The Central High School Red Raider basketball team will host the District 8-AAA semi-finals at 6 p.m. Wednesday, while the Lady Raiders will host at 8:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale at www.gofan.co beginning on Tuesday, Feb. 23. Each game will have a separate ticket, and the gym will be cleared between games. Tickets will NOT be sold at the gate. Wins for each team will put them in their respective District 8-AAA championship games on Friday. If you cannot attend Wednesday, you can always listen live on Thunder Radio – 107.9 FM, 1320 AM, 106.7 FM, thunder1320.com and...

If Jake Lamb can become the powerful presence he was before being saddled with injuries the past few years, the Braves may have adequately addressed one of their bench needs.  The Braves and Lamb are in agreement on a one-year contract, according to a source. The deal is pending the results of a physical and intake testing. The club has not announced the agreement. Lamb totaled 59 homers and produced an .843 OPS for the D-backs over the 2016 and 2017 seasons. But the 30-year-old corner infielder has battled multiple injuries over the past three seasons.   Continue reading this story...

Coffee County Central High School’s Lady Raider softball team will host an intra-squad scrimmage on Saturday, Feb. 27, with all proceeds from the day going to benefit the “Dream for Weave Foundation.” With the opening day of the season just around the corner, the Lady Raiders are hard at work preparing for the 2021 softball season. On Saturday, Feb. 27, the ladies will get together for an intra-squad scrimmage and the general public is encouraged and welcome to attend (attendance capacity is 125). First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. There will be a gate charge and concessions, with...

Two goals in the first 45 seconds of the third period usually does the trick.  That outburst, featuring one of Calle Jarnkrok‘s two goals, helped the Nashville Predators to a 4-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night at Nationwide Arena. The result snaps Nashville’s two-game skid and gives them their seventh win of the season – and in arguably their best effort too. The Preds outshot the Jackets by a 45-23 count – a season-high shot total for Nashville – and Pekka Rinne made 21 saves to collect his fourth victory of the campaign.  Nashville didn’t get the result...

The one thing for sure about the District 8-AAA basketball tournament is this – the Central High School Red Raiders and Lady Raiders will not be playing Thursday and Friday as originally planned. But when they will play is still up in the air. With the Raider boys placing second and the Lady Raiders placing first, both teams received a bye into the semi-final round of the district tournament. However, the quarterfinals have been pushed back to Friday, meaning it will be at least Saturday before semi-final games can be played. When dates are set, Thunder Radio will keep...

The Braves won their arbitration decision involving shortstop Dansby Swanson, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. Swanson will earn a $6 million salary in 2021 after he had filed for $6.7 million. This was Swanson’s second year of arbitration eligibility. The 27-year-old is coming off a solid campaign for the Braves that saw him post a career-best slugging percentage (.464) and OPS (.809), while knocking 10 homers and helping Atlanta get to within one game of the World Series. Swanson received one 10th-place nod in the 2020 National League MVP Award vote. Swanson, the first overall selection in the 2015...

 Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the team has assigned defenseman Frederic Allard to Chicago (AHL). Allard, 23 (12/27/97), spent the beginning of the 2020-21 season on loan with Villacher SV of the ICE Hockey League, Austria’s top professional league. The 6-foot-1, 179-pound blueliner posted four goals and 13 points – the third-most among team defensemen – in 25 games for Villacher to kick off his fourth professional campaign. Last season, he finished fourth among Milwaukee (AHL) defensemen in points (21) and assists (19) and tied for fourth in goals (2), helping the...