Tag: sports

30 years ago this year, Atlantans marveled as the spectacle of the Summer Olympic Games took over the city. It put Atlanta on the world's stage and helped pave the way for the city to host this summer's epic sporting event, the 2026 World Cup. Atlanta United is honoring the impact of those Olympic games with its new secondary kit, which will replace 2024's Resurgens Kit.

When the Super Bowl kicks off on February 8, Taylor Rooks will be watching live from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It’s familiar territory for the Gwinnett County native, who hosts Prime Video’s NBA broadcasts and reports for the streamer’s Thursday Night Football. Rather than being in the thick of the action, she draws on her childhood spent around athletes to show audiences what makes these sporting superstars tick.

These are Atlanta's 500 most powerful leaders. We spent months consulting experts and sorting through nominations to get a list of the city's most influential people—from artists to chefs to philanthropists to sports coaches and corporate CEOs. In this section, we focus on arts, film, music, entertainment, and sports.

"I’ve rarely seen this city more electric for a sporting event, and I’ve reveled in downtown masses for some of the biggest Falcons, Hawks, and United games of the past decade. From Krog Street Market to Castleberry Hill, the “Hoo-Hoo-Hoo Hoosiers” buzz was palpable." Writer Josh Green, an Indiana native, pens this essay about what happened when the historically terrible IU football team came to Atlanta as champions and brought thousands of Hoosier faithful with them.

Beau Estes decided to be a sportscaster at age eight. The kid who graduated high school in Norcross got his wish after NBC created an Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting certificate program for area college students. By 2008, he was a Turner mainstay working his dream job, creating content for Turner Sports (now TNT Sports) provided to NBA TV, including commentary for an NBA.com “Top 10” highlights reel.

It’s a Saturday night at Gas South Arena in Duluth, and Naomi Osaka and Aryna Sabalenka are deep in a rally. Osaka floats up a lob; Sabalenka chases it down and answers with a tweener—a shot between the legs while facing away from the net—before closing the point with a backhand drop shot. She immediately spins around and locks eyes with Nick Kyrgios, king of the tweener, who’s watching from the stands. The crowd erupts.

Atlanta’s World Cup future has finally come into focus with teams now drawn for the group stage. On Friday, hundreds of Atlantans descended on Fadó Irish Pub in Buckhead Village for a party hosted by Atlanta’s World Cup Committee to watch the FIFA Draw announcement at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Centre, where the qualifying teams were split into four-team groups.

Looking back, it’s hard to believe that the Atlanta Braves won only one World Championship during the Bobby Cox era. The team set a standard for excellence with a record 14-straight Eastern Division championships and made it to the World Series five times. But it was still a magical time to be a baseball fan in Atlanta.

For the 30th anniversary of Atlanta's first sports championship, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Marquis Grissom, and more look back on the first moments of spring training to the final out of the 1995 World Series.

Tucked along a stretch of East Point’s Sumner Park, the Dick Lane Velodrome is a concrete time machine where neighborhood kids, adults, and elite athletes alike chase speed and strategy in thundering laps. The high-banked racetrack, a centuries-old invention, invites cyclists to push the limits of physics at breakneck speeds in a crucible of grit and centrifugal force.