Corn from a Jar Podcast: Recruits!, Baseball?, and Hoops!?!?
Hulk and the Pantheon host The Wendigo: Tennessee-Kentucky open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: second chances edition
Hulk Smash 'Dores, Chism and company destroy Vandy
The maddening march to March Madness: Where do the Vols at-large hopes stand?
Hulk and the Pantheon host The Leader: Vols-Commodores game day open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: giant orange yard sale edition
Bears fan loses bet, changes name to Peyton Manning
A Haul for Y'all: Tennessee lands another top five recruiting class
Time Capsule: the gamma radiation game
Rocky Top Talking Points: recruiting, creepy but woooooo!!! edition
Hulk Smash Tigers! Vols beat LSU 70-67
Tennessee-LSU game day open thread: now every game counts
Rocky Top Talking Points: just call me Peyton edition
Nice Guy Peyton Manning gets gator off his back
Rocky Top Talking Points: Waiting on the Super Bowl edition
Hulk and the Pantheon take on The Abomination: Vols-Gators game day open thread
Breaking News: Corn from a Jar not dead
Rocky Top Talking Points: And now back to our regularly scheduled programming edition
The 2006 College Football Blogger Awards: The Mythical National Champion
The 2006 College Football Blogger Awards: Best Big 12 Blog
The 2006 College Football Blogger Awards: The Best Community Award

January - 2007

The 2006 College Football Blogger Awards: The Jay Sherman Award
The 2006 College Football Blogger Awards: Best New Blog
Discombobulator still sidelined, Peyton Manning still heading to the Super Bowl
Rocky Top Talking Points: random, random, random edition
Tennessee-Kentucky game day open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: It's game day, right? edition
"Nine wins is OK at Tennessee": Reassessing fan expectations once again
Rocky Top Talking Points: spring ladies all-star walking boot edition
Corn from a Jar Podcast: Hoops, Recruiting, Manning
Rocky Top Talking Points: on injuries, rivalries, and salaries
Hulk smash!
Rocky Top Talking Points: etc., etc., etc. edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: going places edition
Paul Westerdawg: Coach Fulmer earns distinction of leading the "Camel Club"
SBN College Basketball Top 25
Alabama blog threatens Smokey, activist group attempts intervention
Tennessee-South Carolina game day open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: it's not easy being green edition
Road Blocked: Tennessee falls to Auburn, 83-80
Tennessee-Auburn game day open thread
Rocky Top Talking Points: Smith, Manning, Fulmer edition
A view of Fulmer from the outside
Rocky Top Talking Points: voting day edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: random Monday edition
Rocky Top Talking Points: Buzzer beaten, again edition
Tennessee-Ohio State open thread
Sorting through the Wayne Chism questions
Rocky Top Talking Points: too little time edition
Three Dribbles and a Pass: Vandy ARGHHH!
Maxwell Pundit: Final Ballot
2006 College Football Blogger Awards: Official Nominees, The End of the Road
Hoops! Vols at Vanderbilt
The 2006 College Football Blogger Award: Official Nominees
Final BlogPoll
What's the difference between Florida and Tennessee?
Animated Drive Chart: BCS National Championship Game, Florida Gators demoralize Ohio State Buckeyes
Rocky Top Talking Points: segues working nicely edition
Howdy, y'all.
Rocky Top Talking Points: good news, bad news edition
Tennessee v. Mississippi State game day open thread
The 2006 College Football Blogger Awards: still pending!
GoVolsXtra: sources say Robert Meachem going pro
The Animated Drive Chart Carousel, Bowl Edition W00t!, with Sugar Bowl!
Animated Drive Chart: the smiling Orange Bowl: Louisville Cardinals v. Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Nick Saban to coach Alabama Crimson Tide
Rocky Top Talking Points: Outback hangover edition
Outback Bowl: post-game awards
The 2006 College Football Blogger Awards: official nominations pending
Animated Drive Chart: 2006-07 Fiesta Bowl, Oklahoma Sooners v. Boise State Broncos
Animated Drive Chart: 2006-2007 Rose Bowl, USC Trojans v. Michigan Wolverines
Animated Drive Chart: Outback Bowl, Tennessee Volunteers v. Penn State Nittany Lions
Outback Bowl: Penn State wins 20-10 with the Tonies
Outback Bowl Game Day open thread

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