Yearly Archives: 2026

What a run. The Pittsburgh Steelers announced today that head coach Mike Tomlin would be stepping down after 19 years, a run that made him the longest-tenured head coach in the league. There have been rumblings about Tomlin’s future in Pittsburgh for a while now. Steelers fans were getting restless after losing 7 playoff games in a row, dating back to 2016 when the team advanced to the AFC Championship before losing to the eventual Super Bowl winners, the New […]

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Stephen A. Smith made the slip when discussing the Texans during a live episode of ESPN’s First Take on Tuesday, January 13

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Trisha Yearwood has truly earned all the accolades that grace her mantel. The country music star has talent and charisma galore. She says she always wanted to be a singer, despite the fact that it’s a tough career with very few assurances and lots of pitfalls. Even so, she pursued that path with her whole […]

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Anna Leigh Waters has become the first-ever professional pickleball athlete to sign a deal with sporting giants Nike

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Before he was a country music superstar, Tracy Lawrence survived a mugging in Nashville that nearly cost him his life.  The “Time Marches On” singer recently reflected on the moment, which took place in downtown Nashville in May 1991. It still affects him today. We have the details below.  Tracy Lawrence Says the Incident Was a “Completely […]

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Teenage Tyler Childers. It’s always great to see videos of country music stars before they hit it big, and this clip is no exception. Below you’ll see a video of a 16-year-old Childers singing what I’m assuming is an original song (props to him for penning this one at such a young age, if he did), and it’s absolutely glorious. How did this video come to be? Well, the “Lady May” singer grew up in the hollers of Lawrence County, […]

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Sampling is becoming increasingly popular in modern day music. If you aren’t familiar with the practice, artists take existing songs and “sample” a portion of the original recording. It can be very obvious or it can sometimes be very subtle, but it’s been happening for a long, long time. The hip-hop genre made it way more commonplace in the 1980s, and the method of making new music from old is still very prominent today. Look at any hip hop tracklist […]

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That’s how you deal with trolls. President Donald Trump has never been shy about sparring with his critics. From the very first time he appeared in a GOP debate back in 2015 and insulted everybody from Rosie O’Donnell to his then-primary opponents (remember when he said he would “never” make fun of Rand Paul for his appearance even though there was plenty of material there?) the 45th and 47th president has proven time and time again that he’s not going […]

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With a push, shove, and a little teamwork, anything is possible. Read the feel good story about this cow rescue in Virginia here.

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Some surprising tracks here. It’s hard to understate just how much of a force to be reckoned with Chris Stapleton has become throughout his music career. With 11 Grammys, 19 CMA Awards, 11 ACM Awards and a plethora of other hardware from the likes of Billboard, the Americana Music Association, ASCAP and more, the Kentucky native is arguably the biggest and most critically-acclaimed country artist this century. Among all the awards, yesterday, Stapleton made history as the only artist to […]

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