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ROLLASON: A 'Giant' Super Bowl win for the ages

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Saturday, February 11. 2012

This past Sunday the New York Giants won their fourth Super Bowl in franchise history. They defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI, the second successful Super Bowl win over the Patriots in four years. Eli Manning won his second Super Bowl MVP award, and his second while going head-to-head with Tom Brady — who some claim ... [Full Story »]

MCHS boys to play Fri.; girls play Sat.

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Friday, February 10. 2012

The Madison County boys’ basketball team plays Friday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m. versus Flowery Branch at Flowery Branch High School. The girls’ varsity squad will host Apalachee at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11.

AHS swimmers to compete at state

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Friday, February 10. 2012

Samuel Ransom, Sam Allen, Cole Fragapane and Joe Allen will each compete at the state swim meet Friday at Georgia Tech. Each Apalachee High School team member earned qualifying marks during the regular season to gain the chance to compete at state. The Swim Cats will compete in a relay event after beating the state time of 1:41.5. Ransom, Sam ... [Full Story »]

Resby captures region title

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Friday, February 10. 2012

Red Raider Steven Resby is a region champion. The Madison County senior wrestler captured the Region 8-AAAA title at 182 lbs. at Habersham Central this past weekend. Resby was reluctant to say much about the title at practice Feb. 6, allowing that it feels pretty great to take that title back home. But his coach, Ritchie Houston, said the ... [Full Story »]

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? A look at former Madison County Red Raider Steve Sanders

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Friday, February 10. 2012

Name: Steve Sanders Class of: 1999 Sports Played At MCHS: Varsity football QB, DB, PR, KR. Played under Dale Smallen in 1997. Won the Most Valuable Player in 1998 under Tom Hybl. Played Junior Varsity in 1995. Sanders was a point guard on the Raider basketball team under Charles Wilkes in 1997-98. Played under Kenny Walker (1998-99), and ... [Full Story »]

7th grade Mustangs win at buzzer; 8th graders rally but fall short

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Thursday, February 9. 2012

By Dallas Bordon There are two things seventh grade Mustang Keith Gantt might remember for a long time — one good and one bad. With 19.1 seconds left to play in the middle school region title game, Gantt’s inbound pass was picked off by a Hart County player who drove down for the layup to give Hart what seemed to be the win. But hold on, ... [Full Story »]

Photos of the week

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Thursday, February 9. 2012

Snapshots of action from the local sports scene cp_load_widget('AoEAv2qGoko7', 'cincopa_widget_f0a4c845-e623-4280-bcc4-73f1c1e3717d'); Click here to open the gallery. Powered by Cincopa Media Platform for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer . [Full Story »]