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Lithonia defeats Stephenson 12-8 for Trail to the Title championship

The Lithonia Bulldogs concluded an improbable run to the Trail to the Title middle school football championship with a 12-8 victory over defending champion Stephenson Jaguars. A big fourth-and-goal stop of Stephenson quarterback Xavier Shepard by the...

M.L. King, Stephenson face off in big regional matchup

The Region 6-AAAAA champion title will be on the line Oct. 26 when the Martin Luther King Jr. Lions play region rivals Stephenson Jaguars at Hallford Stadium. The game is a must-win for the Jaguars, who hope to stay in the race for the region title. ...

Dallas Rivers leads Tucker running backs in total yards and touchdowns

Dallas Rivers (25) takes a hard hit and still scores a touchdown. Photo by Travis Hudgons
The Tucker football program is known for producing great running backs and this year is no different. The Tigers have five players with more than 150 yards each on the season, including quarterback Jawann Williams. Running backs Dallas Rivers and Yus...

Former M.L. King Coach Mike Carson to open sports prep academy

Michael Carson, the former Martin Luther King High School football coach who lost his job amid allegations of sexting a parent, plans to open a prep school that will help athletes get scholarships. The school, Georgia Prep Sports Academy, will be a o...

Football: Stephenson, Tucker to clash in first regular season game

The No. 4-ranked Stephenson Jaguars, top image, (4-0) and No. 2-ranked Tucker Tigers (5-0) will face off in a much-anticipated region 6-AAAAA battle at Hallford Stadium at 7:30 p.m. Photos by Travis Hudgons
Two of DeKalb County’s top football program will face each other for the first time in a regular season game Oct. 12. The No. 4-ranked Stephenson Jaguars (4-0) and No. 2-ranked Tucker Tigers (5-0) will face off in a much-anticipated region 6-AAAAA ...

Softball: Dunwoody wins region, advances to state playoffs with five other DeKalb schools

Dunwoody’s Stacey Ward hits a single during the first game of the regional finals against Miller Grove. Photo by Carla Parker
The Dunwoody Lady Wildcats softball team is region champion after beating Miller Grove in two games in the Region 6 AAAAA softball tournament on Oct. 5. Dunwoody, in its fourth consecutive playoff appearance, defeated the Miller Grove Lady Wolverines...

McCrary passes for over 300 yards in win against Decatur

Cedar Grove quarterback Johnathon McCrary throws a touchdown pass against Decatur. Photo by Travis Hudgons
Cedar Grove Saints quarterback Johnathon McCrary put on a passing clinic in the Saints’ 42-21 win over the Decatur Bulldogs Sept. 29. McCrary passed for 365 yards and five touchdowns on 20 out of 25 pass attempts. He also had two interceptions. Ce...

DeKalb County to honor 2012 Olympians Sept. 20

DeKalb County will hold a special “Olympic Tribute & Celebration” honoring DeKalb’s two Olympic medalists, DeeDee Trotter and Angelo Taylor. The tribute is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, on the Square in Decatur, located at 101 Ea...

Sexting allegation sidelines coach

A DeKalb County high school football coach has been sidelined after being accused of sexting a parent. Head Coach Michael Carson, of Martin Luther King High School, was suspended Aug. 21 pending the outcome of an ethics investigation into the allegat...

Legendary Godfrey begins 30th season at SW DeKalb

Southwest DeKalb head coach Buck Godfrey, running drills in practice last week, has served as a role model for hundreds of players. Photo by Wade Marbaugh
by Wade Marbaugh   It is a milestone in various realms, such as a 30th birthday or 30th year on the job, which often foreshadows a wristwatch and retirement. Don’t talk retirement as DeKalb County’s winningest football coach, Buck Godfrey, begin...

Local sportscasters find niche in growing webcast trend

Tom Whitfield, left, and John Morgo, right are area pioneers in the online sportscasting business. Photo by Wade Marbaugh
by Wade Marbaugh   Once again footballs fill the air, a sure sign of the onset of autumn with its ecstatic play-by-play calls over the airwaves. But nowadays not all exclamations of “Touchdown!” emit from radio and television stations. Many are ...

DeKalb coaches schedule around new heat policy

The Georgia High School Association’s new heat-acclimatization policy, adopted in March, requires all football players to build up tolerance to high temperatures by working out in shorts and helmets for five days before donning full pads. Three-a-d...

Summer swim league brings communities together

Swimmers from across the area converged on Emory University’s Woodruff PE Center June 30 - July 1 for the DeKalb County Swim League Championship Meet. Spanning two days, the event was a chance for members of the area’s 22 swimming clubs to compet...

Locals back on U.S. Olympic track team

DeKalb County has produced numerous top track and field athletes over the years and two of them will be competing in the 2012 London Olympics. Dee Dee Trotter, a 2001 graduate of Cedar Grove, and Angelo Taylor, a Southwest DeKalb graduate, will conti...

Marketing an important part of recruiting process

Joshua Outlaw had more than 20 college football scholarship offers before verbally committing to the University of Florida in April. M.L. King teammate Jeremy Tyler, a linebacker, has yet to decide among nearly two dozen scholarship offers. Wide rece...

Basketball camp a long-standing tradition in DeKalb

Former Atlanta Hawk Mike Glenn held his 33rd annual basketball camp for hearing-challenged athletes, which drew 102 campers from schools for the deaf across the Southeast and as far away as Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Photo by Robert Naddra
For 33 years former NBA player Mike Glenn has been carrying on a tradition begun by his father. Glenn’s father established the sports programs at Georgia School for the Deaf when it was segregated. “I grew up around deaf kids and understand the c...

Lakeside claims county record 13th all-sports award

The DeKalb County High School All-Sports Award returns to Lakeside for the first time since 2008. Lakeside won nine DeKalb County All-Sports Awards from 1996 to 2004, but had only won the 2008 crown as the best all-around athletic program in DeKalb o...

Columbia’s McCrary enters Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame

Dr. Phil McCrary
by Chris Chilton DeKalb County Schools Athletic Specialist   Another DeKalb County coaching legend is now a member of the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame. Columbia head boys basketball coach Dr. Phil McCrary was one of five new members inducted in the l...

Adapting to success: Former custodian enjoys long career helping disabled athletes

Working as a 19-year old custodian at Peachcrest Elementary School, Mike Miller began a 28-year journey that changed his life and the lives of many students. In 1985, Miller was asked to help coach a group of disabled students who play sports from wh...

Historic day for Southwest DeKalb tennis

Riddick overcomes spinal surgery to earn scholarship Two years ago Jasmine Riddick was more concerned with learning how to walk again than what she might do after graduating from Southwest DeKalb High School. Spinal surgery in June 2010 corrected a s...

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