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Buford High School (Georgia)
Buford High School is a public, four-year, comprehensive high school located in Buford, Georgia, United States, in the Gwinnett area of Northside Atlanta History Buford High School was opened in 1948. In 2009, it was awarded a silver award by the State of Georgia Governor's Office of Achievement for "Highest Percentage of Students Meeting and Exceeding Standards". Academics For the 2010-2011 school years, the school had the highest passing rate in the Georgia Graduation Test, with 96% passing. Buford also ranks in the top 6% of students who pass AP courses.. A part of the greater Buford City Schools System, Buford was ranked by reviewers on the review site Niche as the top school system in the state. Athletics Buford has won state championships in the following: * Baseball (1977, 2011, 2015) * Boys' basketball (2017, 2019) * Girls' basketball (2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) * Football (1978, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buford, Georgia
Buford is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett and Hall County, Georgia, Hall counties in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,144. Most of the city is in Gwinnett County, which is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area. The northern sliver of the city is in Hall County, which comprises the Gainesville, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area and is part of the larger Atlanta-Athens, Georgia, Athens-Clarke-Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area. The city was founded in 1872 after a railroad was built in the area connecting Charlotte, North Carolina, with Atlanta. Buford was named after Algernon Sidney Buford, who at the time was president of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway. The city's leather industry, led by the Bona Allen Company, as well as its location as a railway stop, caused the population to expand during the early 1900s until af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Ferguson (American Football)
Blake Whittfield Ferguson (born April 21, 1997) is an American football long snapper for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at LSU, winning a national championship in 2020. College career Ferguson played college football for LSU from 2015 to 2019. He played in 52 games at long snapper, and was also a two-year captain of the team. Professional career Ferguson was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the sixth round (185th overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft. He signed a four-year contract on May 10. He was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the Dolphins on July 27, 2020, and was activated from the list six days later. Personal life He is the younger brother of Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. ... long snappe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Walker
Darius Adunte Walker (born October 21, 1985) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) and current college football analyst for Fox. He worked as a college football analyst and sideline reporter for MountainWest Sports Network in 2011. He was signed by the Houston Texans in 2007. He played college football at Notre Dame. Early years Walker attended Buford High School where he rushed for 5,676 rushing yards and 91 touchdowns and helped his team compile a four-year record of 58–2 and four straight state title game appearances, including three title game victories as part of a 45-game winning streak. In 2003, his senior year, he scored 46 touchdowns, breaking Herschel Walker’s Georgia single-season record of 42. He was named the Gatorade Player of the Year in Georgia and selected as the Georgia prep player of the year for 2003 by the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution''. College career At Notre Dame, Walker owns the school record for most re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christi Thomas
Christi Michelle Thomas (born August 14, 1982) played professional basketball in the WNBA. She attended the University of Georgia where she played under coach Andy Landers. She has been a professional since 2004. Christi also played basketball at Buford High School in Buford, Georgia, where she led the Buford Wolves to a State Runner-Up finish in 1999. She's 6 ft 5 in (1.91 m) and weighs 185 lb (84 kg). On January 30, 2009 Thomas was traded to the Minnesota Lynx for Vanessa Hayden-Johnson. WNBA career statistics Regular season , - , align="left" , 2004 , align="left" , Los Angeles , 31 , , 8 , , 17.6 , , .462 , , .455 , , .683 , , 3.9 , , 0.7 , , 0.6 , , 0.5 , , 0.9 , , 5.3 , - , align="left" , 2005 , align="left" , Los Angeles , 32 , , 0 , , 16.3 , , .500 , , .333 , , .688 , , 3.3 , , 0.5 , , 0.3 , , 0.6 , , 0.8 , , 3.8 , - , align="left" , 2006 , align="left" , Los Angeles , 27 , , 1 , , 20.0 , , .489 , , .200 , , .638 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a city in Canada. They are divided into two divisions: four teams in the East Division and five teams in the West Division. As of 2022, it features a 21-week regular season in which each team plays 18 games with three bye weeks. This season traditionally runs from mid-June to early November. Following the regular season, six teams compete in the league's three-week playoffs, which culminate in the Grey Cup championship game in late November. The Grey Cup is one of Canada's largest annual sports and television events. The CFL was officially named on January 19, 1958, upon the merger between the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union or "Big Four" (founded in 1907) and the Western Interprovincial Football Union (founded in 1936). History Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne Sam
Lorne Wallace Sam (born December 5, 1984) is a former professional American and Canadian football quarterback. He was signed by the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Texas-El Paso. Sam has been a member of the Green Bay Packers and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was also the starting quarterback for the Coventry Jets in the United Kingdom. He is the younger brother of NFL wide receiver P. K. Sam. College career Sam originally played at Florida State, but transferred to University Texas-El Paso for his final two years of college. A versatile collegiate player, Sam was exclusively used as a wide receiver at Florida State, but at UTEP he played both quarterback and running back. Professional career Denver Broncos Sam was signed by the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent on April 28, 2008 but was waived four months later on August 25. Green Bay Packers Sam was signed to the Green Bay Packers' practice squad on December 3, 2008. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Football League
The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL) until the AFL closed in 2019. The AFL played a formerly proprietary code known as arena football, a form of indoor American football played on a 66-by-28 yard field (about a quarter of the surface area of an NFL field), with rules encouraging offensive performance, resulting in a typically faster-paced and higher-scoring game compared to NFL games. The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League (USFL) and the NFL. Each of the league's 32 seasons culminated in the ArenaBowl, with the winner being crowned the league's champion for that season. From 2000 to 2009, the AF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Roper
Justin Parks Roper (born July 28, 1987) is a former American football quarterback who played one season in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Chicago Rush and Orlando Predators. He played college football at Oregon and Montana. Early years Roper lettered in football, basketball, track and field and swimming for the Buford High School Wolves of Buford, Georgia. He was ranked as one of the top 28 quarterbacks in the country after compiling a 12–1 record and an 8-AA league championship in 2005. College career Roper was redshirted by the Oregon Ducks of the University of Oregon in 2006. He made his first collegiate start in the 2007 Sun Bowl on December 31, 2007 against the South Florida Bulls, throwing for four touchdowns and leading the Ducks to a 56–21 victory. He finished his career at the University of Oregon with nine touchdown passes and 952 passing yards. Roper transferred to the University of Montana in 2009, where he played football for the Montana Grizzlies. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens Banner-Herald
The ''Athens Banner-Herald'' is a daily newspaper with less than 20,000 circulation located in Athens, Georgia, USA, and owned by Gannett. The paper has a Sunday special and publishes online under the name ''Online Athens''. It has been through a series of restructurings and mergers since 2000, culminating in its sale, along with several other papers, by Morris Communications to Gatehouse Media in August 2017. Since the merger of GateHouse Media and Gannett in November 2019, ''The Athens Banner-Herald'' is now owned by Gannett. History The newspaper traces its history to the ''Southern Banner newspaper which began publishing on March 20, 1832. The paper's masthead and owners were unchanged until 1872, when it was sold and the masthead changed to ''North-East Georgian'' and to ''Athens Weekly Georgian'' after sale, before returning to its original masthead in 1879. The title changed again with its merger with its rival the ''Southern Watchman'' to form the ''Athens Banner-Watchm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Nauta
Isaac Jay Nauta (born May 21, 1997) is an American football tight end who is a free agent. He played college football at Georgia. High school career Nauta attended IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida for his senior season. During his senior season Nauta played in eight games, catching 13 passes for 230 yards and two touchdowns. Nauta played football and basketball while at IMG Academy. In his senior year he was named to the U.S. Army All-American Bowl and USA Today All-USA First-team. Considered a five-star recruit by all major recruiting services, he was rated as the best tight end prospect of his class. He committed to Georgia on January 9, 2016. College career Freshman Considered by far the best true freshman tight end in the country, Nauta finished the season with 353 yards on 27 catches as he developed early chemistry with fellow true freshman quarterback Jacob Eason. Nauta was a key weapon for the Georgia passing game, lining up on the outside and in the slot quite a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Marsh (baseball)
Brandon Chase Marsh (born December 18, 1997) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Angels. Born in Buford, Georgia, Marsh was a multi-sport athlete at Buford High School, where he won a state championship title as a junior. The Angels selected him in the second round of the 2016 MLB Draft, but he missed the 2016 season with a back injury. After debuting with the Orem Owlz in 2017, Marsh progressed through the Angels' farm system, including a breakout turn with the Southern League in 2019. When the 2020 Minor League Baseball season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Marsh was invited to continue his development at an alternate training site. Marsh made his MLB debut in 2021 as a replacement for injured outfielders Mike Trout and Justin Upton. After a slow start to his major league career, he improved offensively throughout the season. Marsh made the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News4Jax
WJXT (channel 4) is an independent television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is owned by Graham Media Group alongside CW affiliate WCWJ (channel 17). Both stations share studios at 4 Broadcast Place on the south bank of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, while WJXT's transmitter is located on Anders Boulevard in the city's Killarney Shores section. History As a CBS affiliate WJXT originally signed on the air on September 15, 1949, as WMBR-TV. It was Jacksonville's first television station, the second television station in Florida and a primary CBS affiliate on VHF channel 4 after WTVJ (also on channel 4, now an NBC owned-and-operated station on channel 6) in Miami–Fort Lauderdale. The station was co-owned alongside WMBR radio (1460 AM, now WQOP; and 96.1 FM, now WEJZ). Though the station was originally a primary CBS affiliate, it also maintained secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC and the DuMont Television Network. In 1953, the WMBR stations were purc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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