Friday, April 5, 2013
More than 800 AAU youth basketball players are headed to Cobb County this weekend.
Atlanta may have the Final Four this weekend, but Smyrna will have the Each One Teach One Basketball Hardwood Classic. The 3-day event, which begins today, will feature more than 800 AAU youth basketball players, spokeswoman Natalie Springfield said. It is hosted by one of the top AAU organizations, Each One Teach One Basketball. The Battle at the Four-Hardwood Classic is part of the five-state Southeastern Cup Series, the largest youth basketball series in the region. Regular games will be played today and Saturday at the Smyrna Community Center and Kennesaw State University University Convocation Center. The championship games will be played Sunday at Kennesaw State. The parents of Jeremy Nelson, the 12-year-old Gwinnett seventh-grade …
Friday, July 27, 2012
Darryl Slack will scout upcoming opponents, and help with recruiting and on-court coaching.
Darryl Slack, who spent the previous two seasons as a graduate assistant at Georgia Tech, has been hired as an assistant coach by Kennesaw State University head men’s basketball coach Lewis Preston. Slack, who completes Preston’s staff, will coordinate team community service, travel and film exchange, while scouting upcoming opponents and assisting in recruiting and on-court coaching. He also will be involved with individual summer camps. "I am fortunate to learn under an experienced staff led by Coach Preston," Slack said. "This is a great opportunity that I will take full advantage of while helping to build the Kennesaw State University men’s basketball program into a perennial contender in the Atlantic Sun Conference." During his two …
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
See some of the day’s top headlines from throughout Cobb County including a legal challenge to the TSPLOST and a man’s fight to save his home.
More people are stepping up to challenge language of the TSPLOST ballot question preamble, and this time the challenge may come as a lawsuit. The Transportation Leadership Coalition (TLC)took the first formal step towards challengingGeorgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for adding promotional language to the official state ballot to promote passage of Referendum 1 or the Transportation Investment Act. Read more about the Transportation Leadership Coalition’s legal challenge on South Cobb Patch. A Northeast Cobb man who feels he has been unjustly foreclosed upon by his bank has begun a 24 hour, seven day a week occupation protest to save his home. Steve Bordeaux, an unemployed homeowner, has been fighting to keep his out of foreclosure. In…
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Cobb County citizens will get to vote on whether to allow package sales of alcohol on Sundays.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners is meeting at 9 a.m. in the boardroom at 100 Cherokee St. off Marietta Square. The top item on the agenda is a proposal to let Cobb County citizens vote in March on whether to allow package alcohol sales on Sundays. We're using CoverItLive to, well, cover it live; jump in and join the conversation. Commission Chairman Tim Lee presented a measure to the board to approve a resolution on Sunday sales, and no one else commented before the board voted unanimously in favor, 4-0. Lee's comments indicated that he sounded out his fellow commissioners about the proposal before bringing it before the public and knew they would agree. By holding the Sunday-sales vote at the same time as the presidential primary, …
