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Several key football games across the region, including region battles starting for more than half the area's teams in Week 6. Friday Game Night checked in with coaches around northeast Georgia to find out how many ingredients are needed to get a win Friday night.

Flowery Branch coach Ben Hall and Riverside Military Academy coach Nick Garrett will be the guests on this week's chopBLOCK PlayBook high school football show live from chopBLOCK Food & Spirits on the square in Gainesville.

One team is looking to continue its ascent to the top of one of the toughest classifications in the state. The other is looking to try and continue its ascent back to prominence. But no matter which team is doing what when, none of the outside noise seems to matter when Gainesville and Flowery Branch meet...

Georgia Tech's basketball team was banned from postseason play for the upcoming season and slapped with four years of probation for major recruiting violations committed by a former assistant coach and an ex-friend of head coach Josh Pastner...

On this week's AccessSports Weekly, the crew takes a look back at Week 5 and the games that lived up to the hype.

Max Blair, Shane Clanton and Darrell Lanigan all scored World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series victories over the weekend.

Josh Donaldson had a career-high three doubles while driving in four runs, Dansby Swanson had a career-high four hits while driving in two, and the NL East champion Braves cruised to a 10-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night...

The Braves shut down Ronald Acuña Jr. for the remainder of the regular season Wednesday after the All-Star outfielder left their series opener against the Royals with tightness in his left hip...

Alexandru Mitrita had a hat trick to lead New York City FC to a 4-1 victory over Atlanta United on Wednesday night...

A brace from Jack Newhouse in the second half was the difference as the University of North Georgia men's soccer team snapped a four-match losing skid with a 4-2 win over Southern Wesleyan Wednesday night...