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Paper trail burns Towers

Towers has become the third high school football team in the county in less than a year to forfeit a game for the use of an ineligible player. A player who rushed for nearly 150 yards in the Titans’ 30-21 win over Central Macon on Aug. 27 was decla...

Tucker beats Marist in double OT thriller

Tucker NQuan Maggett (25) breaks a tackle attempt from Marist defender W. Curran (23). Photo by Travis Hudgons
The odds kept stacking against Tucker in the second half of its game against Marist on Friday. There were four personal foul and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties; the ejection of the Tigers’ starting fullback; a failed fourth-down conversion inche...

Tucker beats Marist in double OT thriller

The odds kept stacking against Tucker in the second half of its game against Marist on Friday. There were four personal foul and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties; the ejection of the Tigers’ starting fullback; a failed fourth-down conversion inche...

Lithonia players cleared of bullying charges

Three Lithonia High School football players were exonerated of bullying charges after a disciplinary hearing last week. The charges stemmed from hazing allegations against Lithonia football players while the team was at a camp at North Georgia Colleg...

Tucker starts quickly in win over Southwest

An interception on the second play of the game by Tucker defensive back Chris Sanders. Photo by Travis Hudgons
Tucker entered its season opener against Southwest DeKalb on Aug. 27 with a new offensive line and a group of running backs making their first starts. But the Tigers got big plays from several players offensively as they beat Southwest DeKalb 50-19 i...

Top 10 Region Football Showdowns

Tucker vs. Southwest DeKalb (Aug. 27, Hallford): The season opener for both teams has special meaning because 6-AAAA teams play a straight region schedule this season after expansion. Both teams should qualify for state, but the loser is immediately ...

2010 DeKalb County Football Team Preview

Arabia Mountain Rams Head coach: Chris Beal (2nd season) Region: 5-AAA 2009 Record: 2-5 Outlook: The Rams dive into region play for the first time with everyone back from last year’s inaugural team. Beal will have nearly 90 players on the varsity a...

Spreading the wealth: County coaches banking on success with wide-open offense

Dante Ferguson was a defensive coordinator at three different high schools before landing the head coach job at Stone Mountain last season. But his playing days in the late 1980s were spent at Vanderbilt University as a tight end in a spread offense ...

Stone Mountain wins football opener 19-6

  Quarterback Jhyree Harris ran for a touchdown and passed for another to help Stone Mountain beat Jackson Atlanta 19-6 on Aug. 20 in the high school football season opener for both teams. The game at Avondale Stadium was stopped  with 5 minutes to...

Allegations of hazing involving M.L. King, Lithonia football teams investigated

Several acts of hazing by Lithonia High School football players are alleged in a police report released by the North Georgia College and State University campus police. Incidents described in the report include whipping a player with belts in the sho...

Beat the heat: Football coaches take steps to keep their players cool

Most of the county’s football coaches will be focusing on two words during preseason football practice. No, its not offense and defense, or wins and losses. And not even the phrase “state championship.” With temperatures in the 90s and the heat...

Stakes grow for Arabia Mountain football in second season

From left, John Bryant, Dustin Ingram, head coach Chris Beal, Case Woodard and Mials Woodberry. Photo by Travis Hudgons
Arabia Mountain’s first two varsity football opponents each won a state playoff game last season. That caveat will not be lost on Rams’ players as they have a shot at a state playoff berth for the first time. DeKalb County’s newest school, in i...

Countdown to kickoff: Preseason football practice begins Aug. 1

Eight DeKalb County coaches will begin preseason football practice next week at new schools and one program may not have a coach in place by then. Miller Grove, whose principal was demoted last week, had not filled its football coaching vacancy by pr...

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