Active Climbing is more than brick warehouse

At first glance, the brick warehouse located at 665 Barber Street looks just like any old building, but inside thrives a gym unlike any other in the Athens area. Active Climbing, a gym dedicated to both indoor and outdoor rock climbing, opened in April of 2009 and is the first gym of its kind in [...]

Braves face big changes for next season

The 2011 offseason held a lot of questions for the Atlanta Braves, highlighted by the imminent departure of Braves Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox. Additionally, a few prominent utility players made their egress from Atlanta via trades and free agency, but Executive Vice President and General Manager Frank Wren left no time for fans [...]

Hawks still in chase for East despite many trades in league

The Atlanta Hawks did what they needed to do in the offseason in order to stay competitive in the tight Southeast Conference – they signed Joe Johnson to a max contract, keeping him in an Atlanta uniform for the next six years. Regardless of what Johnson did last year in the Hawks’s defeat to the [...]

Intramural sports at GSCO give students options to stay healthy

Every year, college students are faced with the challenge of finding a fun way to stay in shape, while also having a place to release ones competitive nature. For GSCO students, though, this dilemma is easily solved with the fun and good-natured competition offered through intramural sports. Currently there are two sports offered on the [...]

Enjoy the forgotten sport as UGA basketball rolls on

What do you think of when you think of sports in Athens? Your first thought is of course football. Sports activity in Athens has always been centered on football. Come football season, Athens is filled with nothing but die hard, red and black bleeding football fans. Tailgates are everywhere to be found with burgers, hotdogs, [...]

Glads win home opener against Stingrays

DULUTH, GA- The Gwinnett Gladiators won their first home game of the new season by defeating their division rival South Carolina Stingrays 6-2 on Friday Oct. 22. The win comes after the Glads released forward Daniel Sullivan the day before.  With many questions in the air about the Glads releasing the veteran, Coach Jeff Pyle [...]

Intramural kicks off its fall season

GSCO’s intramural football program kicked off its fall season on Sept 14 with two very exciting games, as Swagga Stoopid defeated the Grizzlies 19-13 and 2 Legit 2 Quit beat up on the Fighting Geese 33-13. Two days later, Beatin’ Guts and Athens Assassins claimed their firsts wins of the season, as Beatin’ Guts defeated [...]

Superstition finds its way into sports fans

      Rabun County head football Coach Danny Durham walks onto the football field every Friday night looking just like the other coaches. He has on his team shirt, his slacks and his tennis shoes. But he is wearing one thing that is like no one else. The belt that is supposed to be holding up his [...]

SEC 2010 football season is finally upon us

The long anticipated 2010 college football season is finally upon us. We learned a lot from all of the week one match-ups from the SEC two weekends ago. We found out that Florida is not going to be the same without Tim Tebow. Alabama pick up right where it left off from its magical 2010 [...]

Intramurals at GSCO offer fun for all

This fall, GSC Oconee will offer flag football and video game leagues to its students as a part of the school’s intramural program. Beginning Sept. 14, flag football games will be played every Tuesday and Thursday from 4-7pm at the Athens YWCO off of Research Drive. Unlike in past years, this fall’s flag football registration [...]

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