Head coach or no head coach, the show goes on for the Griffin High football team, which is in the middle of spring practice as the school tries to find the Bears next head coach.
BARNESVILLE — The Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) has announced its 2021 Softball All-Region 17 honors and Gordon State College’s Faith Hager has earned the GCAA Pitcher of the Year while head coach Ally Hattermann has been named GCAA Coach of the Year.
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man whose seriously ill son gained fame in New Orleans for his devotion to the Saints football team was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for drug trafficking and for fraudulently capitalizing on his son's illness with a phony charity.
BALTIMORE — Medina Spirit is set to run in the Preakness on Saturday to go for the second leg of the Triple Crown, as long as the Kentucky Derby winner passes a series of additional drug tests.
ATLANTA — Russell Westbrook broke Oscar Robertson's 47-year-old NBA record for triple-doubles and missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer as the Washington Wizards lost 125-124 to the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night.
McKinleigh Norwood, Elon Sheffield and Emma Beasley scored twice each as the Griffin Christian girls soccer team capped the greatest season in school history with a 7-0 win against the Georgia Christian School-Valdosta in the finals of the Georgia Association of Parochial and Private Schools…
Spalding High qualified athletes in eight events at Sectionals on Saturday at Kinnett Stadium in Columbus for the Class AAAA State Meet this Thursday through Saturday at Hugh Mills Stadium in Albany, while Griffin High qualified athletes in five events at Sectionals on Saturday at Starr’s Mi…
KENNESAW — Kennesaw State senior linebacker Bryson Armstrong was named to the 2020-21 Stats Perform FCS All-America Team as a member of the second team.
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Martin Truex Jr. got nervous in a hurry near the end of his dominating drive at Darlington Raceway.
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. took his late father's newly restored Chevy Nova out for a spin on Darlington Raceway's throwback weekend to pace the field before the Xfinity Series race Saturday.
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Any visitor to Rock Hill, South Carolina, soon learns that “Football City, USA” basks in the glory of the dozens of youth leaguers who have gone on to win college championships and land coveted NFL contracts.
Spalding High football standout Elijah White signed last week in front of family, friends, teammates, coaches and administrators to continue his career this fall at NAIA Allen University in Columbia, S.C.
ZEBULON — Pike County’s season came to an end with a 6-5 loss to rally-minded Long County in the second round of the Class AAA State Tournament on Thursday at Pilkenton Field.
Davis York, a University of Georgia student from Griffin, carries 25 discs in his backpack every time he plays a round of disc golf. He totes another 30 discs in the back of his car. While he only uses around 10 on any given round, York plays for nothing but fun.
Under sunny skies with the temperature at 66 degrees and an 11 mph wind, the Spalding High football team opened its first spring practice since 2019 on Friday afternoon.
ATLANTA — The Philadelphia Phillies got a boost with Jean Segura coming off the 10-day injured list and Bryce Harper returning from a sore left wrist.
The homestanding Pike County Pirates and visiting Long County Blue Tide finally finished Game 1 of their best-of-three series in the second round of the Class AAA State Tournament on Wednesday, some 30 hours after it started.
Both local public schools have track and field athletes who qualified last week for State Sectionals on Saturday.
BARNESVILLE — Gordon State closed out the 2021 baseball regular season in style as the Highlanders swept Georgia Highlands College — the top team in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) standings — by scores of 6-5 and 12-3 here Saturday afternoon. GSC finishes the regular seas…
SOCIAL CIRCLE — The 2021-2022 migratory bird season hunting dates and regulations were recently approved by the Board of Natural Resources, allowing hunters to begin making their plans for duck, dove and goose hunting, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resour…
My first bass boat was a 1974 16-foot Arrowglass with a 70-horsepower Evinrude motor on it. It sat on a single-axle trailer and I pulled it for the first three years with my Cutlass Supreme Convertible before buying my first van in 1977.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Thursday allowing student athletes at Georgia colleges, universities and technical colleges to receive compensation for the use of their name, image and likeness.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is forming a behavioral health program seeking solutions to mental and behavioral issues for current and former athletes and their families.
ZEBULON — Lightning forced the home plate umpire in Game 1 of Pike County’s second-round series in the Class AAA State Tournament against Long County to order the teams off the field and to suspend play in the top of the second inning Tuesday at Pilkenton Field.
SWAINSBORO — Gordon State left nothing to doubt in earning an outright Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season championship as the Highlanders defeated East Georgia State College 9-1 and 13-0 Saturday afternoon in Swainsboro
ATLANTA — Georgia Tech football’s first African-American student-athletes are recognized as part of the new “Blood, Sweat and Tears” exhibit at Atlanta’s College Football Hall of Fame.
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Willie Mays is turning 90, and no mistaking that number. It strikes with the clarity of a line drive. Mays played in a sport measured by milestones — 3,000 hits, 500 homers, signposts he passed and then some — and now here’s one more.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR's next generation race car is finally here after two years of hype and hope that it will revolutionize the stock car series.
Minor league baseball draws 103,483 for 47 games in return
Both the Rock Springs tennis teams recently qualified for the GAPPS state tournament. Individual qualifiers included: Josiah Brown and Phoebe Davis finished third in singles, Peyton Davis finished fifth in singles, and Abbey Deal finished sixth in singles while Dylan Zellner and Landon Cormi…
HAMPTON — Atlanta Motor Speedway is opening its grandstands to full capacity for the July 10-11 Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart NASCAR weekend.
DJ Daniel became the latest Griffinite to sign an NFL contract when he inked as an undrafted free agent on Saturday with the Jacksonville Jaguars for $660,000 following this year’s NFL Draft.
ATLANTA — Carmelo Anthony looked like he was all done just a couple of seasons ago.
The Spalding High baseball team shook off a slow start this season to make the Class AAAA state playoffs this year for the first time since 2018.
Rock Springs Christian Academy Varsity Track Team had a strong performance during the GAPPS State Track and Field Meet held last month.
With a successful in-person draft in Cleveland behind it, the NFL inexorably moves on.
PHOENIX — Amy Bockerstette is set to become the first person with Down syndrome to compete in a national collegiate athletic championship.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Baseball’s Hall of Fame has accepted Roberto Alomar’s resignation from the board of directors, chairman Jane Forbes Clark announced Monday.
FLOWERY BRANCH — The Atlanta Falcons have picked up receiver Calvin Ridley’s fifth-year option, meaning he will make $11.1 million in 2022 and be in line for a long-term deal.
HAIFA, Israel — Israeli soccer's first transgender soccer referee took the field Monday for the first time since coming out publicly as a woman last week.
Bobby Unser, a beloved three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and part of the only pair of brothers to win “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” has died. He was 87.
ATLANTA – Monday, the Atlanta Hawks announced plans to increase attendance for postseason play to 7,625 fans, approximately 45 percent of State Farm Arena’s full capacity.
LOS ANGELES — Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for California governor, said she opposes transgender girls competing in girls' sports at school.
One quarterback. Then another. And yet another.
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From staff reports
NEW YORK — Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar has been fired as a consultant by Major League Baseball and placed on the league's ineligible list after an investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct.
ATLANTA — The Falcons have added depth at quarterback by signing free agent A.J. McCarron to a one-year deal.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The bourbon is flowing again, flowery hats and humans are on the scene and 19 horses are ready to run the most chaotic race of their lives. After being disrupted by a pandemic, the Kentucky Derby is back with many of its traditions intact.
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons decided not to pick their quarterback of the future, going for more immediate help by selecting Florida tight end Kyle Pitts at No. 4 in the NFL draft on Thursday night.