Joel
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Joel Hollingsworth is a 1999 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law. He wears a despicable tie by day while functioning as General Counsel of a health care organization and frightening orange plaid pajamas by mornings, nights, and weekends as Editor-in-Chief of Rocky Top Talk. His work has been featured on and in numerous websites and print publications on topics ranging from vomit to tax and copyright law (he's cited as an "expert" in the footnotes, which his wife finds hilarious nearly to the point of incontinence). Oh, and he's written about the Tennessee Volunteers, too, first in 2005 at View from Rocky Top (trudging through The Season of Which We Do Not Speak), and then here at RTT beginning in 2006.
As a sports blogger, Joel has guest-posted on a variety of other notable sites such as Every Day Should Be Saturday and Burnt Orange Nation, exposure that has helped lead to even more surprising and bizarre notoriety, including interviews by NBC Sports, ESPN.com, and The Sports Tap radio program. He's also mostly to blame for both the 2006 and 2007 College Football Blogger Awards, for which he conned four of the biggest names in the niche to put forth a united effort to promote the entire college football blogosphere.
Joel lives in Jonesborough, Tennessee, adjacent to Jackson the Mule, who says hi.
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Commented Great chart, hooper on Really? When is the NCAA just going to let the kids play? on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 7:18 PM PDT
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Posted E.J. Abrams-Ward: RTT#7 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 2:00 PM PDT
Posted Austin Johnson: RTT#8 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 1:00 PM PDT
Posted Willie Bohannon: RTT#9 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 12:00 PM PDT
Commented All true on Aaron Douglas: RTT#12 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 11:21 AM PDT
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Posted Tauren Poole: RTT#10 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 11:00 AM PDT
Commented No other offers on Aaron Douglas: RTT#12 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 10:45 AM PDT
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Posted Prentiss Waggner: RTT#11 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 10:00 AM PDT
Posted Aaron Douglas: RTT#12 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 9:00 AM PDT
Commented on Talking points: your objection is duly noted and overruled edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 6:47 AM PDT
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Posted Talking points: your objection is duly noted and overruled edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 4:19 AM PDT
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Posted Your TiVo knows . . . on Rocky Top Talk - 08/21/08 3:00 AM PDT
Posted Ben Bartholomew: RTT#13 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/20/08 1:00 PM PDT
Posted Steven Fowlkes: RTT#14 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/20/08 12:00 PM PDT
Commented Enjoy! on Carson Anderson: RTT#17 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/20/08 11:51 AM PDT
Posted Herman Lathers: RTT#15 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/20/08 11:00 AM PDT
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Posted Carson Anderson: RTT#17 in 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/20/08 9:00 AM PDT
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Commented Hmm on SEC POWER POLL Ballot: Preseason on Garnet And Black Attack - 08/20/08 5:48 AM PDT
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Commented Oooh on Polls for People Who Are Tired of Polls: Hot Hot Hot on Rocky Top Talk - 08/20/08 5:41 AM PDT
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Voted for Georgia Southern @ Georgia - Aug. 30 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/20/08 5:40 AM PDT
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Commented Funny you mention that on Talking points: yeah, there's a puppy in the house edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/19/08 10:00 AM PDT
Commented Stated another way (again) on Ranking the SEC Coaches: the preseason SEC Power Poll on Rocky Top Talk - 08/19/08 9:58 AM PDT
Commented Credit only for the NC on Ranking the SEC Coaches: the preseason SEC Power Poll on Rocky Top Talk - 08/19/08 9:57 AM PDT
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Posted Ranking the SEC Coaches: the preseason SEC Power Poll on Rocky Top Talk - 08/19/08 4:00 AM PDT
Posted Enemy feed of the day: Northern Illinois Huskies on Rocky Top Talk - 08/19/08 3:30 AM PDT
Posted Your TiVo knows . . . on Rocky Top Talk - 08/19/08 3:00 AM PDT
Commented How are the games chosen? on Join the 2008 RTT College Pick 'Em Game on Rocky Top Talk - 08/18/08 6:54 AM PDT
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Commented Ooh on Crompton and the Clawfense show better in Saturday scrimmage on Rocky Top Talk - 08/18/08 5:53 AM PDT
Posted Talking points: yeah, there's a puppy in the house edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/18/08 4:31 AM PDT
Posted Join the 2008 RTT College Pick 'Em Game on Rocky Top Talk - 08/18/08 4:00 AM PDT
Posted Enemy feed of the day: Auburn Tigers on Rocky Top Talk - 08/18/08 3:30 AM PDT
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Posted Crompton and the Clawfense show better in Saturday scrimmage on Rocky Top Talk - 08/17/08 4:34 AM PDT
Posted Add to that the fact that Coach Fulmer always has played (at best) second fiddle in his own divis... on Rocky Top Talk - 08/16/08 7:28 PM PDT
Posted RTT preseason BlogPoll drafty draft draft ballot: now with 75% more mess! on Rocky Top Talk - 08/16/08 5:37 PM PDT
Commented I'm huge Low fan as well on War and Peace: The Continuing Story of Houston Nutt on Rocky Top Talk - 08/16/08 5:13 PM PDT
Commented on The ready, fire, aim method: RTT's BlogPoll balloting for 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/15/08 11:09 PM PDT
Posted VolQuest.com - Returns afford pleasant problem on Rocky Top Talk - 08/15/08 9:40 AM PDT
Posted Talking points: time is the ultimate alpha dog edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/15/08 4:16 AM PDT
Posted Scout.com: Underpaid and overpaid coaches on Rocky Top Talk - 08/15/08 3:30 AM PDT
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Commented For some reason . . . on Big Orange Roundtable: bucking the questions edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/15/08 3:07 AM PDT
Posted Your TiVo . . . wants to make up for yesterday on Rocky Top Talk - 08/15/08 3:00 AM PDT
Posted Big Orange Roundtable: bucking the questions edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/14/08 6:24 PM PDT
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Posted The ready, fire, aim method: RTT's BlogPoll balloting for 2008 on Rocky Top Talk - 08/14/08 4:51 AM PDT
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Posted Your TiVo has betrayed you on Rocky Top Talk - 08/14/08 3:00 AM PDT
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Posted Talking points: but you don't want to keep saying "but" edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/12/08 4:11 AM PDT
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Posted Talking points: if a coin had only one side, we'd be in good shape edition on Rocky Top Talk - 08/11/08 4:41 AM PDT
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Commented Yeah, well on RTT picks up a five-star recruit from Oklahoma on Rocky Top Talk - 08/10/08 3:10 PM PDT
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Commented If . . . on RTT picks up a five-star recruit from Oklahoma on Rocky Top Talk - 08/09/08 7:56 PM PDT
Commented I hadn't heard of them . . . on RTT picks up a five-star recruit from Oklahoma on Rocky Top Talk - 08/09/08 7:55 PM PDT
Posted RTT picks up a five-star recruit from Oklahoma on Rocky Top Talk - 08/09/08 5:58 PM PDT
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