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The Cedartown 14-and-younger girls softball team topped all the competition to grab the 2014 Dizzy Dean World Series title July 19 in Southaven, Mississippi.

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

Norman Arey writes about possible changes to the college football season in his column in Thursday's print edition of the Rome News-Tribune.

Whether you’re an avid runner, a jogger or a walker, the GoGo Running Club is fit for all.

Three Rivers Swim Club had two swimmers, Marcus and Samson Mumber, participating at the 14-and-younger Long Course (50 meter) State Meet at Georgia Tech.

After enduring brain surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Charlie Henderson set a goal for himself: Raise as much money as possible for children with brain tumors.

Team Stokes are the Go Go Tennis 8.0 league champs. Pictured are Mike Burnes (from left), Eddie Stokes, Capt. Tesha Stokes and Darrel Creel. Not Pictured are Anne Brooking, Callandra Jones and Jeff Barnes.

A new tennis tournament is coming to Rome — the Clocktower Classic Wheelchair Tennis Tournament — and there is still time to register.

Five days have passed since the World Cup concluded in Brazil, and you may be left feeling what millions of people experience every four years: post-Cup blues.

His status as one of Major League Baseball’s best catchers keeps growing despite being in “the show” for less than two years, and his remarkable story of how he has overcome life’s hurdles has been well documented.

Final: Drive 9, Braves 4

The Apache trout in Arizona has a lot in common with its distant cousin, the brook trout in Georgia. Both fish are the state coldwater fish in their respective states, and both fish have had extreme loss of their historical ranges. The brook trout has a stable population and is doing well in its headwater streams in the mountains.

Bradley Jones of Aragon weighed a five-bass limit totaling 18 pounds even to win the fourth Walmart Bass Fishing League Bama Division tournament Saturday on Lake Neely Henry. For his victory Jones earned $4,766.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's national team was welcomed home Monday by thousands of fans celebrating its gutsy performance in the World Cup final.

It took 113 minutes, but in the end Germany finally broke through against Argentina and won the World Cup. It’s their fourth title and the first as a united German nation. Mario Gotze, a substitute, got the winner off a beautiful cross from Andre Schuerrle. 

When the National League All-Star team is introduced before Tuesday night’s “Midsummer Classic” in Minneapolis, Rome Braves fans will hear the names of players that were heard not too long ago at State Mutual Stadium.

Brazil poured public money into this World Cup, angering millions of its citizens. The team demolished by Germany, sparking a national shame that may take years to recover from. Their biggest rivals, Argentina, are in the final with a chance to win the Cup in enemy territory. It couldn’t possibly get worse, right? Wrong. 

Final: Crawdads 8, Braves 1

As she walks up the steps at State Mutual Stadium to her station as an usher in Sections 204-206, Mary McRay enters an arena that has been and still is a huge part of her life.

Norman Arey writes about out some of the low-lights in college sports

Friday, July 11 marks the 100th anniversary of Babe Ruth’s Major League debut.

Final: Tourists 6, Braves 3

The Outlaw travel baseball team from Rome finished in second place at the FSS World Series in Dalton.

Jamious Griffin of Rome Middle School (Rome High Class of 2019) from has been invited and will be competing at Football University’s Top Gun camp at the Dublin Jerome High School in Dublin, Ohio, July 21-23. Griffin was invited to the camp because of his performance as a linebacker at the FBU Atlanta camp. He will join more than 800 of the nation’s other top athletes at their respective positions and will train with current and former NFL players and coaches.