Bill Banks
By Bill Banks, contributor I can’t remember when I first met Doc and Gwen Fowlkes. I’ve been going to Decatur High football and basketball—later softball and baseball—games regularly since the mid-1990s. Somewhere along the way ...
By Bill Banks, contributor Columbus –The Decatur girls basketball team’s storybook season thoroughly unraveled Saturday afternoon into an aimless narrative of one missed shot after another. Playing in their first Final Four game in 43 ...
By Bill Banks, contributor The third-ranked Decatur Bulldogs (29-2) meet second-ranked Laney High of Augusta (27-3) in Saturday’s semifinal opener at the 4500-seat Frank G. Lumpkin Jr. Center on the Columbus State University campus. It’s ...
This story has been updated. By Bill Banks, contributor Decatur’s girls rode the broad shoulders of junior post Janay Williams’ 23 points and 22 rebounds and now will keep cruising, straight to Columbus for their ...
The Decatur High Girls basketball team has beaten Kendrick High School 64-49. The team will now advance to the final four for the first time since 1972. Decatur beat Ringgold on Saturday, 66-46. There next game ...
By Bill Banks, contributor Utilizing their characteristic grinding, physical tenacity Decatur’s girls systematically wore down Ringgold Saturday night, 66-46, in a second-round state tournament game at the Decatur High Arena. This Decatur team was a ...
This story has been updated. By Bill Banks, contributor It took Decatur girls basketball team 18 minutes to shake off their lethargy before cruising to a routine, if often erratic, 53-36 victory over Josey on ...
This story has been updated. By Bill Banks, contributor Decatur’s girls’ basketball team used an impromptu 2-1-2 full-court press to roar past previously unbeaten South Atlanta 56-38, for the Region 4-AAA championship at Douglass High ...
By Bill Banks, contributor There’s a lot not to like about football these days. The National Football League is stocked with criminals and the money Ole Miss paid this week to simply replace its goalposts ...
By Bill Banks, contributor Decatur High 2010 graduate Nic Wilson was named the Appalachian League’s “Player of The Week” for July 21-27, as selected by the MiLB.com (Minor League Baseball) staff. Wilson is the son ...