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Kim Caldwell has been the Lady Vols basketball coach for only one month but has not wasted time putting together her roster for next season through the transfer portal. Caldwell has kept her players home while filling holes in the roster through portal additions. Tess Darby and Jewel Spear are both returning, and they combined for 18.3 points and 7.8 rebounds per game last season. Caldwell has signed Syracuse transfer forward Alyssa Latham in the transfer portal, who averaged 8.6 points per game, 7.0 rebounds per game, and 1.3 blocks per game last season as a freshman. Miami transfer…
Who is Tony Vitello’s wife? Renae Vitello is the wife of Tony Vitello, the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team. Renae and Tony have been married since 2003 and have three children together. Renae is a former college softball player and currently works as a teacher. Who is Renae Vitello? Renae Vitello was born in 1981 in Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri, where she played softball for the Tigers. Renae was a two-time All-Big 12 selection and helped lead the Tigers to the Women’s College World Series in 2001. After graduating from college, Renae played professionally…
Tony Vitello was hired to lead the University of Tennessee’s baseball program in 2017, taking over a struggling program looking to compete in a conference dominated by in-state rival Vanderbilt. All of that has changed in his seven years at Tennessee. Vitello has won nearly 300 games as the Vols’ head coach, including a program-best 60 wins in 2024. Not only did Tennessee win 60 games, but they also won the regular-season SEC Championship, SEC Tournament, and the men’s College World Series. This is the first time an SEC team has won 60 games in a season and the fourth…
The former collegiate rivals have faced off again in the WNBA. The pair made headlines after one of Angel’s teammates fouled Caitlin—and Angel was seen clapping. But this is the first time they’ll be on the same side of the court. A little more about their competition: On June 1 Caitlin’s Indiana Fever hosted Angel’s Chicago Sky, in the players’ first match-up since their Elite Eight game in 2024 March Madness. (There, Caitlin’s Hawkeyes came out on top, but lost in the finals to South Carolina.) Indiana won the game by one point, but the team is instead making headlines…
A standout 2024 WNBA draft class has already made its mark three months into the season. At the midway point, ahead of Saturday’s All-Star Game, its two biggest stars have set records.Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are not the players making impact The All-Star Game in Phoenix precedes the Paris Olympics this summer, and signals the start of a month-long league break. It pits the U.S. women’s national team against a WNBA all-star squad that excludes players heading to Paris. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can cancel anytime. Subscribe The 2024 draft class was headlined by…
The former Oklahoma quarterback turned head coach has become a bit of a surprise hit, as he was never one of Tennessee football fans’ — or administration for that matter — first choices. But after three seasons, the Vols are 27-12 and 2-1 in bowl games under Heupel, making those in orange and white the happiest they’ve been in years.
Just one year after a historic playoff run that culminated in losing in the NBA Finals to the Denver Nuggets , the Miami Heat are stuck in the dreaded purgatory of NBA mediocrity. The 2023-24 season was a lost cause in South Beach as injuries, inconsistent effort and a roster relatively devoid of talent could only muster 46 wins and the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference. The Heat’s season then ended in a first-round playoff loss to the eventual champion Boston Celtics . That five-game drubbing by Boston was emblematic of how Miami has fallen so far in…
It is an outlook that essentially proves warranted as the American backs up the bravado to seal the sprint double in the season finale at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest last summer. Lyles likes to talk and such chat has not gone unnoticed by another figure in the series, Britain’s Zharnel Hughes. While Lyles, as ever, has been big and brash all season long winning the double at the American trials, including matching his PB of 9.83seconds in the 100m, to set up the potential for a Budapest repeat at the Paris Olympics, Hughes is somewhat more underrated and…
Kemba Nelson was in excellent form at World Continental Challenge competition in Switzerland. She was appointed an Alternate Person (AP) Reserve by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) to the women’s 4×100-meter relay squad to the Olympic Games in Paris. Nelson tied her season-best time of 11.04 seconds to finish third in the women’s 100-meter race at the LA Chaux-de Fonds Challenger meet. Nelson placed fifth in the same event at the National Championships. Mujinga Kambundji of Switzerland won the event in a meet record time of 10.90 seconds, besting her colleague Salome Kora’s personal defeating time of 10.95 seconds…
Tennessee will play in the 2024 West Palm Beach Classic on Dec. 20-21, the program announced Friday. The other teams in the tournament field have not been announced. The event will be held at Keiser University with game times and broadcast information to be released at a later date. Transfer guard Samara Spencer played in last year’s tournament with Arkansas. The tournament field also included Baylor, Illinois, San Diego State and South Florida.