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31 Jul

“Washing” Tennessee’s Relationship with ESPN

My, how things have changed…
If you’ve been keeping up with the happenings around Big Orange Country, you may be aware that Coach Fulmer spent some of his time post-SEC Media Days this week visiting the ESPN broadcast facilities in Bristol, Connecticut.  Not to be one who dwells overly in the past, I found this [...]

Posted in Bad Behavior, Cheating, College Football, Flashback, News & Notes, SEC Football, Sports Media by: lawvol
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28 Jul

Big Orange Roundtable: Week 4

King for the week!  This week’s Roundtable is hosted here at Gate 21

Oh, to be in Camelot!!!

Having, as Joel put it, taken the the sword from Rocky Top Talk — pointy-end first — and due to a complete lack of standards, this week’s Big Orange Roundtable is being hosted here at Gate 21.
At present the [...]

Posted in Big Orange Roundtable, College Football, Fark, Ramblings, SEC Football, Tennessee Home for the Visually Offensive, Video by: lawvol
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25 Jul

"Headlines, Links & Lies…LIVE!" Returns to Gate 21

Just a quick update on my efforts to remodel here at Gate 21 as football season approaches…
After a hiatus of about a month or so, my “Headlines, Links & Lies … LIVE!” widget is back in the sidebar here at Gate 21.  For the moment it lives in the right sidebar (for those of you [...]

Posted in Blogging, Headlines Links & Lies..., Site News by: lawvol
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25 Jul

Good Lawyers, Bad Lawyers, and Damned Lawyers…

Given the events of the last 24 hours, I think it is fair to say that Phillip Fulmer  is tired of lawyers.  Despite the fact that I am a lawyer, I would oftentimes tend to agree with him.
Having now had a chance to look at the Complaint ( PDF) filed by Wendell Smith in his [...]

Posted in Bad Behavior, Cheating, College Football, News & Notes, No Pass Out Checks, SEC Football by: lawvol
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24 Jul

The Great Punkin Fires Back: Fulmer Responds to Subpoena Issue

Only in the SEC do things like this happen…
One day Tim Tebow is being described as the second coming of the Messiah (HT to Joel at RTT), and then the next, Phillip Fulmer is getting served with a subpoena in a case filed against the NCAA by Wendell Smith’s ambulance chaser less-than-well-known attorneys.
Undeterred, however, the [...]

Posted in Bad Behavior, College Football, News & Notes, Rumor Mill, SEC Football, Sound Bites by: lawvol
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24 Jul

Some People Just Won’t Let a Bad Thing Die…

As 3SIB noted earlier today, the “Bama Boys” are at it again.
The Knoxville News-Sentinel and Tuscaloosa News are both reporting that Coach Phillip Fulmer was served with a deposition subpoena while attending the SEC Media Days in Birmingham earlier today by attorneys representing disgruntled ex-Alabama booster Wendell Smith in his defamation and libel suit against [...]

Posted in Bad Behavior, Cheating, College Football, SEC Fans, SEC Football by: lawvol
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22 Jul

Big Orange Roundtable: Week 3

This Week’s
Roundtable Host: Rocky
Top Talk [Byline] This
week’s Big Orange
Roundtable is hosted by
Joel over at Rocky Top
Talk. At present the
roundtable includes: 3rd
Saturday in Blogtober,
Fulmer’s Belly, Gate
21, Rocky Top Talk, Loser
With Socks, the World
According to MoonDog
(a/k/a MoonDog Sports),
The Power T, Your Mother
Slept With Wilt
Chamberlain, and the
SouthEastern Sports Blog.
If you’d like to join,
feel free to let us know. If
you want more information
on how the roundtable
works, you can check out
Ghost of Neyland’s
wonderful introduction
over at 3SIB. Anyway,
here are my thoughts

Posted in Big Orange Roundtable, Blogging, College Football, SEC Football by: lawvol
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16 Jul

Housekeeping and Trying Some New Things

Just a little FYI to both of you who read …
With football season approaching quickly (Whooo!) I’ve decided to do a little housekeeping here at Gate 21 before the silly season begins. Given the fact that I seem completely incapable of just leaving things alone when they are working, I am going to remodel a [...]

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