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With sellout crowds, offbeat promotions and a team contending at the top of its league as it faces off in the first round of the playoffs Friday, the Athens Rock Lobsters have sparked an unlikely hockey boom in this city long defined by college football. ajc.com/news/2026/04/i…

JD Vance: Erika Kirk skips Turning Point event in Georgia after ‘threats’ bit.ly/4dIC7JT

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@georgeja48 Awesome to hear, George. Enjoy!

@FletcherPage I am sure Loran and I will have a usual Sunday conversation under the oak tree on the Veranda at the Club House. A tradition since I have known Loran in the late 70's. PS: My first Masters was 3 years after his, as a 14yr old in 1963.

Georgia Bulldogs legend Loran Smith watched Arnold Palmer win the 1960 Masters. Smith, 87, has returned every year since, still searching for stories to tell ajc.com/sports/2026/04…

Thomasville high schooler and UGA golf signee Mason Howell got his first taste of the Masters this week. A full-circle moment Friday was more evidence it won’t be his last at Augusta National. ajc.com/sports/2026/04…

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As a toddler, Mason Howell launched rocks in South Georgia with plastic golf clubs and begged his dad to take him to the range. Next week — before graduating high school — the UGA signee will tee off at the Masters. ajc.com/news/2026/03/g…

Two decades after he gave a "galvanizing" speech on the eve of UGA's 2005 SEC championship season, D.J. Shockley will return to Sanford Stadium to deliver another one. That's a good excuse to write about one of the most beloved players in Bulldogs history ajc.com/news/2026/03/d…

“I don’t think I ever ran into anybody who loved Georgia more.” Though Loran Smith officially retired earlier this year from UGA, he never really left. The 87-year-old remains same as always — chasing the next great Georgia Bulldogs story. ajc.com/news/2025/12/w…

Ahkil Crumpton found guilty of murder for the 2021 shooting of Oconee County RaceTrac clerk Elijah Wood. Jury deliberated for just 38 minutes. Crumpton, a former University of Georgia football player, is already serving a 30-year federal sentence. ajc.com/news/2025/12/e…

Charles Hosch made the 2.5-mile trek to Blood Mountain's summit on Nov. 11 to collect dirt from what he considered a sacred place. He spoke to two men near the top and was headed back down. After that, Hosch vanished. ajc.com/news/2025/12/n…

The delay caused by the Gainesville-Brunswick melee isn’t new for the GHSA playoffs. Fifty years ago, a hotly disputed final seconds of the 1975 Douglass-Lakeside semifinal spiraled into 10 days of rulings. Only, rather than punches, there was a clock. ajc.com/news/2025/12/g…

Elijah Wood, the 23-year-old RaceTrac gas station clerk killed in 2021, performed a “noble job” by covering the graveyard shift for a sick co-worker, prosecutors said Monday in opening statements at the murder trial of the man accused of gunning him down. ajc.com/news/2025/12/r…

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@FletcherPage Great article @FletcherPage !

If you ever stood in line for fried chicken or pork chops or steak and gravy, you know it isn’t just lunch. It’s Athens. Weaver D's is up for sale again — for real this time, Dexter says — and it feels like the end of something we’ll never see again. ajc.com/news/2025/11/a…

Georgia football’s game against Texas this weekend already set records well before kickoff. The Athens-Ben Epps Airport will handle the most incoming and outgoing weekend flights in its 100-plus-year history. ajc.com/news/2025/11/a…

This is the best story that will come out of Athens this weekend. @FletcherPage knocks it out of the park on Weaver D’s ajc.com/news/2025/11/a…

You should read every word of this ⁦@FletcherPage⁩ profile of Dexter Weaver. An Athens institution who has been “Automatic for the People” for decades. Weaver D's, famous for R.E.M. album title, leaves bigger stamp on Athens ajc.com/news/2025/11/a…

Since Sanford Stadium opened in 1929, it has been reshaped, expanded & modernized into one of college football’s premier venues. But one original feature has gone mostly untouched for nearly a century: a concrete culvert buried beneath the stadium. ajc.com/news/2025/09/o…