Rockytoptalk - rockytoptalk.com - Rocky Top Talk - All Posts
General Information:
Latest News:
100 Days of Vols #4 - Orange 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
While I tell people I'm from Tennessee, I wasn't born there, nor was my brother or the first of my three sisters. Before that, we lived northwest of Pittsburgh, near the Ohio state line. One day (I do...
Vols Press Conference Notes: Worley is (Officially) Starting 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
We've liveblogged the Monday press conference. If you want all the coach speak and all the everything, feel free to peruse the comments of our live thread. If you just want the highlights, we'll have...
Tennessee Football Monday Press Conference Thread 26 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
We'll be doing this every week during the season. The press conference is at 11:30, and you can watch it at utsports.com. This week's press conference is particularly exciting because Butch Jones will...
GoVolsXtra goes to a subscription model; Rocky Top Talk remains 100% free 26 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
So GoVolsXtra and the Knoxville News Sentinel have apparently erected a paywall and gone to a subscription-based system (at $12 per month or $13 if you want the paper, too) one week before football se...
100 Days of Vols #5 - Rocky Top (the song) 26 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm
It's not even the official school song, yet it's right at the top of the list of music you identify with Universities. And it's really not even close. When you hear Rocky Top, you think of the Univer...
100 Days of Vols #6 - Game Week 25 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
The offseasons have been longer than usual the last two years. No bowl game, no ending the season on a high note, little tangible proof that things were going to get better in the immediate future. ...
The Idiot Optimist's Guide to the 2013 Season 24 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
What do you mean, "The kool-aid tasted like bamboo?" And you were dumb enough to drink it? Listen, I've got it all figured out now. Everything...everything's been leading to Butch Jones. Butch Jone...
Grass Blue, Blood Orange 24 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
If you'll allow a moment of personal privilege, check out this new single from my friend J Roy Stephens. He doubles as the worship leader at Keith Memorial United Methodist here in Athens, TN where I...
100 Days of Vols #7 - Neyland Stadium 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Before all the new bells and whistles -- beautiful brick facades, the ritzy external resurfacing of the Tom Elam Pressbox, concourse upgrades and statue of General Robert Neyland -- I loved the guts. ...
100 Days of Vols #8 - The Rain Games 23 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
In each of the last three Septembers fans attending a home game at Neyland Stadium have been greeted by torrential downpours. In 2010 we partied in the rain against Oregon, a brief delay allowing our...
