Organize Entries in Admin Panel I'm trying to sort the entries. Is there a way to do this without using the filters given? Can this be done manually?
Are you wanting to drag entries up and down to sort them? As far as I'm aware the only way to order manually would be to use a Structure and not a Channel. 

Alternatively if you just want to manually order them for use in a for loop (such as showing news items), you could add an entries field somewhere (in a global, a news page, a homepage, or somewhere else convenient). Then you can reference that list for your entries output. That would let you manually order them.