Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning will be named the new head coach at Oregon as soon as Monday, according to a person familiar with the situation. While a contract has not been signed, there...

The Georgia High School Association’s executive committee voted 62-0 on Wednesday to require that athletes compete based on gender assigned at birth, effectively banning transgender athletes from...

Coach of the national champion Bulldogs weighs in on an issue that has received plenty of attention lately thanks to Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher.

Gretchen Kaney considers herself a lifelong Braves fan, literally.

Here's the list of offensive, defensive and coach of the year winners in each classification.

Ron Gartrell, whose 243 football victories rank second all-time in DeKalb County Schools history, has retired after 33 seasons as a head coach. He told his coaches and players on a Zoom call Monday...

“I’m still hopeful for a normal fall,” GHSA executive director Robin Hines told the “Georgia Prep Sports: From a Distance” video podcast Monday.

Ted Turner brought the Braves national with the TBS Superstation 50 years ago, in 1973. Fifty years later, no longer a TBS regular, the Braves have a huge following nationally.

A list of of the best Georgia high school football players during the 2020 season, as rated by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The list includes the best players in each of Georgia's 8 GHSA classes.

Tech's highly coveted transfer will start the season opener against Louisville.

The Westlake girls basketball team, which has won four consecutive state titles in Georgia, added a national championship to its collection Saturday.

McEachern principal Regina Montgomery joined the “Georgia Prep Sports: From a Distance” video podcast to discuss the importance of sports as the school maintains a sustainable system for virtual...

Beyond contributing significant playing time at key roles, Georgia Tech’s freshmen football players had a pretty good fall in the classroom also. The members of the class – first-year students who...

Five former Georgia high school players were first-round NFL Draft picks last week and 25 went overall, both exceeding state averages, but the most remarkable story or origin came out of Gwinnett...

McEachern’s boys basketball team, ranked No. 1 by MaxPreps and BlueStar Media, has accepted an invitation to a tournament that could make it Georgia’s first national champion in 40 years.

Alabama offensive line coach Brent Key, a Georgia Tech grad, is expected to join coach Geoff Collins’ staff, according to two people familiar with the situation. Key has been at Alabama for the past...

The Georgia High School Association will reopen sports activities June 8 after executive director Robin Hines got the thumbs up Thursday afternoon from his board of trustees in a 50-minute meeting...

Wearing his “ATL” baseball cap and a white pullover with “404” on the chest, Georgia Tech coach Geoff Collins stood behind a lectern Wednesday morning in the Edge Center museum lobby to give remarks...

• All-classification player of the year: Jadon Haselwood, Cedar Grove

After overseeing the losingest season in the history of Georgia basketball, all indications are that Tom Crean and the Bulldogs will part ways after the season concludes, according to multiple people...

Josh Stepp, one of coach Shawn Elliott’s original hires in 2017, was promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Georgia State.

After experiencing the crowd support offered to his team in Georgia Tech’s win over Duke on Saturday, interim coach Brent Key has asked for more.

Dalton running back Jahmyr Gibbs received the Touchdown Club of Atlanta’s Mr. Georgia Football Award at the group’s annual awards banquet Thursday night at the College Football Hall of Fame.

Adding the former four-star recruit at quarterback jump-started the program in Brent Key’s first full season as coach.

Editor's note: At a time when sports are shut down, we take a look (in no particular order) at some of the bizarre moments from Georgia sports history.

The freshman quarterback’s eye-opening debut at Florida State last Saturday began as more a cynical look at the cruel tease of youth.

Georgia State held media day on August 1, 2019.

When he entered the coaching profession as an intern with the Dallas Cowboys, former Georgia Tech running back Tashard Choice said he told himself he would eventually return to his alma mater.

Sugiura: Singleton did exactly what Tech fans hoped he would. He decided he was best off right where he was.

Georgia High School Association executive director Robin Hines lifted restrictions on locker rooms, showers and group size for summer sports conditioning Wednesday after his weekly meeting with his...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that drastically changed the institute’s education format mid-semester, Georgia Tech athletes set an athletic department record for GPA. Tech’s 405 athletes...

Four games into his fourth season, coach Geoff Collins’ inability to lift Georgia Tech into a competitive realm has cost him not only what he often referred to as his dream job, but also likely the...

Marietta scored on four of its first 10 offensive plays, including its first two of the game, and routed Eastside Catholic of Sammamish, Wash., 53-14 Friday in the GEICO State Champions Bowl Series...

College football’s brand names came in pursuit of Dalton High running back Jahmyr Gibbs. Alabama and Ohio State made scholarship offers, as did LSU, Michigan, Florida, USC and Texas.

The Georgia High School Association is easing restrictions on summer conditioning starting Monday by allowing sports teams to use balls and sport-specific equipment and by increasing to 50 from 25...

Ninety-six points were scored in the NCAA Division II championship game Saturday. Two points that weren't scored made the difference.

Hank Aaron and Chipper Jones.

This is the 2020-21 high school basketball All-State boys team, by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The words of Nelson Mandela are inscribed on a water sculpture outside the Center of Civil Rights and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta. "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to...

He won UGA’s first NCAA outdoor 800-meter championship.

The play that reignited the debate occurred in the final minute of the Sandy Creek-Cedar Grove game at Center Parc Stadium.

Mike Matthews of Parkview High School is a consensus top-25 national prospect, the nation’s No. 1 WR prospect according to a pair of media outlets and the highest-rated recruit in Parkview history....

It’s been a “Hot Guy Summer” for Tennessee safety Kevin Byard.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has chosen a charity created in memory of Hank Aaron to receive a donation from the newspaper’s first NFT versions of popular news pages about the Braves’ 2021 World...

It spoke to a team principle, coach Geoff Collins said, that “we leave everywhere we go better than we found it.”

Georgia Tech’s spring football game will be televised on the ACC Network, one of nine games that the first-year channel will broadcast. ESPN made the announcement Thursday.

After holding his tongue for three-plus years, former Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson wants the world to know – his offensive linemen didn’t average 260 pounds.

» All-classification player of the year: Arik Gilbert, Marietta» Rosters: All-State team | All-Metro team» Classes: AAAAAAA | AAAAAA | AAAAA | AAAA | AAA | AA | A-Private | A-Public

MIAMI - Braves pitching prospect Bryce Elder was promoted to Triple-A Gwinnett. Elder, 22, was a fifth-round pick in the 2020 draft. The University of Texas product will be on his third level this...

Kirby Smart is very good at winning games, but that’s only part of his job. Georgia’s football coach also has a moral and ethical responsibility to protect the welfare of his players and the commun...

This feels like the right hire. It mightn’t feel that way five years from now, but we’re not living in 2027. We’re living at a time when Georgia Tech is trying to correct the biggest wrong in...

Take a good coat and a lot of money if you plan to travel to Indianapolis for the Georgia-Alabama national championship game.

In three short years, Terrance Dixon has seen a substantial change in his status on the Georgia State football team.

Here are the AJC picks for the best Georgia high school football players in 2023, including the all-state teams by class, offensive player of the year, defensive player of the year, and the Georgia...

The Corky Kell Classic on Monday announced its 11-game, four-day schedule that will help kick off the 2021 Georgia high school football season.

One day ahead of a specially called board meeting, Georgia High School Association president Glenn White said Sunday he expects clear direction for fall sports by week’s end and strongly opposes...

Georgia State will learn its bowl destination Sunday, and any place the Panthers are sent is OK with coach Shawn Elliott.

Former Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett hid behind a brick wall when approached by police prior to his arrest on charges of public intoxication in Dallas, Texas, in January, according to the...

The Georgia High School Association’s push to attract a new generation of officials got a huge boost Wednesday thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation, a branch of the...

Georgia State offensive lineman Gabe Mobley had an incredible junior season in 2017, winning the Cure Bowl and finishing his first semester of law school.

Here’s a sampling of what’s being said on social media as members of the Georgia Tech football program reach out to the city of Atlanta:

In a recent team meeting, Georgia Tech defensive tackle Chris Martin was one of a handful of players singled out by coach Geoff Collins for the effort scores he had achieved in preseason practice....

Here is the all-region team 4-AAAAA, as voted by the league’s coaches:

Brock Vandagriff’, Prince Avenue Christian quarterback — the AJC’s Georgia’s high school football player of the year — became the state’s season leader in passing yards (4,169) and passing touchdowns...

Georgia Tech offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner left a team that won back-to-back national championships for a team that finished 5-7 last season and is starting a rebuild, although his new job is...

Tech and Florida State are scheduled to meet in Dublin next season.

In her 11th game for the Dream, Maite Cazorla was subbed in against the Connecticut Sun – the No. 2 team in the WNBA –as the Dream trailed by four points at State Farm Arena. She got the inbound...

ATHENS – Scott Stricklin wanders into the tiny baseball park at North Oconee High no differently than any one of the other 50 parents there to watch their kids play on a Monday night. With his...

There were plenty of reasons for Georgia State running back Trae Barnett to celebrate on Saturday. Not only did the senior set a pair of school records, he helped the Panthers defeat Troy 52-33 at...

If Tech hires Brent Key as permanent coach, he’s unlikely to win as big as Dabo Swinney. Then again, it was unlikely that Key would make the Jackets competitive after taking over for Geoff Collins. J...

Another of Georgia’s most successful high school football coaches is leaving for a college job.

The Georgia High School Association has fined Valdosta $5,000, banned the football team from the 2021 playoffs and declared an unspecified number of players ineligible.

In a career in which he has earned superlatives and honors by the fistful, Calvin Johnson may well receive the highest Saturday night.

This wasn’t how Freddie Freeman envisioned his spring playing out, much less the rest of his career.