Sam Venable

• Sam Venable: Cup in one hand, goblet in the other Published 05/25/2012 at 4 a.m.

  Here is the ultimate win-win: Scientists have concluded that two different liquids, both of which I frequently sip, have positive benefits.

• Sam Venable: Whole lot of weeding goin' on Published 05/24/2012 at 4 a.m.

  GATLINBURG —Talk about spring cleaning!

• Sam Venable: No stopping her will to succeed Published 05/22/2012 at 4 a.m.

  HARRIMAN — A message for stressed-out, unappreciated and underpaid teachers at the end of another school year:

• Sam Venable: This saga is one among 3.4 million Published 05/19/2012 at 11 p.m.

  You'd have to have ice water in your veins — or be the most granite-hearted lender in the history of finance — not to feel sorry for Mary Cate Jones.

• Sam Venable: One more tale of extra-long odds Published 05/18/2012 at 4 a.m.

  This story is a wee bit musty — it's from 2002, for Pete's sake — but I simply must tell it.

• Sam Venable: Confessions of a sure-nuff goober Published 05/17/2012 at 4 a.m.

  Oh, the shame!

• Sam Venable: It takes a lifetime to grow up Published 05/15/2012 at 4 a.m.

  Surely there's not an adult who isn't ashamed of something he or she said or did as a teenager.

• Sam Venable: We like the quiet type of money Published 05/08/2012 at 4 a.m.

  There's a big monetary battle going on in Congress these days.

• Sam Venable: Our sexually frustrated legislators Published 05/06/2012 at 4 a.m.

  It is far too polite, not to mention naive, to say members of the Tennessee General Assembly have their heads in the sand when it comes to sexual activity among teenagers.

• Sam Venable: So much is riding on the punctuation Published 05/04/2012 at 4 a.m.

  This isn't original with me, but in light of the recent unveiling of the Tennessee Civil War trail marker near the birthplace of Admiral David Farragut, it bears repeating:

• Sam Venable: Tinkering with gear may be even better than the hunt Published 10/29/2011 at 8:21 p.m.

  Among literary treasures from legendary Milwaukee writer Gordon MacQuarrie is "Nothing to Do for Three Weeks," first published by Field & Stream in 1956, shortly before the author's death.

• Decades haven't tempered Jack Wade's excitement for catching fish Published 08/27/2011 at 5:42 p.m.

  Norris Lake, spring of 1960:

• Sam Venable: A whale of a tale you can sink your teeth into Published 07/10/2011 at midnight

  If you can beat Ed Carter's fish story, consider yourself a master angler - or a talented teller of tales, as the case may be.

• Sam Venable: Big-bream addict in search of a fix Published 06/11/2011 at 9:41 p.m.

  It is a wise bream fisherman who carries a long-handled landing net.

• Sam Venable: Littering while trout fishing is inexcusable Published 05/28/2011 at 10:04 p.m.

  After a recent trout-fishing trip into the Cherokee National Forest, I have two important announcements to make:

• Watts Bar crappie conundrum a whale of a discovery Published 05/22/2011 at midnight

  This is huge news. Stop the presses. Then alert the National Academy of Sciences, the American Fisheries Society and the World Fisheries Council.

• Long walk down memory lane forgettable Published 04/30/2011 at 5:43 p.m.

  Alabama author Tom Kelly, rightly known as the poet laureate of turkey hunting, ascribes to the flat-earth theory.

• Fireball's memory alive on Chesapeake Published 12/12/2010 at midnight

  A 1920s-era wooden canvasback decoy, memorial to Bill Farrar of Jefferson County, floats into the sunset on the Chesapeake Bay.

• Self-taught artist recognized for best-in-show Published 11/06/2010 at 10 p.m.

  MORRISTOWN - William "Bo" Bradford had life pretty much planned out. He was 18 and an accomplished musician, skilled with guitar, fiddle and banjo. Surely this would be the vocation road he would take.

• Volunteers dig in to sea turtle watching Published 07/25/2010 at midnight

  OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. - Jim and Deb Boyce have three children, three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren - and unknown thousands of "grandturtles."

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