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The Titans hope top NFL draft pick Cam Ward can lead them back to winning

Terry McCormick, AP

April 24, 2025

The Tennessee Titans are placing their bets, yet again, on picking a first-round quarterback. Third time’s the charm?

Filed Under: Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: NFL, NFL Draft, Tennessee Titans, Titans

Titans are off to their worst start since 2015 and looking for answers with a 1st-year coach

Teresa M. Walker, AP

October 29, 2024

Coach Brian Callahan said Monday he knows the Titans have no proof to show for how they are working. He says there’s no “sugar-coating” with Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk. Callahan says the NFL is a results business and the Titans are 1-6.

Filed Under: Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, football, NFL, Sports, Tennessee Titans, Titans

Tennessee is the latest state to mandate automatic defibrillators at high schools

Kimberlee Kruesi, AP

May 21, 2024

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Gov. Bill Lee in celebrating a newly enacted law requiring all Tennessee high schools to keep an automated external defibrillator available during classes, athletic practices and games. Lee signed the legislation earlier this year, but held a formal ceremony Tuesday marking the “Smart Heart Act” at Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn High School.

Filed Under: Education, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: AED, Bill Lee, cardiac arrest, CPR, defibrillator, football, NFL

Tennessee tourism deals could be kept secret from the public under advancing measure

Blaise Gainey

March 26, 2024

A measure backed by Gov. Bill Lee would allow the state’s Department of Tourist Development to make deals without making the public aware, and it has now passed the Senate.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, NFL, open government, tnleg, tnpol, tourism

Tennessee schools step up practice on lifesaving equipment like the kind used to save Damar Hamlin

Blake Farmer

January 17, 2023

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Tennessee is one of the few states that requires public schools to have an automated external defibrillator — better known as an AED. After one saved Damar Hamlin during an NFL game on national television, there’s new urgency to test them out.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: AED, cardiac arrest, NFL

Metro councilmembers get their first glimpse at terms of proposed Titans stadium

Ambriehl Crutchfield

October 26, 2022

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Metro councilmembers get their first look at the terms of a proposed new Titans stadium.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: development, East Bank, Metro Government, Nashville, NFL, Tennessee Titans

Cherrygate: Did the NFL follow through on a promise to donate 200 cherry blossom trees to Nashville?

Julia Ritchey

April 11, 2022

cherry blossom trees

The NFL removed some of Nashville’s beloved cherry blossom trees in 2019 to erect a stage for the NFL Draft. So what happened to a commitment to replant them?

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: cherry blossom festival, environment, nashville tree foundation, NFL, urban canopy, urban trees

Business Leaders Warn Against Economic Fallout From Anti-LGBT Legislation

Paige Pfleger

April 12, 2021

Tennessee could be off the table for future NFL, NCAA and FIFA competitions because of the state’s new transgender sports law.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Business, Joe Woolley, lgbt, NCAA, NFL, Tennessee Legislature, Tennessee Politics

Titans Deliver Jags First Home Win of the Season

Blake Farmer

November 26, 2012

The Titans handed the Jaguars just their second win of the season Sunday in a 24-19 loss.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: NFL, Titans

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