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Friday, August 08
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Shorter carries confidence: Hawks return to field preparing for tough road opener
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Shorter head coach Phil Jones takes stock of his team as the Hawks stretch before their first practice of the season Thursday afternoon. Ryan Smith / Rome News-Tribune
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Humidity wasn’t the only thing in the air Thursday night.
Enthusiasm, optimism and a heavy hint of pent-up aggression were also a part of the atmosphere at Garden Lakes Park during the Shorter College football team’s first practice of the year.
“I think it was easy to see that all of us, and especially the seniors, were ready to get out here today and hit somebody,” said offensive tackle Brad Smith, one of 40...
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Johnson has power for Braves
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A lengthy rain delay at the start of Thursday’s game didn’t cool down Cody Johnson and the Braves.
Johnson hit a pair of homers, including a grand slam, an...
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Bulldogs camp at home
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Cedartown coach Mark Loudermilk will stay with the Bulldogs today through Sunday.
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CEDARTOWN — The Cedartown Bulldogs football team has run into a little problem already this season.
It’s nothing major and nothing Bulldogs coach Mark Loudermilk knew wasn’t coming — the problem was that the Bulldogs started school on the same day as practice.
“By starting school the same day as football practice,” said Loudermilk, the 2007 Rome News-Tribune Coach of the Year, “it...
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Weather wrecks scrimmage plans for prep softball teams
Trion softball fans will have to wait a few extra days to get their first look at the new-look Lady Bulldogs.
The Trion squad, which could have as many as six freshmen in the starting lineup, was scheduled to visit LaFayette on Thursday for a scrimmage game.
But the heavy band of thundershower...
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Politics, pollution, pomp: Everything about the Beijing Olympics is big
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Fireworks explode over Bird’s Nest stadium during a dress rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. The Associated Press
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BEIJING — All it takes is one step into this city’s brand-new, massive, futuristic airport to realize the world is about to witness the most grandiose Olympics ever staged, a $40 billion coming-out party for a nation desperate to establish itself as an economic and athletic superpower.
A seemingly-limitless army of smiling volunteers is on hand to greet and help visitors, part of a Herculean effort to transform the once-drab Chinese capital into a friendly, colorful tourist destinat...
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