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BONANZA – The Antlers aren’t just excellent; they revel in their excellence.

They know they’re excellent, expect it, celebrate it.

Fourth-and-inches.

That’s where Mazama had the ball with eleven seconds on the clock Friday night at Viking Field against the Henley Hornets in a Skyline Conference title-deciding game.

July 04, 2019

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In the belly of the Gulch outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, David Prophitt sets up for the All Stripes Stonewall 50th Anniversary tailgate before an Atlanta United match. He’s running around, writing a menu on a sandwich board and pulling tables together.

In her 11th game for the Dream, Maite Cazorla was subbed in against the Connecticut Sun – the No. 2 team in the WNBA –as the Dream trailed by four points at State Farm Arena. She got the inbound pass, came off a screen and – after just five seconds on the court – drove down the middle of the lane for a layup.

The Falcons have struggled in short-yardage situations. 

Despite finishing the 2018 regular season ranked fourth in the NFL in third-down conversions, the Falcons were more productive on third-and-4 or third-and-5 than they were on third down and 1-3 yards to go, according to offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.

Tampa, Fla. – Baylor’s Chloe Jackson drove to the basket for a gutsy, contested layup with six seconds on the clock in the final quarter of the 2019 National Championship game. The ball rattled around the rim before finally dropping and giving the Lady Bears a critical two-point lead with just three seconds to go.

Eugene Weekly

On the last Wednesday of every month, in the back corner of Falling Sky Pour House and Delicatessen in Eugene, members of Trans*Ponder — an education and advocacy nonprofit in Eugene that serves trans- and gender-diverse people — gather together to talk, drink and eat at the end of a long farm-style table beneath the soft glow of string lights. 

​Coco Gauff garnered international attention earlier this month when she beat Venus Williams in the first round of the main draw at the Wimbledon in straight sets (6-3, 6-3). For the 15-year old, it was her first Grand Slam appearance as the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon in the open era.

The New York Liberty’s Asia Durr is a hometown hero for some in Atlanta.The St. Pius X Catholic School graduate from Douglasville was featured in a 2008 Atlanta Dream commercial for the franchise’s inaugural season.

Authorities took a man into custody Tuesday night following a SWAT standoff outside a home in Alpharetta. Police arrived with a warrant for a different man, but Jason Cude came out of the house on Academy Road before barricading himself inside, Channel 2 Action News reported.

In the postgame news conference after Friday’s win, the Dream’s Renee Montgomery walked into the room with teammate Elizabeth Williams trailing her. Montgomery entered yelling, “(Elizabeth’s) coming! (Elizabeth’s) coming. She has two good games and it goes to her head.” 

An aggregation of all my writing from the 2019 NCAA women's basketball tournament, including Oregon women's basketball's first-ever Final Four run and a freelanced story from the national championship for Women's Hoops World.

Annette Parsons and Jim Clover sat in folding lawn chairs waiting for fire crews to ignite the meadow behind their home and vineyard in the Applegate Valley of southern Oregon. The crew was planning to burn four acres of meadow on the first day, but in total, 24 acres of Parsons and Clover’s land were set to burn over the course of the two-week prescribed fire training.