Sports

Dogs hyped up in 2008
At the annual Pigskin Preview on Tuesday in Macon, the Georgia football players and staff talk about how they’ve dealt with summer of lofty predictions as they approach one of the most highly anticipated seasons in recent history.

Tech has ‘option’ for improvement
New Georgia Tech football coach Paul Johnson has shown his new team the triple-option offense is more than three yards and a cloud of dust.

Rams eye return to top
Albany State missed out on the conference title for the first time in four years last season and hope a year away can bring back the drive to return to the top.

Local swimming troupe shines at Americus event
Albany’s Flint River Rapids club swim team — also Georgia's only Level 2 USA-Swimmingtroupe — won the Kirt Myers Blue Tide Classic in Americus last Saturday.