Sports Leisure

As alumni prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Tech High School, the “School of Champions,” what comes to mind are the many graduates who went on to become movers and shakers not only in Atlanta, but…

Memo to the National Football League Hall of Fame: What are the criteria for membership? It’s certainly not sheer performance or else Maxie Calloway Baughan, Jr. would have been selected a long time ago. How can you admit players with…

Every true Georgia Bulldog fan knows the seven Ugas have been damn good dogs, but how many know that their owner Frank Wilkins “Sonny” Seiler has been a damn good man? Marathon swimmer, movie actor, author, president of the University…

As a 6-year-old, Asher Isaac Benator sold shopping bags for 5 cents apiece in front of Rich’s department store in downtown Atlanta. Today he heads a group that purchased part of that same building (which morphed from Rich’s to Macy’s)…

In the annals of baseball history, few families have been represented across three generations. One that comes to mind – and probably the most successful – is the Bagby family. James Charles Jacob Bagby (Old Sarge) won 129 games, mostly…

Who would you say is the most successful coach in America? If you said Bobby Cox, Vince Dooley, Joe Paterno or “Coach K,” you’d be wrong. How about Robert Nash (Pete) Higgins, who’s beginning his 48th year as swimming coach…

Langdale, Bazemore, McCrary, Grant, Bennett, Schrorer. These are a few of the Wildcats in the Valdosta-Lowndes County Sports Hall of Fame. Though there are too many to name individually, one standout is William Barrowman (Barry) Phillips, who made his mark…

Hurricane Katrina is long gone but not forgotten – not as far as Edmund (Zeke) Bratkowski is concerned. The former University of Georgia passing sensation delivered food, clothing and furniture to the needy just as he once delivered touchdown passes…

If New York Yankees Manager Miller Huggins had chosen to keep Johnny Suggs instead of Herb Pennock in 1923, Mae Louise Suggs might have become a New York Yankee baseball fan instead of one of the world’s greatest women golfers.…