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Georgia produced five first-round MLB draft picks. Here’s where they’re headed.
7+ hour, 44+ min ago (450+ words) Georgia high schools produced five of the 37 first-round picks in the 2026 MLB draft on Saturday. That included three college players and two players drafted directly out of high school. Georgia Tech products Vahn Lackey and Drew Burress were both selected…...
Where Georgia teams stand in early national high school football rankings
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (423+ words) Georgia could repeat with another high school football national champion this year if preseason rankings are any indicator. The state is well-represented in the first round of rankings releases, including national polls from High School Football America, SBLive and the…...
Georgia drops FCS foe from loaded 2028 football schedule
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (323+ words) Georgia’s 2028 football schedule has an opening after the Bulldogs and FCS foe Florida A&M canceled a game planned for Sanford Stadium. The mutual decision between the schools, confirmed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday night, leaves the Sept. 9 date…...
Kirby Smart drops from top spot in ESPN’s ranking of college football coaches
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (461+ words) No active college football coach has as many national championships as Georgia’s Kirby Smart. Yet his two title runs in 2021 in 2022 are not enough to consider Smart the nation’s top head coach, according to ESPN rankings determined by a survey…...
Gunner Stockton’s poor 2025 finish has led to plenty of offseason questions
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (608+ words) Gunner Stockton probably likes that there’s little chatter about him ahead of the upcoming season. All this despite Stockton finishing seventh in Heisman Trophy voting last season. It comes a year after he picked up wins in games against Manning…...
He left Ole Miss for the Falcons, and now he’s challenging Jeff Ulbrich
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1033+ words) FLOWERY BRANCH — In the middle of February, Patrick Toney didn’t think he’d be here, standing on the edge of the Falcons’ practice facility, winding down after the final mandatory minicamp practice of his first summer with the team. But four…...
Cancer didn’t stop him from coaching football. He added baseball, too.
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1628+ words) ATHENS — David Perno hobbles from his golf cart to the bench at Clarke Central’s football field and sits to watch practice start. The head coach rebuilt his alma mater’s football program with the same fiery leadership that made him one…...
Georgia Tech athletics’ $175 million in revenue for 2026 fiscal year a record
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (291+ words) Georgia Tech athletics announced it set a record for revenue in 2025-26. The program released its fiscal year revenue report Wednesday, and it brought in $175 million for the 2026 fiscal year that covered July 1, 2025, through June 30. That broke the previous record of…...
This football hotbed leads Georgia’s 159 counties in prospects per capita
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (680+ words) Clinch County has won six football state championships this century, all in Class A, the Georgia High School Association’s classification for the smallest schools. Now, this little South Georgia county is No. 1 in an all-classification category — the most major college…...
Jahan Dotson wants to prove the Falcons — and himself — right
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (1305+ words) FLOWERY BRANCH — Jahan Dotson scrunches his face, racks his brain and reaches a conclusion: “Prove” isn’t the right word for what he wants to do with the Falcons. Dotson, a first-round pick in 2022, has experienced the rewarding highs of being…...