John Painter

Association Sports Information Director

John Painter, the author, is associate sports information director at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

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Roots strong for UT's Campbell 9 Mar, 2010
By: John Painter

For 20 years as UT’s sports turf manager, Bobby Campbell grew, watered, nurtured, clipped, edged, weeded and doctored every blade of that green grass on every living Big Orange playing and practice surface the Knoxville campus had to offer. Now he's calling it quits.

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