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The Future

By By Bruce Feldman

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Not even rain on a Monday dampens the spirits of the Tennessee Vols. As a summer shower steams up the July air in Knoxville, the players move their 7-on-7 workout into the air-conditioned Neyland-Thompson Sports Center. The rain pelts the roof of this artificially turfed airplane hangar, but nobody can hear it over the boom box at the far end of the field blaring "Cotton Eye Joe" and the shouts of teenage girls whose high school cheerleading camp has overtaken the complex. Right now the player ...

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