Tony Gonzalez
News Director at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)
News Director for @WPLN in Nashville, where I've run our #CuriousNashville project and overseen special projects. Covering Nashville since 2011.
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5 days ago |
wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez
The Barkley Marathon includes many traditions, including the blowing of a conch shell — in this instance, by Carl Laniak. Somewhere deep in the East Tennessee woods, there’s a race with no finish line — at least not one most people will ever reach. There’s no official website, no posted start time, and the course changes every year. Runners carry pages torn from books as proof they’ve completed each loop. And it all begins with the lighting of a cigarette.
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6 days ago |
wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez
Vanderbilt has plenty of options for divvying up revenue sharing under the House settlement with a two-time national baseball champ and both men’s and women’s basketball coming off NCAA Tournament berths. Combined with a record of more losing seasons than bowl berths seemingly would make for an easy decision to invest anywhere but football. Not the Commodores. “This is the SEC,” Vanderbilt athletic director Candice Storey Lee said Tuesday.
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1 week ago |
wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez
Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream challenge.
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1 week ago |
wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez
Deadly and damaging April storms across Tennessee have qualified for additional federal disaster relief. Multiple tornadoes killed 10 people across the state in the first week of April, and a strong tornado in McNairy County damaged more than 300 structures. Flooding also prompted voluntary evacuations and impacted wastewater treatment plants in multiple counties.
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1 week ago |
wpln.org | Tony Gonzalez
Nashville captain Roman Josi is expected at training camp in September after the Predators said Wednesday the defenseman was diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome or POTS late last season. “He has been undergoing treatment since that diagnosis and is progressing exceptionally well,” general manager Barry Trotz said in a statement.
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