KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — College Football Hall of Famer Johnny Majors, the coach of Pittsburgh’s 1976 national championship team and a former coach and star player at Tennessee, died Wednesday. He was 85.
A professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has been arrested for allegedly concealing his ties with a Chinese university, and engaging in wire fraud. According to the DOJ, he conspired with China to defraud NASA to get federal funding.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president Kyler Kayanek told Breitbart News that while attempting to recruit TPUSA members on campus, school officials approached his group and told them that they were not allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights in the public square of the university. Kayanek spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview for the show’s TPUSA campus report.
Police have released footage of the September arrest Tennessee linebacker Jeremy Banks, where he tells officers, “Where I’m from, we shoot at cops.”
The University of Tennessee has offered a scholarship to the Florida student bullied for wearing a homemade Vols t-shirt during his school’s College Colors Day.
A group of students protested what they feel is an overly lenient response to a blackface incident by University of Tennessee administrators.
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, senior Brenna Spencer is standing by her decision to pose with a gun in her waistband for a graduation photograph.
The leftist, internet rabble-rousing site Change.org launched a petition to stop the University of Tennessee’s “Pride of the Southland” band from partaking in the Inauguration Day parade for President-elect Donald Trump.
A watchdog group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville uncovered what it called a “disturbing trend” of anti-Semitic behavior on campus, with several students’ social media posts denigrating the Jewish faith and praising Adolf Hitler, The Algemeiner reported.
On Wednesday, as part of a lawsuit brought by six women against the University of Tennessee, a new legal filing asserted football coach Butch Jones told a player he had “betrayed the team” for helping a woman claiming she had been raped by two of the player’s teammates.
On Tuesday, the women’s group Ultraviolet called for advertisers to drop Peyton Manning as their spokesman, citing an alleged incident from 1996 in which Manning supposedly exposed himself to a female trainer at the University of Tennessee.
After the University of Tennessee’s Office of Diversity released its “inclusive holiday celebrations in the workplace” tips that excluded Secret Santa, Tennessee Republican representative Micah Van Huss (R) put forth legislation to defund the University’s controversial campus group.
The University of Tennessee, bucking political correctness, has ruled that the school’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion website will have to remove gender-neutral pronouns.
The University of Tennessee Knoxville posted a language guide Wednesday titled “Inclusive Practice: Pronoun Usage,” encouraging students to use non-“gender binary” words to describe their peers.
On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location.
