Friday Game Night

The Tigers were stunned in the second round of the playoffs in 2017 after three straight seasons of making the quarterfinals or better in Class A Public. Region 8-A figures to be just as tough in 2018 and will once again offer Commerce plenty of challenges and competition as the Tigers look to make a 22nd consecutive playoff appearance...

Georgia High School Association Executive Director Robin Hines at the July updated the GHSA Executive Committee at the July 10 Board of Trustees meeting that all the state championship football games scheduled at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2018 will be held at the stadium...

The War Eagles missed out on the playoffs in a very competitive Region 7-4A in 2017. It won't get any easier as Flowery Branch moves down and Denmark, a new school in Forsyth County, moves into the region...

Tommy Jones is no stranger to success having guided both Lumpkin County and Dacula to winning seasons and the playoffs. So when he stepped down as coach of the Falcons to take over the newly-created Cherokee Bluff program, he said the allure of building something from the ground up was one of the motivating factors...

The Wolves had another solid season winning Region 8-5A and advancing to the Class 5A semifinals. But they ran into juggernaut, and eventual state champion Rome, and saw their streak of 10 consecutive trips to the state finals halted in a tough 45-7 loss on the road...

The Leopards are coming off back-to-back playoff appearances for the first time since 1996-97 but for the third time in four seasons they will be under the guidance of a new head coach in former West Hall defensive coordinator Jay Reid...

It was a quiet transition, at least publicly, but one that apparently capped a wild three-month period for new Banks County Athletic Director Mike Cleveland...

East Hall Principal Jeff Cooper announced that he has promoted assistant coach Scott Patrick to the vacant football head coaching position for the Vikings...

Heath Webb is not about to make any pronouncements about the state of Gainesville football from his first spring in charge of the Red Elephants.

What does it take to start a program? Former Lumpkin County and Dacula coach Tommy Jones, with the help of a couple good friends, begins the process alongside his staff this week as the Cherokee Bluff Bears take to the field for the first time.