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Tucker one win away from second state football championship

Tucker football coach Franklin Stephens appreciates the irony. A fumble last season in the final minutes of a Class AAAA semifinal kept Tucker out of the championship game. This year the ball bounced Tucker’s way and a fumble by Northside Warner Ro...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

BOYS BASKETBALL   Miller Grove: The three-time defending Class AAAA state champions opened the season with an 86-51 win over Redan on Nov. 29. Tony Parker led the Wolverines with 26 points and 14 rebounds; Brandon Morris had 13 points and eight rebo...

Tucker’s winning formula modeled after Camden County

Jordan Landry (21) rushed for 137 yards and two touchdowns for the Tigers. Photo by David Sibley
Franklin Stephens was part of a football program that went 63-5 and won a state championship in his five seasons as an assistant at Camden County. Using Camden coach Jeff Herron’s winning formula as a blueprint, Stephens has crafted his own model f...

Life lessons on the run rewarding for Decatur teacher

Kira Wilsterman, third from right, a teacher at Oakwood Elementary in Decatur, has been coaching with the Girls on the Run program longer than any GOTR volunteer in the nation. Photo by Robert Naddra
An accomplished runner, Kira Wilsterman was on the cross country teams at Decatur High School and Evansville University in Indiana. After taking a break for a few years Wilsterman got back into running and has competed in several marathons (26.2 mile...

Girls’ basketball preview: Teams benefit from abundance of returning starters

Last year appeared to be the season that Chamblee, 1-9 in state tournament games, would change its hard luck story in the postseason. The Bulldogs were ranked No. 1 for three weeks and recorded their second undefeated regular season in school history...

M.L. King offense feeds off last-second heroics

Cornell Boyd hauls in a touchdown pass on the final play of regulation to send M.L. King into overtime against Brookwood. Photo by Travis Hudgons
  An 82-yard kickoff return with 16 seconds remaining to beat Stephenson. A 31-yard pass play with no time left to send the game into overtime in an eventual win over Brookwood. Those two plays suddenly typify the season for an M.L. King football te...

Five basketball players sign during early period

Southwest DeKalb’s Jordan Price, seated in center, is joined by family members and coach Dwayne McKinney as the senior prepares to sign a scholarship to Auburn University. Photo by Robert Naddra
Five basketball players from DeKalb County signed scholarships during the first week of the NCAA early signing period, which began Nov. 9. Two players from Columbia, which has won two straight Class AAA state championships and four in the past six se...

Boys basketball preview: Depth serves Columbia, Miller Grove well

Columbia and Miller Grove have more in common than state playoffs streaks. Miller Grove has won three straight Class AAAA state titles while Columbia has won two in a row in AAA, and four of the past six. Both teams have accomplished the feats in sim...

Two DeKalb County police officers arrested

Two DeKalb County Police officers were arrested Nov. 15 and charged with battery and violation of the oath of office, a felony, police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. Officers Arthur Parker and Blake Norwood, both with the department for three ye...

DeKalb High School Sports Highlights

Stephenson’s Demarcus Sweat can’t catch up to a pass as a Lowndes defender trails behind. Photo by Travis Hudgons
FOOTBALL: State playoffs, first round   AAAAA   M.L. King 30, Coffee 22: Blake Tibbs returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown, his second in as many weeks, and Jonquel Dawson passed for 283 yards and three touchdowns for the Lions (9-2). The Li...