TENNESSEE District 5-A With the move from District 6, Arts & Sciences should be tough. Grace Academy, a state semifinalist a year ago, should be a strong team with senior guard Brandon Herman, an NCAA Division I recruit. Senior Dexter Peterson is the only returner from Tennessee Temple's Class A state-runner-up team.

Dewayne Watkins has every reason to downplay expectations for the Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Lady Warriors this basketball season. LFO, which finished 31-4 and Class AAA state runner-up last year, lost two current college players in Ashley McKenzie and state player of the year Kayla Weaver, plus head coach Wayne Weaver, who took an administration job at the school.

TRENTON, Ga. -- There's a different attitude in the gym at Dade County High School on this mid-November afternoon.

Three Chattanooga-area high school football teams remain alive in the postseason, and all three roll into the next round after easy wins Friday night.

CALHOUN, Ga. -- On a night when its usually potent offense was held in check, an often overlooked aspect of football carried the Calhoun Yellow Jackets into the GHSA Class AA quarterfinals.

NASCAR wants you to believe the Sprint Cup title isn’t a slam dunk for Jimmie Johnson as the series hits Homestead for the season finale. Mathematically, of course, that’s true. He could, as he did at Texas, get caught up in somebody else’s trouble and finish 40th or so.

CALHOUN, Ga. -- When Nash Nance decided to finish his high school football career at Calhoun, the senior quarterback understood he would be stepping into a totally different level of expectation.

When Mark Mariakis and his staff review video of Friday night's 17-14 Georgia Class AAA playoff loss to Flowery Branch, they will see a Ridgeland football team that executed its game plan to near perfection.

NASCAR faces an interesting situation with its Nationwide Series. Does it want the series to be the training ground for future Sprint Cup drivers, or do officials want the series to be more popular with fans and make more money?

TRION, Ga. -- If there were a face to put on the 2009 Trion High School football team, it would be Ryan Wilson's.

The Georgia High School Association released enrollment figures for its schools for the next four years Thursday, and the numbers likely will change the landscape of prep sports in northwest Georgia beginning next fall.

Mott Hyde and Jordan Poole have been playing baseball together since they were 10, so it was appropriate Wednesday that the Calhoun High School baseball stars secured their college futures during a joint ceremony at the school.

There is no truth to the rumor that Derrick Laney has a future in acting, despite the Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School senior's penchant for the dramatic.

DALTON, Ga. -- On a night when Dalton High School celebrated its rich football tradition, it was a progam with basically none that stole the show.

Well, the Danica Patrick experiment is about to come to fruition with word she is close to completing a Nationwide Series deal with JR Motorsports.

RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Martez Eastland doesn't mean to be rude, and the soft-spoken Ringgold High School football star would never want people to think he goes around angry all the time.

Year two of the region playoff round in Georgia is here, and though some confusion still exists with fans, the coaches involved believe it's the best way to settle a sub-divided region's playoff field.

TUNNEL HILL, Ga. -- Stryker Brown could sense a giant shift in momentum, so the Dalton senior quarterback went to work. Two plays later the Catamounts scored a touchdown that helped seal a 35-11 sub-region win on the road Friday night at Northwest Whitfield.

Talladega and Halloween. It’s such a perfect match that it makes you wonder why the two haven’t been paired before now.

If only it were this simple, not to mention dramatic, all the time.

Michelle Spangler was all smiles, the little kid in the Notre Dame High School soccer player out there for all to see. She had just joined a few teammates in using the mudpit that was the Camp Jordan soccer field as a slip-'n'-slide moments after the Lady Irish completed an 8-1 rout of visiting DeKalb County in the Region 4-A/AA playoffs.

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- As Dana Mull searched for answers, the look on the Gordon Lee High School softball coach's face said plenty.

NASCAR is different from every other professional sport in that it's both an individual and a team sport. A great driver won't be very good with a mediocre team, and vice versa.

You can tell it’s a slow news time in NASCAR when it makes headlines that Dale Earnhardt Jr. is frustrated. I mean, really, what’s he supposed to be late in a winless season as his three Hendrick Motorsports teammates duke it out for a title?

New Catoosa County school Heritage's softball rivalry with Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe played out yet again Thursday, this time in Columbus, where the upstart Generals used a strong start for a 4-2 victory in the Class AAA Elite Eight.

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- It was Black Friday for a quartet of northwest Georgia softball teams at the GHSA State Championships.

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Mike Trapani has been coaching too long not to notice a milestone when he sees one.

In the end, Martez Eastland lost the battle but won the war.

TUNNEL HILL, Ga. -- Football coaches often will say there comes a point in every season when a team must decide what it wants to become. It was a little over a month ago when that moment arrived for Northwest Whitfield.

TUNNEL HILL, Ga. -- Shane Ramsey knows freshmen aren't supposed to be this good. The Northwest Whitfield softball coach also knows his team wouldn't be playing today in Columbus as part of the GHSA Class AAAA Elite Eight without them.

Given all his young team had accomplished during this surprising softball season, Shane Ramsey should have known better.

It might not be the normal reaction for most 13-year-old girls, but when K.P. Ronda sees a ball rolling toward her, she kicks it.

RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Considering the conditions that greeted the two football teams on Don Patterson Field on Friday, the Ringgold Tigers had a big advantage coming in.

The Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe softball team used a time-proven method to earn another trip to Columbus, Ga.

OK, so the Chase is over, right? I mean, Jimmie Johnson already is past his worst Chase tracks, won at California and now has slam dunks ahead of him at Charlotte and at Martinsville.

DeVaughn Buchanan deals with a personality disorder every day during football season, and he gets therapy five days a week for it.

RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Some might say the Heritage Generals are too young to know any better. How better to explain Tuesday's GHSA Class AAA first-round softball playoff sweep of visiting White County?

CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. -- Gordon Lee softball coach Dana Mull has gone on record as saying she doesn't like Georgia's new playoff format for her sport.

Fans may not like it, but expect this Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship to be decided by pit strategy more than anything else. At least that is the opinion of Tony Stewart, who won last week after he took two tires to gain track position late when several other contenders took four.

It may be too late to recover much of the media coverage lost in the last two years, but NASCAR made a wise move this week by working with its many television partners to put a little consistency in race start times.

SUMMERVILLE, Ga. -- On a night when electricity was hard to find in Chattooga County, the Calhoun Yellow Jackets had a surplus of power.

SUMMERVILLE, Ga. -- Senorise Perry insists he's just one of the guys. The Chattooga High School senior's numbers suggest otherwise.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- If momentum means anything in high school softball, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe will be one dangerous team in the upcoming GHSA playoffs.

The Brainerd Panthers lit up the scoreboard from nearly every direction Saturday night to end five years of football frustration against Howard. The Panthers won 42-12 in the Heritage Bowl at Brainerd.

In an event that brought out the national news, only one football team on the field at Tommy Cash Stadium night was ready for prime time Friday.

Are Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin cheating their way to the top of the Sprint Cup standings?

With one swing of her softball bat, Kara Goins lifted a mountain of pressure off the Ridgeland Lady Panthers.

TRENTON, Ga. -- Bradley Warren's story is a familiar one: Football star returns home to lead his old program to new heights.

Monica Vickery has had her share of poor luck this year. When a softball pitcher has an earned run average of 0.64 but a losing record, things haven't been going her way.

Q: Discuss the level of parity that exists in Region 6-AAA.