Sports

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

Week 8 is done and while there were a lot of teams on a bye week, that didn't take away from the slate of games we did have.

A 27-car crash that involved eight of NASCAR's 12 title contenders. A chaotic cleanup that infuriated competitors. And a surprise winner. Just a regular race at Talladega Superspeedway.

It was a week of upheaval in The Associated Press college football poll

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.

It’s most fitting that NASCAR this weekend races at Talladega Superspeedway, site of one of the first major disputes between drivers and the top stock car series in the United States