Atlanta’s most accomplished athlete you’ve never heard of
One of Atlanta’s world-class athletes doesn’t pitch a baseball or carry a football. Dylan Tunnell excels in a sport, Ultimate Frisbee, more associated with the college quad than packed stadiums.
Premier League preseason returns to Atlanta as the city looks to become USA’s soccer capital
On a rainy summer Sunday afternoon downtown, Mercedes-Benz Stadium hosted the final two games of the 2025 Premier League Summer Season, a tune-up for British teams ahead of the upcoming English Premier League season. The games capped off a summer of international soccer at Mercedes-Benz, another step in Atlanta’s quest to cement itself as the country’s up-and-coming soccer capital.
10 reasons I love the Peachtree
Every year I run the Peachtree, I’m filled with all sorts of warm and fuzzies about Atlanta and being an Atlantan—which, if you’ve ever attended a pro sports game when we’re playing Boston or Chicago or New York, you know can be a complicated emotion to pinpoint. Here are ten reasons the city’s greatest athletic tradition is one in which we can all partake:
And, Poof, We’re Gone: Game 2 of the Hawks-Cavs Eastern Conference Finals
So there you have it, folks: We lay down on the tracks in game two. Need we dissect the corpse that is the Atlanta Hawks basketball team right now? Let's save ourselves the teeth-gnashing and the grief.
Stacking up the Celebration Bowl and the Peach Bowl
Christmas comes twice for Atlanta college football fans when the Georgia Dome hosts two bowl games: the annual New Year’s Eve Peach Bowl and first-ever Celebration Bowl, a matchup between the respective champions of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Here’s how the two games go head-to-head.
Atlanta United’s new 404 Kit is an homage to the ’90s
The 404 Kit, which launches Tuesday, is all about the ’90s in Atlanta. And to ensure it told an authentically Atlanta story, the club collaborated on the kit with Atlanta Influences Everything, the creative consultancy and brand behind Atlanta's favorite T-shirt. It features "ATL UTD" in a bold, graffiti airbrush font on a black background, with thick white Adidas stripes on the shoulders and white trim on the sides.
Commentary: The joy of self-destruction as a UMass fan at Sanford Stadium
"There’s something deranged about watching the University of Georgia playing the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in football." An Atlantan UMass alum heads to Athens to watch the Minutemen get completely destroyed by the Bulldogs.
With one ethics charge against the Cobb Commission dismissed, critics file a second
Critics of Cobb County's $314 million deal with the Atlanta Braves moved on to round two on Wednesday, filing a new ethics complaint against Cobb commissioners just hours before their first such complaint was summarily dismissed.
Leo Mazzone: Turner Field location ‘not conducive to attracting fans’
Mazzone has fond memories of Turner Field, where he wore out the bench as pitching coach, rocking nervously back and forth in the dugout beside manager Bobby Cox as the two oversaw the most successful stretch in Braves history.
Money Ball: UGA vs. Tech
Since 1893, the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Georgia football teams have battled in a rivalry known as “clean, old-fashioned hate.” We’ll let sports geeks crunch stats on wins and losses.* But as the teams prepare to face off November 30 at Bobby Dodd Stadium, here’s an analysis of what really matters: dollars and cents.
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