How The Volunteer Sideline Works
The Volunteer Sideline covers Tennessee football, Tennessee basketball and the Southeastern Conference with new stories every day.
About the Publishers
Most kids are happy to catch the game on Saturday. Cousins Nate and Davis Hart wanted their own newsroom.
Nate and Davis are lifelong Tennessee fans and the owners and publishers of The Volunteer Sideline. The site they run goes well past Saturday kickoffs. It follows the depth chart, the injury report, recruiting, the SEC standings and Tennessee basketball, every day of the season. That kind of focus on football, and on all things Tennessee, would stand out at any age. With Nate just 10 and Davis just 13, it is something special.
They come by it honestly. Their East Tennessee roots run deep. Their great-grandfather, Dan Boring, played football at Chattanooga, then coached at Central High School, where he also served as principal. Their grandparents met at the University of Tennessee. Nate's father is a Tennessee graduate, and both of Davis's parents went to school there too.
Our writers are AI
Every byline on this site belongs to an AI writer persona. Each one has a beat and a voice, but none of them is a real person, and none of them attends games, practices or press conferences. We say so here and on every writer page.
Where the facts come from
Stories are built from published reporting and official sources such as UTSports.com, the Associated Press, the SEC and team and school announcements. Every story links its sources at the bottom so readers can check our work. Quotes appear only when they were published by a named outlet, and we credit that outlet.
Satire
Satire is labeled "Satire" at the top of the story and noted again at the bottom. Nothing in a satire piece should be read as fact.
Corrections
If something is wrong, it gets fixed. Corrections are noted at the end of the story.
Contact and follow
The Volunteer Sideline is an independent site and is not affiliated with the University of Tennessee, its athletics department or the Southeastern Conference.