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The SportsLodge: Tuesday 3-Pointers

Check out the latest episode of The SportsLodge: Phillip Fulmer calls out Lane Kiffin; Mark Sanchez becomes a man; and the Colts fan from Sunday night needs to grow up. Click to watch:

Phillip Fulmer Calls Lane Kiffin 'Arrogant' on CBS Halftime Show

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer says Lane Kiffin's "arrogant attitude turned people off" and wondered how Kiffin was able to land prestigious head coaching jobs at Tennessee and Southern California. Fulmer, who now works as an analyst for CBS, was forced to resign by Tennessee after the 2008 season...

Rocky Sucession: Kiffin's Clandestine Hiring, Fulmer's Heartache

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt of FanHouse writer Clay Travis' "On Rocky Top," available today in bookstores and at Amazon.com. On the afternoon of Sunday, November 2, 2008 Mike Hamilton phones Volunteer Coach Phillip Fulmer on his cell. Hamilton asks Fulmer to meet him in his office at Stokely Athletic Center....

Kiffin Shatters SEC Coaching Mold

The SEC coaches meetings rolled into Destin, Fla., this week, and Lane Kiffin washed ashore. You know Kiffin, the man who brought a Molotov cocktail to the SEC tea party, the guy who coaches like tickets have to be sold for the latest WWE event. You halfway expect for him to enter press conferences wearing orange tights,...

Pat Summitt Wins 1,000th Game

There is a SportsCenter commercial with Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt where Kenny Mayne fires off puns that use the coach's name and team, only for Summitt to respond that she's got "this coaching thing down pat."I concur. Thursday night, Summitt became the first Division I coach, men's or women's, to...

Phillip Fulmer News From the Web

05/31/12 Vols Jersey Countdown #92 Source: UTSports.com White, who died Dec. 26, 2004, at the age of 43, collected a school-record 32 sacks in his four years with the Vols to establish himself as the most prolific pass rusher in Tennessee history.
05/19/12 Mike Strange: Q&A with UT Vice Chancellor/Athletic... Source: CBS - Volunteer WVLT - Knoxville TN Mike Strange visited with University of Tennessee Vice chancellor/athletic director Dave Hart on a wide range of topics.
05/17/12 Dooley, Hart laud Fulmer Source: Oak Ridge Observer - Oak Ridge TN The most recent conversation was ironically normal.
05/16/12 Dooley, Hart laud Fulmer Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press - Chattanooga TN The most recent conversation was ironically normal.
05/15/12 Johnson, Fulmer and Detmer among latest voted into... Source: Athens Banner-Herald - Athens GA Jimmy Johnson was asked if he ever considered getting back into college coaching and responded by taking out his phone and scrolling through his pictures.

Background on Phillip Fulmer

Phillip Fulmer (born September 1, 1950) is a TV college football analyst and the former head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, who compiled a 152–52 record from 1992–2008 as head coach, but was fired during a 5–7 season in 2008. He is best known for coaching the Volunteers in the first ever BCS National Championship Game in 1998, defeating Florida State University.

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