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Astroturf workers installed the first section of Ridgeland High School s new turf field on Wednesday morning. The project is slated to be completed by Aug. 14, two weeks prior to the Panthers first football game of the season. (Messenger photo/Scott Herpst) New turf means Christmas in August for Ridgeland
The calendar may have said Aug. 4, and the thermometer reading certainly wasn’t synonymous with wintertime, but Wednesday morning was almost like Dec. 25 for Ridgeland High School football players...
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Georgia Northwestern Vice President of Student Affairs, Stuart Phillips (front left), signs application paperwork to the National Junior College Athletic Association. Also on hand for the ceremony is Georgia Northwestern Director of Student Affairs, David McBurnett. On the back row (from left) is head volleyball coach, Tricia Goodwin, men s head basketball coach, David Stephenson, and women s head basketball coach, Jim Williams. GNTC to join Georgia junior college ranks
A commitment to student athletics has Georgia Northwestern joining the National Junior College Athletic Association this summer. In a signing ceremony held at the Rossville Athletic Complex on Jul...
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Junior competitions end summer camp sessions for youth golfers
The LaFayette Golf Course wrapped up a summer series of youth golf camps this week, instructed by head professional Eddie Jackson. The camps were held three days a week throughout the summer month...
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Chattanooga FC falls in NPSL title game
Chattanooga Football Club had a season to remember, but it ended with a 3-1 loss the club will surely want to forget. After a 2-0 semifinal victory over the Madison (Wisc.) 56ers on Thursday, mor...
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Chattanooga Football Club to play for national championship on Saturday
CFC defeats Madison (Wisc.) in NPSL semifinals
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The new artificial turf surface being installed at Ridgeland High School will use roughly 48,000 recycled plastic bottles, 25,000 recycled rubber tires and will save between a half and one million gallons of water each year. New turf has Ridgeland thinking 'green'
State-of-the-art artificial playing surface will save time, money, environment
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Chattanooga FC player Ryan Peck signs an autograph for a young fan following a match at Finley Stadium. (Photo by Jim Myers) Chattanooga FC players overwhelmed by fan support
Team to play in NPSL Final Four starting Thursday
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Rock Spring teenager Abigail Jacks will race in the 28th Annual AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship beginning next week in Tennessee. Abigail Jacks earns spot in Motocross National Championship
Rock Spring teen headed to race in Tennessee
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Chattanooga FC falls in D.C., 3-0
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Chattanooga FC traveled to the nation’s capital this past Saturday to face off against D.C. United’s reserve squad in an exhibition at famed RFK Stadium. D.C. United’s reserves, which include to...
Chattanooga FC still packing em' in
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Organizers of the Chattanooga Football Club (CFC) had some lofty attendance goals when the team was established last spring to begin play in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL). “We were hop...
Mark Geiger Memorial Soccer Tournament to be held Sept. 11
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The Mark Geiger Memorial Soccer Tournament will be held on Saturday, Sept. 11 at LaFayette (Ga.) High School beginning at 10 a.m. The co-ed, 11-on-11, non-single elimination tournament is for play...
History in the making
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GNTC hold first-ever women's basketball tryouts
GNTC Bobcats ink second ex-General
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Even when he was four years old, Heritage’s Treasvelle (Treas) Jackson knew what he was going to do. “After getting his first big hit in a T-ball game, everyone yelled at him to ‘run home’,” said...
Record crowd watches Chattanooga FC drub Rocket City
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A league-record 5,117 soccer fans poured into Finley Stadium on Saturday evening to watch their hometown Chattanooga Football Club take on Rocket City United out of Huntsville. Having already clinc...
Heat-forged
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Bobcats turn up the heat on basketball tryouts
Ian Stephens wins MMA pro debut
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Walker County’s Ian Stephens won his mixed martial arts pro debut on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla., earning a unanimous three-round decision over Ryan Quinn at Xtreme Fighting Championship 1...
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Snedeker is leading in Boston; Woods shoots 65 (AP)

Tiger Woods makes a birdie putt on the seventh hole during the second round at the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament at TPC Boston, in Norton, Mass., Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Brandt Snedeker is the leader at the Deutsche Bank Championship, a spot he didn't imagine when he saw that his tee times coincided with the expected arrival of rain and wind from Hurricane Earl.


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No. 9 Iowa rolls past Eastern Illinois 37-7 (AP)

Eastern Illinois running back Jimmy Potempa, left, is tackled by Iowa defensive tackle Christian Ballard during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Adam Robinson ran for 109 yards and three touchdowns in the first half and No. 9 Iowa breezed past Eastern Illinois 37-7


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Campbell disqualified for not registering (AP)
AP - Chad Campbell's playoff hopes have ended at the Deutsche Bank Championship. He was disqualified for a simple task that slipped his mind — he forgot to register for the tournament.
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