Jeff Hart

The Buford flag football team captured the first annual Kickoff Classic at Buford High School on Saturday.

When Texas hosted a football recruiting weekend last summer, prospective players walked a burnt orange carpet flanked by nearly a dozen Lamborghinis with engines revving and growling and music blaring.

Alexey Miranchuk and Tyler Wolff each scored second-half goals as Atlanta United won 2-1 against New York Red Bulls Saturday night in front of 43,428 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Haynes King threw a go-ahead 4-yard scoring pass to Jamal Haynes early in the fourth quarter and Georgia Tech overcame two touchdown passes by Maalik Murphy to beat Duke 24-14 on Saturday night, handing the Blue Devils their first loss.

No. 5 Georgia bounced back from its first regular-season loss in almost four years — and got an added bonus after the game was over.

Gainesville's Reese Olson made his MLB postseason debut on Saturday in the Detroit Tigers' 7-0 loss to Cleveland.

Atlanta United returns to action Saturday when it hosts New York Red Bulls in the final home match of the regular season at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Bryant Appling, the master of adjustments, stuck again for Buford on Friday night. Although, by his own admission, it wasn’t much this time.

A half-dozen Northeast Georgia-area teams are ranked in the top 10 in their respective classifications heading into Week 8, the most since the preseason rankings came out in early August.

After a chaotic Week 7 due to Hurricane Helene, things are back to normal around the state in high school football. (You thought I was serious about that, didn’t you!)