ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium will host the first college football national championship game under an expanded playoff format in 2025, the College Football Playoff’s Board of Managers announced Thursday.
Georgia's governor has high hopes for his alma mater. Atlanta is set to become the first two-time host of college football's national championship game in 2025. Gov. Brian Kemp sees no reason the Georgia Bulldogs can't be going for their fourth straight title when the game returns to the ATL.
Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, were left out.
U.S. cities and states have lined up with tax breaks and millions of dollars in both public and private investments for a chance at hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup. U.S. host cities are set to be announced Thursday.
Maroon 5 and Usher will headline a benefit concert in Atlanta to honor the legacy of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The Grammy Award-winning pop band and singer will perform during the Beloved Benefit at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 7, concert officials announced Thursday.
In their sixth season of Major League Soccer, the Five Stripes bring some new faces onto the field this year. The Athletic's Felipe Cárdenas joined Georgia Public Broadcasting's Orlando Montoya to help breakdown what fans can expect this year on and off the field.
Mercedes-Benz Stadium: home to the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United and, for a few weeks this summer, hip-hop icon Kanye West? The megastar staged a listening party for his upcoming album at the stadium. And then he moved in for a couple of weeks. And that’s not all. Steve Fennessy chats with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein about what Bluestein's investigation into the logistics of West's stay at Mercedes-Benz Stadium turned up.
The Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta is exempt from property taxes. A group of Fulton County taxpayers sued the Fulton Board of Tax Assessors in 2017, the year the new home of the Atlanta Falcons opened.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Friday a mass vaccination site for COVID-19 is coming to Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The site has capacity to give 6,000 vaccine shots each day.
Rising Up: A Westside Story documents the construction of Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Arthur Blank's family foundation's efforts at aiding the longtime community surrounding the new Atlanta landmark.
The Georgia Water Coalition is celebrating individuals and groups that are working to keep the state’s waterways clean with its annual “Clean 13” list.
High school football state championship games have a new home. All eight games this winter will be played at Georgia State Stadium, which used to be...