If you are like most college football fans, you take your favorite team’s upcoming schedule and go down the list.

You give out wins, losses and tossups and total them up for a best case-worse case scenario for your team. It’s a great way to pass the time before that first kickoff and the season starts to roll downhill.

BeyondTheBets.com is one of several on-line sites that provide projections and let you decide.

There has been a lot of chatter among Tennessee fans as to how many wins Coach Derek Dooley needs to save his job.

Certainly current Athletics Director Dave Hart has given no indication as to what that number is, or if he even has a number.

One thing for sure: Dave Hart is looking for improvement in all aspects of the program and winning games is the best defense Dooley has.

SEATTLE -- The Texas Rangers recalled catcher Luis Martinez Saturday from Class Triple A Round Rock and he was in uniform as the Rangers dropped a 7-0 decision to the Seattle Mariners.

Martinez, 27, was brought up to allow the Rangers to have an extra catcher available in case something happens to Yorvit Torrealba while Mike Napoli is out the next few games with a bruise near his right knee.

Principal Mel Brown named Jim Carter as the new baseball coach at Mt. Juliet High School Thursday, replacing Mark Purvis who resigned in mid-June.

Carter, son of former TSSAA Executive Director Ronnie Carter, has been a head baseball coach for the past 14 seasons -- most recently at Davidson Academy. He also coached at Hunters Lane and Jackson Christian -- taking all three programs to the state tournament a combined five times. His 2000 and 2008 teams were state runner-up, and he had third place finishes in 2003 and 2009.

Kiwanis 11-12's eliminated Tuesday
HARTSVILLE -- Lebanon’s Kiwanis Little League 11-12 all-stars were eliminated from district tournament play Tuesday night with a 20-4 loss to Smith County at the City Park.

One night earlier on Monday, the local team ousted Lafayette 12-8. The Lebanon squad fell into the losers’ bracket with a 16-2 drubbing at the hands of Gallatin on Saturday -- then waited an extra 24 hours to hit the field due to wet weather and lightning in Trousdale County.

Texas A&M and Missouri officially became new members of the Southeastern Conference on July 1.

Their real induction comes next week when they join 12 other teams, each represented by their head football coaches and three players at the annual SEC Football Media Days in Birmingham.

I was there the day then-SEC Commissioner Roy Kramer welcomed Arkansas and South Carolina to the conference in 1992.

I had known and covered Kramer during his days as Vanderbilt’s athletics director. But the day he wore a large plastic Razorback snout on his head, was indeed groundbreaking.

It was totally out of character for Kramer, who was always dignified in his role at Vanderbilt and as the SEC’s commissioner.