Visitors to Tennessee’s 56 state parks and natural areas have a chance to vote for their favorite one and also generate money to help support the parks system.

If all the TWRA’s about 100 statewide game wardens are as committed and conscientious as Wilson County’s Hunter Daniels, our fish and wildlife, fields and streams, are in good hands.

Goodbye, 2020 and really, thanks for nothing. You reminded me of the scene in Animal House when the new guys go to a fraternity rush party and wanted to hang out with the cool guys, but the frat brothers kept directing them to hang out with the not-so-cool guys.

According to historians, Native Americans made the first canoe out of birch bark about 10,000 years ago.

The NFL playoffs are quite unforgiving.

My mother was an extraordinary person. I suppose any son who was fortunate enough to have a loving, nurturing mother would consider his mother to be exceptional. Mine was blessed with a sharp mind along with loads of common sense – a rare combination.

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

The middle portion of the week is looking pretty good with partly sunny skies and temperatures likely hitting the 50-degree mark.

If you’re fishing in the Cumberland River and catch a giant, armor-plated prehistoric monster with a long bony snout, put it back.

As a new year unfolds, it’s time to reflect on the old.

Jan. 9, 1922 is the birthday of my late father, Frank Thomas McCall Sr. A veteran of World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps in the European theater. As an airplane mechanic, he never saw combat, but he lost his pilot and best friend who stepped on a landmine while taking a walk in t…

On a day where Derrick Henry entered hallowed company by becoming just the eighth man in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season, the Tennessee Titans star still wasn't completely happy with his performance.

The high temperatures this week will mostly be in the low 50s and the best chance of rain looks to be Wednesday night and Thursday at about 40%.

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s annual winter trout stocking is underway in 43 waters across the state.

Sizzling young NASCAR star Cole Custer admits he will be venturing into the unknown when he rolls into Nashville Superspeedway for June’s Cup Series race.

To the Editor:

Well, it seems like yesterday I was writing about the beginning of 2020. I’m serious. When I began to play my treasured Christmas music back in late November, I had a feeling I had just been listening to it a few months before. There just doesn’t seem to be as much time between annual holida…

Let’s call a slob a slob.

When the water turns hard, I figure that’s Mother Nature’s way of telling me it’s too cold to fish.

Fifteen games, their first 10-win season in 12 years, and it still comes down to this.

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ― Ansel Adams

After the round of winter weather and Arctic air that Middle Tennessee experienced for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a likely warming trend will take our high temperatures into the upper 50s by Wednesday afternoon.

During the last spring, summer and fall, Tennessee’s state parks provided welcome retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic, attracting record numbers of visitors and overnight campers.

A popular outdoors magazine recently had a cover photo of a black Labrador retriever that resembled our old dog, Buddy.