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Today on Rocky Top: Dave Hart, Olympics, Football Practice, Injury

By Caleb Calhoun

Sep 5, 2015; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fans flies the United States flag and the Volunteer flag prior to the game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 5, 2015; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fans flies the United States flag and the Volunteer flag prior to the game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dave Hart retiring, Vols in the Olympics, a football injury and a practice report headlined the Tennessee news on Rocky Top for Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.

Happy Friday everybody! You can go into this weekend knowing that the start of Tennessee football season is less than two weeks. That of course has everybody excited on Rocky Top, but there’s now some huge news to talk about leading up to that.

The biggest story of the day in Knoxville was also a huge Dave Hart announcement, which we’ll cover in our morning roundup of news today. Also, the Olympics is still continuing, although it’s drawing to a close.

And in addition to already having one gold medalist, another former Vol is fighting for another. Fortunately, nobody in Knoxville has to worry about being embarrassed by the U.S. swimmers.

Finally, there’s still a bit of football news to get to. On Thursday, however, it wasn’t good news. We’ll take a look at that as well.

But let’s start with the big story of the morning.

Dave Hart announces retirement at Vols AD – UTSports

"Tennessee Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Dave Hart, who is entering his sixth year at the helm of the Volunteer Athletics program, announced Thursday that he will retire from the position of Director of Athletics, effective June 30, 2017.In accepting Hart’s decision to retire, UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said, “Dave’s greatest accomplishment is making UT a student-athlete-focused department."

Vols OT Chance Hall to miss four to six weeks – ESPN.com

"Tennessee offensive tackle Chance Hall has had arthroscopic knee surgery and is expected to miss four to six weeks.Volunteers coach Butch Jones announced Hall’s injury and gave the potential timetable for his return Thursday."

Butch Jones not happy with Vols’ Thursday practice – Ryan Callahan of 247Sports

"Tennessee didn’t practice Wednesday to allow players to focus on the start of fall-semester classes, and coach Butch Jones was eager to see how his players would respond Thursday in their return to the field.He was happy with their effort, but not with their execution."

Vols in Rio updates – UTSports

"Basketball:A 25-8 outburst in the third quarter helped the U.S. Women’s Olympic team break open a four-point game at the half and defeat France (4-3), 86-67, Thursday night at Barra Carioca Arena 1 to earn a spot in Saturday’s gold medal game.With its 48th-straight win in Olympic competition, the USA (7-0) improved to 65-3 all-time at the Games.…Track & Field:Current Vol Christian Coleman ran the second leg for the men’s 4x100m relay team which won the first heat in 37.65.…Tianna Bartoletta (formerly Tianna Madison) ran the first leg for the women’s 4x100m relay team. Bartoletta staked the USA to a lead after one leg, but the baton was dropped in the second exchange as Allyson Felix was bumped trying to hand off to English Gardner."

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