Saturday July 5th, 2025 4:31PM

Jeff Hart

Sports Reporter
Jeff Hart
Star Freeman among four Braves to test positive for virus
Atlanta Braves four-time All-Star Freddie Freeman, premier reliever Will Smith and two teammates have tested positive for the coronavirus, a jarring hit to the NL East champions less than three weeks before the start of the pandemic-delayed season...
1:15PM ( 5 years ago )
NCAA puts TAMU football on probation
The NCAA has put Texas A&M’s football program on probation and coach Jimbo Fisher has been given a six-month show-cause order...
8:02AM ( 5 years ago )
Displaced Georgia youth tennis academy searches for permanent home
For the past 10 years, husband and wife tennis duo Michael and Debbie Beck of the Beck Tennis Academy have taught lessons intended to develop young athletes interested in improving their competitive tennis at any level...
7:56AM ( 5 years ago )
Hamels feeling good as Braves open training
For baseball's short season, Cole Hamels says short starts will work just fine. The Atlanta Braves' new veteran left-hander just wants to make sure he posts quality innings, no matter how few they may be...
9:35PM ( 5 years ago )
MLB cancels 1st All-Star Game since 1945
Dodger Stadium’s 40-year wait to host the All-Star Game is going to last even longer. The game scheduled for July 14 was canceled Friday because of the coronavirus pandemic...
3:59PM ( 5 years ago )
PGA to let Champ play under new COVID policy
Cameron Champ was added to the field in the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit under a modified PGA Tour policy that allows players who test positive for the coronavirus to be eligible if they had no symptoms and get two negative test results at least 24 hours apart...
12:00PM ( 5 years ago )
Hudson Justus takes 6th in Future Masters tourney
Not even playing up a division can slow down Hudson Justus. The 8-year-old Gainesville golfer recently finished sixth in the 10-and-under division of the Future Masters tournament played at the Par 70 Dothan Country Club course...
2:42PM ( 5 years ago )
Baseball's back: MLB sets 60-game sked, opens July 23 or 24
Major League Baseball issued a 60-game schedule Tuesday night that will start July 23 or 24 in empty ballparks as the sport tries to push ahead amid the coronavirus following months of acrimony...
10:13PM ( 5 years ago )
GHSA approves beginning of shot clock era in hoops
For the past couple of seasons, it has been nothing more than a whisper campaign. But after Tuesday, spearheaded by a large advocacy group of high school basketball coaches over social media, the Georgia High School Association turned the whispers into full-blown cries of joy approving the use of 30-second shot clocks in future games...
6:55PM ( 5 years ago )
Football: Passing drills are back as practices expand
It was already hot and muggy at 8 a.m. as the first wave of White County football players descended upon the practice field at White County High School Monday morning. But no one -- not coaches, players, trainers, distant onlookers -- seemed to care, especially when the most welcome sight of all was spotted...
8:50AM ( 5 years ago )