The NCAA’s going to have fun figuring this one out. OBJ gives LSU football players real cash money once the championship game ends Monday. QB Joe Burrow says he’s not a student-athlete anymore, so why not. Neither are seven Tiger underclassmen who turned pro.

ALBANY – On Saturday, Colquitt County High’s girls swim team took second place overall at the Lee County Invitational and – for the secodn week in a row – had a relay team make the GHSA qualifying time for the championships taking place in February.

MOULTRIE – There were times when Colquitt County High boys basketball coach Tremaine Facison said the Packers waited to late to turn things on during a game, like last Tuesday at Dooly County. The result was an overtime loss, the team's second such setback in as many games.

Did you ever think about whom the most popular players are on a basketball team? The ones who receive the loudest ovations when they make a move towards the scorer’s table are … the last ones at the end of the bench.

DOUGLAS – With just more than a month from the major meet of the season, Colquitt County High’s girls 200-yard medley relay team made the qualifying time needed for the GHSA championships. The Packers were swimming at the 17th annual Trojan Invitational hosted by Coffee County High Saturday,…

KINGSLAND – It’s the one day of the year Rondesha Williams dreads the most as Colquitt County High girls basketball coach, and fortunately for the year 2020 it’s already come and gone.

MOULTRIE — Colquitt County High’s Timothy Fagan finished first and teammate Hunter Kebler was right behind in second in the 1-meter diving event at the recent MJB Meet of Champions.

MOULTRIE — Ethan Sellers won four of his six matches and turned in a fourth-place finish to lead the Colquitt County wrestling team in the Knockout Christmas Classic on Saturday in Kissimmee, Fla.

MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County girls basketball team defeated Mitchell County 57-19 on Saturday and won two of its three games in the Vereen Rehabilitation Christmas Shootout held on the William Bryant Court.

MOULTRIE — One of the most pleasant surprises of 2019 in Colquitt County athletics was the play of the Colquitt County softball team.

MOULTRIE — It was clear that Colquitt County senior Janiah Ellis had a chance to go over 1,000 career points when the Lady Packers played in the recent Peach State Holiday Tournament at Westlake High.

MOULTRIE — Austin Paradice finished first at 145 pounds to help lead the Colquitt County wrestling team to a fifth-place finish at the Wildcat Invitational on Saturday in Valdosta.

MOULTRIE — Former Packer Ty Phillips closed out his fine career at Georgia Southern on Saturday in the Eagles’ 23-16 loss to Liberty University in the Cure Bowl in Orlando.

MOULTRIE – The Colquitt County seventh-grade girls' basketball team defeated 8th Street Middle School 35-29 in Tifton on Saturday to claim the South Georgia Big Five Conference Championship.

As 2019 gets closer to an end, I find myself memorializing another personality with whom I crossed paths numerous times in this sports reporting career.

MOULTRIE – Lynnsey Bell had a pair of first-place finishes to help lead the Colquitt County middle school swim team to a third-place finish in Wednesday’s Coffee Middle School Invitation in Douglas.

MOULTRIE – Jo Beth Weaver has recently retired as the head softball coach at North Cobb High School after winning 502 games during her career.

MOULTRIE — Twenty-five years removed from Colquitt County’s first Georgia High School Association state football championship, the Packers coach then most remembers his team’s confidence.

MOULTRIE — Led by first-place finishers turned in by Alison Bell and Madison Gonzales, the Colquitt County girls swim team placed second in the Coffee Trojan Invitational held last Saturday in Douglas.

The last two seasons, Brian Merritt played on Colquitt County football teams that lost state championship games in excrutiatingly close fashion.

MOULTRIE — Colquitt County head football coach Justin Rogers can list hundreds of benefits to starting work on a new football season now vs. April.

MOULTRIE — For the second game in a row, Janiah Ellis and freshman Carliss Johnson put up big offensive numbers on Tuesday and the efforts have helped vault the Lady Packers to a 7-1 record.

MOULTRIE — The remnants of an emotional tie-breaker loss to Tift County in its final pool match might have cost the Colquitt County wrestling team in the finals of the Tift Duals last Saturday in Tifton.

MOULTRIE – With some players missing and facing a top 5 club in the AAA classification, the Colquitt County High boys basketball team fell to Monroe High of Albany 70-59 in the first game held this new season at William Bryant Court last Saturday. The Lady Packers won 68-44 to raise their re…

MOULTRIE - The Colquitt County seventh-grade basketball teams played for the fourth time in eight days Monday, with the girls going 4-0 over that stretch and the boys winning two of the four.

MOULTRIE – With the Georgia High School Association on the brink of crowning state football champions for 2019, Lowndes High in 7A and Warner Robins in 5A are among those going to Georgia State Stadium looking to end long title droughts. Thomasville was a AA semifinalist, so was North Gwinne…

MOULTRIE – Coach Rondesha Williams is pleased with how her 2019-20 Colquitt County High girls have played in their first four basketball games.

MOULTRIE — When Mike Singletary, who was the coordinator of the 1994 defense that many consider the best ever at Colquitt County, is asked about that group, his first response was how deep it was.

Item No. 1 is to give a congratulations to the 2019 Colquitt County High football team for its accomplishments in the first season under coach Justin Rogers. Records were set, records were chased, and major caliber competition went down in defeat. The Packers beat some impressive teams in Cl…

THOMASVILLE – Four Colquitt County High student-athletes fresh off the football field were in basketball uniforms and on the court Monday for head coach Tremaine Facison. With five points each coming from Montavious Ponder and Tyler Walker, the Packers defeated host Brookwood School 70-51 in…

MOULTRIE — It is still, 25 years later, hard to grasp just how dominant the Colquitt County defense was on the way to a 15-0 record and the program’s first state championship.

MOULTRIE – Valdosta had won the last six times it had reached the state championship game when it took the field at Mack Tharpe Stadium to face Colquitt County on December 17, 1994 to play for the Class AAAA state title.