NASHVILLE PREDATORS

BY DAVID BOCLAIR

OWNERSHIP BILL HASLAM THE SPORTS SPHERE provides Bill Haslam with a degree of certainty that did not exist when he was in the political arena. In each game, there is a winner and there is a loser. It’s that simple. “If you win a political election by 15 points, that’s a landslide,” he said. “But 40-something percent of the people weren’t for you.” What his stints as mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., (2003-11) and then governor of Tennessee (2011-19) taught him, though, is that those who didn’t see things the way he did still have a voice. And it is important those voices be heard. In fact, among his current pursuits is the podcast You Might Be Right with another former Tennessee governor, Phil Bredesen, which emphasizes an open-mindedness that is noticeably absent from…

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