Photo by Saul YoungHarrington goes preppy with a polo shirt and cargo pants.

Photo by Saul YoungShe’s a brick house in Kenzie cuffed short shorts and a BCBG bell-sleeve floral wrap top. Harrington completes the look with BCBG shoes.

Photo by Saul YoungTailored jeans and a textured tank are what Harrington wears on air at The Sports Animal radio station.

She finds a way to transition from sports replays to Knoxville’s need for a Nordstrom on The Sports Animal radio station.

Radio personality Heather Harrington, 23, determinedly hits Nordstrom’s Mecca of a shoe department when in other cities.

Hailing from Houston, where “big style” reigns, the former University of Tennessee volleyball player’s weakness is shoes — BCBG and Manolo Blanhnik labels can be found in her collection of more than 40 pairs.

Not a slave to labels, Harrington shops anywhere that suits her 6-foot-1-inch frame. She lets us into her closet:

What are you currently obsessing about having in your closet? Sunglasses, in every color and print; I just love them because you can put on a pair with no makeup and you still look great.

Name a purchase you charged that you wish you hadn’t? (Laughing) I don’t have buyer’s remorse too often.

What should every woman have her closet? A black dress and high heels.

If you could take only three things from your closet to a desert island, what would they be? A sarong that I got as a gift from Malaysia that can be worn as a skirt or a dress and two bathing suits.

Do you ever wear your pajamas on air? I used to but that didn’t always look so good if I had to meet with someone unexpectedly or if a tour or something was going to be happening at the radio station. I usually wear tailored jeans and some type of white top — a white fitted tee, a white button-down

What could happen in the world of fashion to change the world? It would take something like all the designers refusing to have their clothes made at child labor sweatshops or anywhere with inhumane conditions.

Have you ever been a fashion-don’t? Oh, yeah, when I was younger, in junior high school, I could never find pants long enough for me. So I was definitely wearing a lot of floods.

What does your dream closet look like? It is filled with shoes and is a huge walk-in closet.

What do women not need any more of in their closets? Pantyhose; just go get a spray-on tan and get rid of the pantyhose.

What is it about women’s fashion that you think most men don’t understand? Our obsession with shoes and bags. It’s not meant for them to understand, and they shouldn’t complain about a woman’s collection of shoes.

How often do you shop? And where? Probably three to four times a month. I’ll shop anywhere but especially when I go out of town I am on a mission for places to shop.

The last time you dressed up I wore a brown chiffon BCBG dress and snakeskin high heels to a wedding in D.C.

It’s been said that shopping is euphoria for women. What are your thoughts on this notion? Retail therapy works. When I shop alone, it’s about having “me” time.

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A police officer stopped Heather before she had a wreck. Unfortunately there was no officer there to stop Ryan Dunn back on the Sunday night in June of 2011 when he was killed driving drunk.

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Ryan Dunn and his friends moments before they died.

Flickr user Eric Lewis posted the image below with a caption that says the photo shows what’s left of Dunn’s car.

Billy Sunday told a story that illustrates this principle:

I feel like an old fellow in Tennessee who made his living by catching rattlesnakes. He caught one with fourteen rattles and put it in a box with a glass top. One day when he was sawing wood his little five-year old boy,Jim, took the lid off and the rattler wriggled out and struck him in the cheek. He ran to his father and said, “The rattler has bit me.” The father ran and chopped the rattler to pieces, and with his jackknife he cut a chunk from the boy’s cheek and then sucked and sucked at the wound to draw out the poison. -He looked at little Jim, watched the pupils of his eyes dilate and watched him swell to three times his normal size, watched his lips become parched and cracked, and eyes roll, and little Jim gasped and died.

The father took him in his arms, carried him over by the side of the rattler, got on his knees and said, “God, I would not give little Jim for all the rattlers that ever crawled over the Blue Ridge mountains.”

That is the question that must be answered by everyone no matter what their religious beliefs. Is the pleasure of drinking alcohol worth the life of one of your children?

Probably the most telling is the last statistic: 95% of alcoholics die from their disease and die approximately 26 years earlier than their normal life expectancy.