Matt Lampert![]() Recent Articles by Matt LampertAlberto Contador won the Tour de France for a second time Sunday, and Lance Armstrong capped his return to the race with an impressive third-place finish. Yovani Gallardo and Tommy Hanson dueled nearly to a draw on the mound, but the Brewers shut out the Braves 4-0 on Saturday. Chipper Jones drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and the Atlanta Braves prevailed in the matchup of bullpens in a 5-3 victory over the New York Mets on Thursday night. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees defeated the Gwinnett Braves 6-5 on Thursday night in Moosic, Pa. courtesy of a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia called President Barack Obama's decision to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay ``nuts'' Thursday and said it would risk the lives of civilians while giving terrorists new freedoms. Two people were hospitalized after a head-on collision on Thursday in Cornelia. Two 14-year-olds have been arrested in a double shooting in which a man died and a teenager was wounded in Gwinnett County. Police are searching for another suspect. Tributes continued to pour in Monday following the death of retired longtime Gainesville banker and community leader James Mathis, Sr., as plans were announced for his funeral on Wednesday. All-Star Brad Hawpe hit a game-ending RBI double and the Colorado Rockies rallied to beat the Atlanta Braves 8-7 on Sunday. The Charlotte Knights defeated the Gwinnett Braves 7-2 on Sunday afternoon in Fort Mill, SC. The G-Braves fall to 48-43 while the Knights improve to 41-48 on the season. One person was killed and two others had to be rescued when a boat ran into the jetties on Jekyll Creek on Sunday. Georgia writer Paul Hemphill, who chronicled the blue-collar South with his memoir ``Leaving Birmingham'' and taught writing at several Georgia colleges and universities including Gainesville's Brenau University, died at the age of 73. A storefront preacher has been sentenced to life in prison for molesting young boys in Athens. A Sugar Hill man died Saturday in a three-vehicle wreck on McEver Road near South Hall Drive. A Gainesville man was killed in a motorcycle accident Saturday near Augusta. Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50. The roadwork project was scheduled to conclude by the end of the year, but now the Georgia Department of Transportation says it’s planning to wrap up work by Labor Day. John W. Jacobs, Jr. was honored at the 35th presentation of the Southeastern Regional Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Awards Saturday night in Atlanta. The Gwinnett Braves defeated the Louisville Bats 4‐3 on a walk-off Saturday night at Gwinnett Stadium. The GBraves improve to 42‐35 while the Bats drop to 40-35 on the season. Tim Wakefield pitched six scoreless innings to win a duel with Javier Vazquez, and the Boston Red Sox blanked the punchless Atlanta Braves 1-0 Saturday. Nick Green homered just inside the right-field foul pole on the first pitch of the bottom of the ninth to give the Boston Red Sox a 6-5 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday. Previous |1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | Next |
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