The Southern States Athletic Conference announced the 2020 SSAC men's golf award winners, highlighted by Dalton State's Ben Rebne being named 2020 SSAC Men's Golf Player of the Year. The league also announced First-Team All-Conference, All-Freshman Team, All-Academic Team and Musco Lighting Champions of Character Team. Rebne goes back-to-back in winning the award. He joins ... (click for more)

The Lee softball team had visions of recreating a magical 2017 run to the NCAA Super Regional in 2020 with a stacked senior class finally healthy and key additions to the pitching staff making a huge impact early on. Those dreams were cut short as the Lady Flames prepared to host GSC rival West Florida in a three-game series at Butler Field on Mar. 13-14. Seniors Abby ... (click for more)

Georgia state health officials said Wednesday evening that another 7 people have died from the coronavirus since this morning, bringing the total to 369. The confirmed cases are now over 10,000, at 10,189, up from 9,156 on Tuesday. Officials said 2,082 have been hospitalized in Georgia with the deadly virus - up from 1,899 on Tuesday. Whitfield County remains at 21 cases ... (click for more)

Tennessee now has 79 coronavirus deaths - up seven since the Tuesday report. Cases have gone up from 4,138 to 4,362. Officials said 449 people have been hospitalized in the state from coronavirus. The state report shows 94 cases in Hamilton County and nine deaths. Bradley County is at 28 cases of the deadly new strain of virus. Marion County remains at 21 cases. It ... (click for more)

What if there is a COVID-19 conspiracy? The internet, radio talk shows, and the national news networks talk conspiracy all night and all day from all angles. Pro Trump, anti Trump, 5G network, Chinese bio-lab accident or maybe not. Could be as advertised, a new virus (read flu) that is very strong because no one has ever had it before and there is no natural built up immunity. Like ... (click for more)

On Friday morning the phone rang at 1 a.m., calling Manny Sethi – who is in a race to become the next senator from Tennessee – to come to the hospital. Sethi, who is one of Nashville’s premier trauma surgeons, would then perform not one surgery, but nine more before he went back home about mid-morning on Monday. “I guess I was working about 80 hours a week in the operating room,” ... (click for more)