{"id":12794,"date":"2026-04-29T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/meet-knox-news-new-tennessee-baseball-writer-emmett-siegel-knoxville-news-sentinel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:46:09","slug":"meet-knox-news-new-tennessee-baseball-writer-emmett-siegel-knoxville-news-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/meet-knox-news-new-tennessee-baseball-writer-emmett-siegel-knoxville-news-sentinel\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Knox News' new Tennessee baseball writer Emmett Siegel – Knoxville News Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll be honest. I don\u2019t particularly like writing about myself. For a reason I can’t quite pin down, it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
The good news is I shouldn\u2019t have to do it much in this job, so let\u2019s get this one out of the way.
I\u2019m Emmett Siegel<\/a>, and I\u2019m very excited to be joining Knox News<\/a> for a newly created position to focus on Tennessee baseball.<\/a>
I know it\u2019s odd timing to be joining the baseball beat with only a few weeks left in the regular season, but I\u2019m ready to jump in headfirst as the Vols head down the stretch of SEC play<\/a> toward the postseason. And, as we all know, the college sports news cycle never ends.
A bit of background on myself: I\u2019m from the Washington, D.C. area, growing up in the Maryland suburbs and staying local for college at the University of Maryland. I didn\u2019t have to go far for my first job at The Washington Post, where I covered high school sports.
That provided my first professional opportunity to document the power of sports and how it can bring a community together. It can also change lives for stars like Nate Ament, who I profiled when he was in high school. Some of you may have heard of that guy before.
My foray into journalism was a bit of an accident. I wrote for my high school newspaper\u2019s not-at-all-robust sports section, but mostly because I had friends I could talk to during that period. As I enrolled in college unsure what I wanted to pursue professionally, I kept journalism in the back of my mind but no closer.
One day my sophomore year, I decided to walk a different route than usual between classes (I probably just had some time to kill). I ran into a friend from high school and he asked if I was still interested in sports writing. I said maybe, so he gave me the phone number of someone he knew was looking for students interested in writing about Maryland athletics. Why not just give it a try?
Four years later, sports journalism is my full-time job. Funny how things work out that way.
Journalism is how I ended up in Knoxville, which I previously had only ever experienced through a TV some 500 miles away, imagining what it might be like to experience the checkered spectacle of Neyland Stadium in person. Before I saw the city with my own eyes for the first time, I hadn\u2019t really grasped Knoxville as a place that existed beyond the Tennessee athletic facilities.
Since arriving here, though, I\u2019ve realized how robust this city truly is. It feels weirdly familiar for a place I\u2019ve lived for \u2013 let me count \u2013 five days.
Being part of this community excites me. The chance to tell stories about Tennessee athletics, which I know mean so much to so many here and everywhere, excites me too.
Let\u2019s do this.
Emmett Siegel covers Tennessee baseball for Knox News. Email: emmett.siegel@knoxnews.com<\/a>; X: @EmmettSiegel_<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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