NEWPORT—After helping lead the team to its best season in over two decades, Cocke County High School football coach Caleb Slover is on the move.
Slover was named football coach at Morristown East High School on Tuesday morning. He met with his players in a brief team meeting at 8:20 a.m. to tell them the news and was to be introduced later in the morning to his new team at Morristown East.
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