Friday Game Night

Prep athletes around the state returned to campus on Monday, but the media was not allowed to cover the historic return.

Gainesville football coach Heath Webb tweeted Monday morning, "Back flipped outta bed this morning! LET’S GO!!!!"

High school athletes returned to campus for the first time since March on Monday.

Georgia High School Association Executive Director Robin Hines has confidence the member schools will follow the COVID-19 guidelines as student-athletes return to campus next week.

In my nearly 33 years of covering sports around the state and country -- harkening all the way back to my Red & Black days in Athens -- I finally encountered a first this past week. And it’s not something I thought I would ever experience...

Questions continue to pop up as student-athletes are allowed to return to conditioning with restrictions on campus next week. The biggest question: what happens when an athlete or coach tests positive for COVID-19?

Players, coaches, parents, fans, and certainly lonely sports writers have been chomping at the bit to get back to doing what they do best: play, coach, watch and cover sports on a daily basis...

The Hall County School District announced on Tuesday that it will allow student-athletes to return for conditioning/workouts beginning on June 8.

NFL owners and universities around the country could be pulling out the calculator to figure out how many fans would be allowed in the stadium. This, of course, if they are even allowed back to watch a game in person.

Like the stretch run at the end of a long cross country race, state and northeast Georgia area school systems can see the finish line, or in this case, perhaps the starting line to hopefully the beginning preparations for the 2020-21 season...