Brandy Miller

On the eve of opening night of Tennessee's regular season, Bruce Pearl and his team are still on a learning curve.  Pearl brought a very talented roster into the off-season, but recently that look has changed dramatically.  Last season, the Vols ended their season with a tough loss to Oklahoma State in the second round of the NCAA tournament.  Though they'd have liked to have made it further, the Vols showed growth in key positions that would...  

Bruce Pearl loves to party. Here’s the Tennessee basketball coach having fun with a few co-eds (Orange Pride, perhaps?) prior to what appears to be a football game at Neyland Stadium in Tennessee. Back in the day, Pearl helped put our blog on the map with these photos of him having fun on a boat. [...]  

More photos » by Frederick Breedon - AP 7:00! Thompson-Boling! Running! Scoring! Turnovers! Excitement! Browse more photos » Bruce Pearl turned back into a carnival barker (we love that about him) at a recent press conference, urging fans to buy tickets to the Wyoming game. This...  

I write regarding sports columnist Loren Tate's Oct. 28 column on Illini football Coach Ron Zook. Shame on him. His "letter" to Zook was poor reporting. He doesn't speak for 90 percent of the Illini fans I know. Why didn't he cite Zook's quasi-military lifestyle when he was hired or when we went to the Rose Bowl?  

Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. •Sorry, golf fans ...  

More photos » by Wade Payne - AP If Bruce Pearl wasn't busy tonight, he'd be in the live game thread too. Also, is that tie reversable?! Browse more photos » Bruce Pearl goes for his 100th win as Tennessee's head coach tonight against the Bulldogs of UNC-Asheville (7:00 PM EST...  

More photos » by Ed Reinke - AP Browse more photos » Talking Points are going piecemeal today. Rather than dumping everything into one post, we're going to dribble it out throughout the morning. Mixing things up, we are. So SEC Basketball Media Days was yesterday, and the arrival of John Calipari is already amping things up...  

Host Southern California routed the No. 9 Vols 77-55 on Saturday, their worst loss since Pearl took over before the 2005-06 season.  

High School phenom Tobias Harris has signed on to play basketball with the University of Tennessee Volunteers. In what has been a highly anticipated announcement, the young man is quite possibly the biggest recruit that coach Bruce Pearl has landed in his five years as head coach at Tennessee. Harris was the No. 7 rated recruit in the nation by ESPN. While some publications have him as high as No. 5, he is the No. 1 rated power forward in the...  

Bruce Pearl has to be happy tonight, as his star recruiting prospect, five-star forward Tobias Harris of Dix Hills, N.Y., just announced his commitment to the University of Tennessee. Harris, rated seventh overall by ESPNU and universally regarded as a top-10 prospect in the Class of 2010, rolled with the Vols in favor of competing offers from Big East powers Louisville, Syracuse and West Virginia, Maryland and Georgia Tech from the ACC, and...  

Experience. Depth. Bruce Pearl. All of these are puzzle pieces to a potentially great season for Tennessee Vols basketball. The question is, will they all come together to form a championship picture? Bruce Pearl leads his boys into battle for another season. This, however, is no ordinary season. This season, his boys, are expected to do more than any other team he's had. This team is more talented, experienced, and deep than any team that's...  

Kentucky coach John Calipari said he "can't stand" the color orange. Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl said the road to the SEC Championship goes through Knoxville — again.  

Tennessee baseball has worn black as an alternate color for years, the football team broke out black jerseys on Halloween night, so now the ball bounces to men's basketball.  

KNS: Bruce Pearl on Black Uniforms As always, Pearl (along with Chris Lofton and Brandon Crump) offers great perspective on the balance between tradition and change.  

Bobby Maze does a great Bruce Pearl