The whole Go Vols Extra was originally a pay site, however, it blew up and eventually became an online component of the KNS website.

In my opinion, this is simply more hucksterism, trying to turn a dollar on the Big Orange athletic programs or in other words, the News-Sentinel can't make it work under the existing subscription/advertising model and so they want to make a buck on the back of student athletes at UT. I won't be suscribing and I don't subscribe to the daily rag anyway.

Such a model is predicated on substantive content and indepth reporting which the News Sentinel has proven it is not capable of providing, picking and chosing what it will report and what it will not.

Why is the KNS ignoring a serious issue with a local bank which is well ventilated in Nashville, but not discussed in Knoxville?

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for anything they are selling, particularly information which is readily available on other more reliable outlets for free.

In my opinion, the credibility and reliability of the KNS was shot several years ago and most recently their "PReditorial" regarding the Midway Mess cemented their lack of journalistic credibility, reliability, and objectivity.

$10/month for inane recruiting updates? Not me.

Maybe the subscription site will provide accurate and up-to-date information.

Over a week after the vol's basketball loss to USC, the free govolsxtra site still has the game posted as a "Win" on the schedule, and there's no result posted at all on the Belmont game from last thursday.

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Fortunately, accurate information about both of those games can be found easily (and freely) on the web in about a million other places.