Atlanta club honors Pruett as top coach By TIM STEPHENS The Herald-Dispatch tims@hdonline.com HUNTINGTON - Marshall's Bobby Pruett was named the winner of the Frank Sinkwich Award as the NCAA Division I-A football coach of the year Saturday night by the Atlanta Touchdown Club.Pruett said he was quite surprised by the honor."They asked me to come down there, but they didn't tell me why," Pruett said....
If you build it, they will come." That line referred to a baseball diamond in the movie "Field of Dreams." In Atlanta, it could just as easily refer to golf/country club communities. From Laurel Springs in Forsyth County to Eagle's Landing in Henry, from Brookstone in Cobb to Sugarloaf in Gwinnett, the communities have been sprouting up all over Atlanta for 30 years. The trend shows no signs of a slowdown. As baby boomers age, golf is growing...
The Olde Atlanta Club, a popular, "new" neighborhood in south Forsyth County, stands as a perfect example of Atlanta's explosive economic and population growth. It took only seven years to develop, build out and populate the golf course community of 630 homes just over the Fulton County line off Ga. 141. But at the time the project started, few folks envisioned it happening so quickly."In 1993, that part of town was really...
Ray Lewis placed a laser pointer in his fist and showed jurors Tuesday how a friend described holding a knife and described striking a man repeatedly during a street brawl that left two men dead after the Super Bowl.The Baltimore Ravens linebacker, testifying one day after murder charges against him were dropped, said he asked Joseph Sweeting what happened in the hours after the Jan. 31 fight. Sweeting said, "Every time they hit me, I hit them," Lewis testified,...