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2B SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2020 THE TENNESSEAN TODAY AUTO RACING 1 p.m. Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing: Pro Lite Pro 2, WTVF-5 BOXING 6 p.m. PBC Fight Night: For- tuna vs. Lozada, Fox Sports 1 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7 a.m. Coach to Coach, 104.5-FM 9 a.m.

Sports Saturday, 104.5-FM 11 a.m. Appalachian Coastal Carolina, ESPN2 11 a.m. Arkansas ESPNU 11 a.m. Clemson-Florida WKRN-2 11 a.m. Florida-Vanderbilt, ESPN, 93.3-FM 11 a.m.

Georgia Southern- Army, CBSSN 11 a.m. Illinois-Nebraska, Fox Sports 1 11 a.m. Indiana-Ohio WZTV-17, 104.5-FM 11 a.m. LSU-Arkansas, SEC Net. 1:30 p.m.

MTSU-Troy, 102.5- FM 2:30 p.m. California-Oregon Fox Sports 1 2:30 p.m. Cincinnati-UCF, ESPN 2:30 p.m. UCLA-Oregon, ESPN2 2:30 p.m. Georgia Alabama, ESPNU 2:30 p.m.

Wisconsin-North- western, WKRN-2 2:30 p.m. San Diego Nevada, WTVF-5 3 p.m. Kentucky-Alabama, SEC 94.9-FM 3 p.m. Kansas WZTV-17 3 p.m. Virginia Tech-Pitts- burgh, ACC Net.

3 p.m. Abilene Christian- Virginia, Fox TN 6 p.m. San Jose CBSSN 6 p.m. Tennessee-Auburn, ESPN, 104.5-FM, 94.9-FM 6:30 p.m. Mississippi Georgia, SEC Net.

6:30 p.m. Missouri-South Carolina, SEC Net. Alt. 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma Oklahoma, WKRN-2, 102.5-FM 6:30 p.m.

Liberty-NC State, Fox TN 7 p.m. Arizona-Washington, WZTV-17 9:30 p.m. USC-Utah, ESPN 9:30 p.m. Washington Stanford, Fox Sports 1 10 p.m. Boise CBSSN FIGURE SKATING 3 p.m.

FIG: The Rostelecom Cup, WSMV-4 GOLF 4 a.m. EPGA: The Joburg Open, GOLF Noon PGA: The RSM Classic, GOLF 3 p.m. LPGA: The Pelican Championship, GOLF 4 a.m. (Sun.) EPGA: The Joburg Open, GOLF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 8 a.m. High School Sports Saturday, 104.5-FM HORSE RACING 10:30 a.m.

Day at the Races, Fox Sports 2 1 p.m. Day at the Races, Fox SE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 5:30 p.m. UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez, ESPN2 PRO FOOTBALL 10:30 a.m. Titans All Access, WUXP-30 SKIING 11 p.m.

FIS: Alpine Skiing World Cup, NBCSN SOCCER 8:55 a.m. Premier League: Brighton Hove Albion-Aston Villa, NBCSN 11:30 a.m. Premier League: Manchester City-Tottenham Hotspur, WSMV-4 SWIMMING 7 a.m. ISL: Final, CBSSN TENNIS 6 a.m. ATP World Tour Finals: Doubles Semifinal 1, TENNIS 8 a.m.

ATP World Tour Finals: Singles Semifinal 1, TENNIS 8 a.m. ATP World Tour Finals: Singles Semifinal 1, ESPNEWS Noon ATP World Tour Finals: Doubles Semifinal 2, TENNIS 2 p.m. ATP World Tour Finals: Singles Semifinal 2, TENNIS SUNDAY AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. MotoGP: The Por- tugal MotoGP Race, NBCSN 1:30 p.m. FIM: The Grande Premio de Portugal, WSMV-4 7 p.m.

Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series: The Turbo UTV, CBSSN COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 a.m. Big Orange Sunday, 104.5-FM 9 a.m. Jeremy Pruitt Show, WUXP-30 11 p.m. The Nation, 104.5-FM COLLEGE SOCCER 11 a.m. ACC Tournament: Pittsburgh vs.

Clemson, Cham- pionship, ESPNU COLLEGE SOCCER 1 p.m. SEC Tournament: Arkansas vs. Vanderbilt, Cham- pionship, SEC Net. FIGURE SKATING 3 p.m. FIG: The Rostelecom Cup, WSMV-4 GOLF 4 a.m.

EPGA: The Joburg Open, GOLF Noon PGA: The RSM Classic, GOLF 3 p.m. LPGA: The Pelican Championship, GOLF HORSE RACING 10:30 a.m. Dat at the Races, Fox Sports 1 1 p.m. Day at the Races, Fox SE 3 p.m. Day at the Races, Fox Sports 2 PRO BASEBALL 3:25 a.m.

(Mon.) KBO: Doo- san-NC, ESPN2 PRO FOOTBALL 7 a.m. NFL Insider, 104.5-FM Noon NFL: Titans-Ravens, WTVF-5, 104.5-FM Noon NFL: Falcons-Saints, WZTV-17 3:25 p.m. NFL: Packers- Colts, WZTV-17 3:25 p.m. NFL: Cowboys- Vikings, 94.9-FM 7:20 p.m. NFL: Chiefs-Raid- ers, WSMV-4, 104.5-FM RODEO 4 p.m.

PBR: Corpus Christi, WTVF-5 RUGBY 1:30 p.m. Pro14: Scarlets- Ulster, ESPNEWS SOCCER 10:25 a.m. Premier League: Arsenal-Leeds United, NBCSN 1 p.m. Serie AC Milan- Napoli, ESPN 1:10 p.m. Premier League: Leicester City-Liverpool, NBCSN 3 p.m.

MLS Western Confer- ence Playoff: San Jose-Sporting KC, First Round, Fox Sports 1 6:30 p.m. MLS Western Con- ference Playoff: Colorado at Minnesota United, First Round, ESPN 9 p.m. MLS Western Confer- ence Playoff: FC Dallas at Port- land, First Round, ESPN 9 p.m. Liga MX Playoff: Puebla at Monterrey, Reclassi- fication Match, Fox Sports 1 SWIMMING 11 a.m. ISL: Final, CBSSN TENNIS 9:30 a.m.

ATP World Tour Finals: Doubles Final, TENNIS Noon ATP World Tour Finals: Singles Final, ESPN2 ON THE AIR Farrell Owens, a key who helped bring the Nashville Sounds to town in the 1970s, died Friday after suf- fering a heart attack earlier this month. He was 76 Owens was an original owner and vice president of the Sounds who also served as the general manager. He remained heavily involved in baseball throughout his life and was serving on the advisory board for Music City Baseball, a group trying to bring a major league team to town. Owens grew up playing sandlot base- ball around town before becoming a standout at Cohn High where he made The Tennessean All-City Team as a senior out- in 1963. He went on to play at Lipscomb and was mem- ber of the team to qualify for the NAIA Regional Tourna- ment in 1966.

After graduation Owens managed and played in several local amateur leagues. In 1976 when Larry Schmittou, also a Cohn graduate, was putting together the Nashville Sounds he announced that Owens, the baseball coach at Pearl High at the time, was among 15 original shareholders. The group also included country music stars Jerry Reed and Conway Twitty. Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge Boys joined the ownership group the following year. Schmittou named Owens vice presi- dent and general manager when the Sounds started playing at newly-built Greer Stadium in 1978.

Owens also assisted Schmittou in bringing the Nashville South Stars mi- nor league hockey team to town. The South Stars played at Municipal Audito- rium. On Jan. 1, 1983, Owens stepped down as vice president and general manager of the Sounds to accept a position with Purity Dairies. He remained a part-own- er of the Sounds.

am very proud of the role I played in helping bring professional baseball back to Owens told The Ten- nessean on Dec. 21, 1982. will continue to be a part-owner and avid supporter of the Sounds. And I know they will con- tinue to provide outstanding whole- some entertainment for Middle Tennes- seans for many years to Owens remained involved in baseball after leaving the Sounds. In 1989 he created an amateur base- ball newspaper, which remained in print until 1997.

It then be- came an online publication. Owens was a member of the Nash- ville Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame and Lipscomb Athletics Hall of Fame. In 1997 he received the top honor from the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association, Owens served as president of the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Associa- tion in 1987-88 and was on the board of directors and executive com- mittee until his death. Final arrangements have not yet been made. First Sounds GM and VP Owens dies at 76 Mike Organ Nashville Tennessean USA TODAY NETWORK TENNESSEE Owens Hunting has been on an uptick in Tennessee since the COVID-19 pandem- ic hit last spring, which was long before the most popular season of the year got under way.

That season deer hunting with gun, muzzleloader and archery opens Saturday, and state wildlife ex- pect it to be one of the busiest in several years. weekend is traditionally the biggest opening day that we have in the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wildlife information specialist Barry Cross said. is more inclusive to everyone. You have to have a spe- cial type of you have to have a bow. If got old gun that he taught you hunt with then The season will remain open until Jan.

3. Muzzleloader and archery hunting season, which opened Nov. 7, closes Fri- day. A total of 37,152 sportsman licenses have been sold in Ten- nessee in 2020 compared to 33,384 in 2019, according to the TWRA. Also, 4,441 big game archery supple- mental licenses have been sold com- pared to 3,936 at the same point in 2019.

Those numbers are expected to con- tinue to increase as the upcoming sea- son gets under way. is a time of year when we see a lot of people getting back together; a lot of tradition with hunting around the Cross said. got Thanksgiving and Christ- mas coming up and we see a lot of peo- ple, whether already hunting or being by family members or that family has a tradition of hunting when they get together, go into the Deer hunting season began on Aug. 28 with a three-day archery-only sea- son on private lands. Since then there have been two state- wide archery seasons (Sept.

30 and Nov. and a young sportsman hunt (Oct. 1) along with the cur- rent muzzleloader and archery hunting season. The current harvest is 52,928. That is an increase of 3,641 deer from the same point last season, according to the TWRA.

Counties with the largest harvests: Montgomery Stewart Sumner Sullivan Fayette Wilson Cumberland Giles (988), Maury (951) and Hamilton (945). A total of 12,022 deer were harvested on the opening weekend of gun, muzzle- loader and archery season in 2019. biggest deer hunting season of the year opens Saturday Mike Organ Nashville Tennessean USA TODAY NETWORK TENNESSEE return to the Nashville Superspeedway in 2021 will not only feature a Cup series race, as previ- ously announced, but also series and Camping World Truck series races. The tripleheader is set for Day weekend with the Camping World Truck race on June 18, the race on June 19 and the NASCAR Cup series race on June 20. you like racing, the highest level and the best available will be at our place that said Erik Moses, president of Nashville Superspeedway.

It was announced on June 3 that for the time in 37 years a NASCAR Cup series race would take place in Nashville when Dover Motorsports said they were reopening Nashville Superspeedway, which had closed in 2011. Nashville Superspeedway, which is located in Wil- son County, hosted and truck series races from 2001-11. The last NASCAR Series race in Nashville was at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in 1984. The new agreement between NASCAR and Dover Motorsports at Nashville Superspeedway is for four years, and Moses said the hope all along was to have an and truck series race accompany the NASCAR Cup series race. think we always expected to have a full NASCAR weekend, but we exactly certain it would hap- pen; not done until Moses said.

you know you just hope and have your Having three races instead of one will be a greater boost for the economy, Moses said. expect a strong turnout in terms of RVs and campers because Nashville is such a great destina- Moses said. three races now we are hoping people will come in as much as a week ahead of time and they will stay out at the track. Some of them will make trips down into Nashville proper and we hope they will also spend some time in Lebanon and Wilson Nashville Superspeedway adds truck races Mike Organ Nashville Tennessean USA TODAY NETWORK TENNESSEE Trucks line up after a yellow flag during the Toyota Tundra 200 race at the Nashville Superspeedway on Aug. 9, 2008.

JOSH THE TENNESSEAN.