VOL. 41 | NO. 25 | Friday, June 23, 2017
Players, families find competition, vacation fun at Ripken complex
PIGEON FORGE – Combine the baseball at The Ripken Experience with the bucolic backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains and the vacation wonderland of Pigeon Forge, and what do you have?
PIGEON FORGE – Melissa Rubel spies former major league baseball player Bill Ripken through the large plate-glass window and sheepishly cracks the door to the ground floor of the massive two-level clubhouse at The Ripken Experience Pigeon Forge.
DAVE LINK: UT SPORTS
Three years after starting his Tennessee career, Christian Coleman has reached the pinnacle of collegiate sprinting and is ready for his next challenge.
DAVID CLIMER: OUT OF LEFT FIELD
Time and again during the recent Stanley Cup Final, people asked the rhetorical question: Is this the greatest moment in Nashville sports history?
NEWSMAKERS
Gary Eastes has announced his retirement as head of Knoxville’s risk management office.
BEHIND THE WHEEL
Acura’s top-selling car, the compact TLX, has been restyled for 2018 and is now even more of a bargain as an entry-level luxury sedan.
BRIEFS
Stealth Mark has opened a new corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant in Oak Ridge, moving to East Tennessee from Centerville, Minnesota.
FAMILY TRAVEL
I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it actually was five years ago.
BUSINESS BOOK REVIEW
It’s always the little things. A chocolate on the pillow or slippers beneath a turned-down bed. Stickers for a customer’s kids. A lagniappe in the box to make a baker’s dozen: all things to ensure a speedy return of buyer or client.
GUERRILLA MARKETING
Many marketing professionals have found themselves at odds with their CEO, be it over competing priorities or different versions of success. The same often holds true for marketing agencies and their clients’ leadership teams.
CAREER CORNER
Interviewing is hard work. If you’re looking for something new, you know that finding a job is a job.