DALTON, Ga. -- On a night when Dalton High School celebrated its rich football tradition, it was a progam with basically none that stole the show.

Well, the Danica Patrick experiment is about to come to fruition with word she is close to completing a Nationwide Series deal with JR Motorsports.

Year two of the region playoff round in Georgia is here, and though some confusion still exists with fans, the coaches involved believe it's the best way to settle a sub-divided region's playoff field.

RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Martez Eastland doesn't mean to be rude, and the soft-spoken Ringgold High School football star would never want people to think he goes around angry all the time.

TUNNEL HILL, Ga. -- Stryker Brown could sense a giant shift in momentum, so the Dalton senior quarterback went to work. Two plays later the Catamounts scored a touchdown that helped seal a 35-11 sub-region win on the road Friday night at Northwest Whitfield.

Talladega and Halloween. It’s such a perfect match that it makes you wonder why the two haven’t been paired before now.

If only it were this simple, not to mention dramatic, all the time.

Michelle Spangler was all smiles, the little kid in the Notre Dame High School soccer player out there for all to see. She had just joined a few teammates in using the mudpit that was the Camp Jordan soccer field as a slip-'n'-slide moments after the Lady Irish completed an 8-1 rout of visiting DeKalb County in the Region 4-A/AA playoffs.

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- As Dana Mull searched for answers, the look on the Gordon Lee High School softball coach's face said plenty.

NASCAR is different from every other professional sport in that it's both an individual and a team sport. A great driver won't be very good with a mediocre team, and vice versa.