Joe Calhoun became an activist during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders.

Tuesday’s SEC schedule includes the Tennessee Volunteers (16-2, 3-2 SEC) versus the Kentucky Wildcats (14-4, 3-2 SEC), at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN.Buy tickets for Tennessee vs. Kentucky Tennessee

As the Great River Road follows the Mississippi River is passes through Tennessee, it meanders through similar rural territory that you'll find in Kentucky and is punctuated with one of the most famous cities in the South,

Marshall 2-11 0-0 5, Odiahi 1-2 0-0 2, Jackson 1-5 0-0 2, Lander 3-7 2-2 9, McHenry 5-16 5-5 16, Kalambay 3-10 0-0 7, Bayless 1-2 0-0 2, Keita 1-2 2-4 4, Thedford 4-7 1-1 10, Edelen 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-63 10-12 57.

A manager confronted shoplifting suspects outside a grocery store and ended up shooting the accused getaway driver, Tennessee police said.

Western Kentucky plays the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders after Tyrone Marshall scored 20 points in the Hilltoppers' 85-69 victory against the Kennesaw State Owls.

A 12-2 run to end the game silenced Wichita State’s upset bid over No. 24 Memphis, 61-53, Thursday night in the FedExForum.

Kyle Rittenhouse was met with hundreds of protestors when he came to speak in Memphis last year, and he's coming back in February.

Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts, as a rare winter storm brings bone-chilling temperatures and potentially historic snowfall to cities unused to harsh cold weather. In Texas, temperatures dropped to below freezing Monday night as winter weather began across the state.

Time to shuffle the teams and file another weekly ballot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. 1. Auburn (17-1) — Freshman guard Tahaad Pettiford, a 44% three-point shooter, carried the Tigers past Georgia. They’re off until Tennessee visits Saturday.

The Walnut Street Revenue is happening in Louisville next weekend. This year's theme will be the “Soulful Sounds of Derbytown.”

Incoming President Donald Trump will have the chance to appoint most of the directors who oversee America's biggest public utility after President Joe Biden failed to get TVA board nominees confirmed by the U.