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sports Diaranson 7 october 2020

Mays’ saga brings new chapter to Tennessee-Georgia rivalry

(AP)- Right tackle Cade days after the Sugar Bowl to
Mays and No. 14 Ten- play with Cooper Mays, now
nessee are about to add a freshman and fellow offen-
another juicy chapter to sive lineman.
a Southeastern Confer- First, the NCAA approved
ence football soap opera. his waiver. The SEC fol-
The Knoxville native will lowed Sept. 30.
start for the Volunteers The Vols have Mays at right
(2-0) on Saturday against tackle right now as Pruitt and
third-ranked Georgia af- his coaches look for the best
ter making his last start fit after COVID-19 tests and
for the Bulldogs on New quarantines affected practices
Year’s Day to kick off this this fall.
year. He left Georgia so he Tennessee center Brandon
could return home to play Kennedy knows the chal-
with his younger brother lenge of transferring inside
for the program his father the SEC after leaving Ala-
once was a team captain. bama as a graduate transfer.
Kennedy said they watched
Georgia coach Kirby Smart film together, plus Mays
said Monday he didn’t have a was helped by having been
sense that Mays was unhappy in a similar offense. “Things
during the two seasons he weren’t too different,” Ken-
spent with the Bulldogs. nedy said. “I was here for
“Cade did a tremendous job him with anything he need-
for us,” Smart said. “I have An attorney who helped conversations,” Pruitt said. ing against Cade; Cade’s used ed. With him coming from
a lot of respect for Case as a Mays win a waiver appeal What the 6-foot-6, to going against them. So, an SEC school to another, he
player and as a person. All I from the NCAA to play im- 320-pound Mays thinks they’ll be real familiar with knew what it was like.”
can say about him is he’s no mediately told the Knoxville about the Tennessee-Geor- each other.” Originally, Mays
longer with us. I look for- newspaper in August it was a gia rivalry and his part is not was headed to Tennessee all From the Bulldogs’ perspec-
ward to the matchup. He’s is “toxic environment” at Geor- known. Tennessee has not along. tive, scouting Mays this week
a really good football player gia. made Mays available this fall, He committed in July 2015 will be much easier having
and one of the toughest play- “I know coaches in the SEC and Mays only made his sea- only to decommit Nov. 7, faced him in practice the past
ers I’ve been around. I look will do anything they can to son debut with the Vols last 2017, five days before the two years. “It’s going to be a
forward to the matchup.” get their guys eligible,” Smart weekend in a win over Mis- Vols fired coach Butch Jones be great competition,” Geor-
said Monday when asked souri. setting off a search that cost gia defensive lineman Malik
Mays announced his deci- about that comment. “ That’s Pruitt said he knows Mays is then-athletic director John Herring said Georgia of-
sion to transfer to Tennessee their decision.” really happy he gets to play. Currie his job before replace- fensive lineman Ben Cleve-
in January, after his parents, ment Phillip Fulmer hired land said understands Mays
Kevin and Melinda Mays, Tennessee coach Jeremy “He went against most of Pruitt. Mays signed with was doing what was best for
sued the University of Geor- Pruitt said he had no idea these guys every single day,” Georgia, which reached the himself and his family. And it
gia in December for an in- what Mays and his attorney Pruitt said of Mays’ former national championship game won’t be the first time Cleve-
cident two years ago where referred to when asked about teammates at Georgia. “When that season. land has played against a for-
the lineman’s father lost part how the lineman described you’re a competitor on both mer teammate. “There’s no
of his little finger after it was what he was dealing with at sides of the ball, it won’t be Mays started 18 of 25 games hard feelings or anything,”
caught in a chair at a recruits’ Georgia. no different for the kids from at Georgia. He announced Cleveland said. “At the end of
dinner at Sanford Stadium. “I was not involved in those Georgia. They’re used to go- his decision to transfer eight the day, it’s just a game.”

Kaepernick's company publishing essays on policing, prisons

(AP) - Colin Kaepernick’s publishing com- form. “He delivered a comprehensive body of 2016 to protest racism and police brutality. Kae-
pany is putting out a collection of 30 essays work to amplify a national conversation.” pernick hasn’t played in the NFL since that sea-
over the next four weeks about abolition, po- In 2013, Kaepernick led the 49ers to the Super son and settled his collusion grievance with the
licing and prisions. Bowl, where they lost to the Baltimore Ravens. league.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback He began to kneel during the national anthem in
envisioned and curated this collection fol-
lowing the deaths of George Floyd and Bre-
onna Taylor.

The project is titled: “Abolition For the People:
The Movement For A Future Without Policing &
Prisons.” In his introduction, Kaepernick writes
the killings of Floyd and Taylor “forced our nation
to grapple with not only the devastation of police
terrorism, but also the institutions that constitute,
enhance, and expand the carceral state.”
Some of the pieces are written by political prison-
ers and family members of those who faced police
violence and incarceration. Other essays are by
organizers, movement leaders and scholars.

“Colin gathered respected leaders on abolition to
build and support his stance on a society without
police,” said Jermaine Hall, director of the Me-
dium editorial group, an online publishing plat-