High school football leads off the latest news about Northeast Cobb prep sports teams.
Sprayberry meets Wheeler on Friday, while Kell starts the season in the Georgia Dome on Saturday.
Deaths and spinal injuries from high school football are very rare according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina.
Area private schools gear up for football season in Cobb.
The East Cobb Pigskin Preview breakfast takes place Wednesday.
Senior Bryan Powell is competing at the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation World Junior Games in Puerto Rico.
The Longhorns will start their season in the Georgia Dome in just a few weeks.
The event features former MVP LaDainian Tomlinson at Kennesaw Mountain High School.
The Longhorns' standout was named the top female high school track and field athlete in the nation.
The fundraising event takes place at Brookfield Country Club in Roswell.
Hear what head coach Brian Bohannon is telling recruits about the brand-new program -- and the school.
Major League Baseball completed its first-year draft over the weekend.
Jimmy Yoder of Lassiter and Kendell Williams of Kell have been named among the best in the state.
Students in K-5 are invited to sign up to play, and to cheerlead, in the Kell, Pope, Sprayberry, Walton and Wheeler school districts.
The Pittsburgh Steelers running back and former Georgia Tech star is returning to his alma mater for a youth event next week.
Brady Smith was chosen from among metro area high school baseball players.
The Pope and Walton baseball teams are playing at home Monday afternoon in the semifinals.
The Lady Trojans will face Milton for the state title; Pope and Walton baseball play quarterfinal rubber matches today.
The Longhorns' track star won the state 100-meter hurdle crown on Saturday.
The Kell and Sprayberry girls and Walton and Pope boys also fell in Saturday's quarterfinal action.
She now has 10 state track championships and broke her own long jump record on Friday.
The Pope baseball team advanced to the quarterfinals; the Pope and Lassiter girls soccer teams and Pope boys lacrosse teams were eliminated.
Spring practice and regular season contests for Kell, Lassiter, Pope, Sprayberry, The Walker School, Walton and Wheeler.
The Longhorns were eliminated from the state baseball playoffs Thursday.
The Sprayberry and Kell girls also advanced in state lacrosse playoff action Wednesday.
The girls soccer and lacrosse teams are moving on in the GHSA playoffs.
Make sure your favorite sports teams are highlighted on Northeast Cobb Patch this season!
But the Trojans have to hit the road in the first round on Wednesday.
Pope, Kell and Marietta dodged the raindrops with sweeps, but Walton and McEachern are among those facing delayed rubber matches.
The Raiders and Greyhounds will be playing at home Friday; the Longhorns are on the road.
The Pittsburgh Steelers running back and former Georgia Tech star is returning to his alma mater for a youth event May 31-June 1.
The Trojans, Walton and Kell went out in the first round Wednesday, but Pope advanced.
Cobb schools will be well-represented on Thursday, including the 1,600-meter run to finish the day.
Harrison, Walton, Lassiter, Pope and Hillgrove were among the first-round winners Tuesday.
The top-ranked Trojans play at home Wednesday in their first round Class AAAAAA playoff game.
The ex-Lassiter standout was one of three former East Cobb-area prep stars who did not get drafted.
17 seniors gathered on Wednesday to make their college choices official.
Who do you think will win it all? Syracuse, Michigan, Wichita State or Louisville?
Fans attending Thursday's home game with Lassiter are asked to bring a pair of new children's shoes to benefit My Sister's House.
Brian Bohannon was introduced as the Owls' first head football coach on Tuesday.