WE’RE GOING TO AN ELLA LANGLEY CONCERT ON THE 18TH AND WE’RE EVEN GOING TO MEET HER!!!!

Falcons acquiring Grayson grad Wanya Morris from Chiefs for OT help gwinnettdailypost.com/fieldl…

The best discovery of our road trip has been a musician called Ella Langley. We had never heard of her before, but after hearing her on pretty much every country radio station, we’ve become big fans. She’s basically the soundtrack of our trip.

Talked with a dozen HCs today about the Brendan Sorsby news. They're angry, confused and disillusioned. "Unbelievable." "F---ing crazy" "Egregious." "One of the worst things I’ve seen in 20 years of coaching.” Free story: nytimes.com/athletic/7342333…

Big 12 ADs tell @YahooSports they’ve had “serious” talks on not playing Texas Tech. One SEC AD says there should be conversations about not playing Tech “in any sports.” The Brendan Sorsby ruling has left an industry jarred. “It’s total f***** bullshit.” bit.ly/4uWicN7

82 years ago today, nearly 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, launching the liberation of Europe. We are free because they were brave. 🇺🇸

On June 6, 1944, the Germans knew one thing for certain: to invade France, the Allies needed a port. So they fortified every port on the French coast. Cherbourg. Calais. Boulogne. Turned them into fortresses. Poured millions of tons of concrete into the Atlantic Wall. The Allies simply decided to bring their own port with them. This is the story of the Mulberry Harbours, and it might be the single most audacious engineering feat in military history. The problem was simple and brutal. You cannot sustain an invasion army of millions of men on landing craft alone. You need docks. Cranes. Piers. The infrastructure to pour supplies ashore by the thousands of tons every single day. Without a working port, any beachhead would eventually starve and collapse. The Germans knew this. Their entire coastal defense strategy was built on it. What they never imagined was that the Allies would build two fully functioning deep-water harbors in Britain, dismantle them into pieces, tow them across the English Channel, and reassemble them off the beaches of Normandy. Starting in December 1943, 37,000 workers across Britain began secretly manufacturing the components. The project was so large it strained the entire British economy. 146 massive concrete caissons called Phoenixes, each one 60 metres long and 18 metres tall. Miles of floating steel roadways. Pontoon bridges. Breakwaters. Pier heads. Enough material to build a small city. They built dry docks in the Thames and Clyde rivers just to construct the caissons. 1.5 million yards of steel shuttering. 31,000 tons of steel. Workers had no idea what they were building or why. When D-Day came, tugboats began towing the pieces across the Channel at just 8 kilometres per hour. Hundreds of individual components, each one a logistical nightmare to move, crossing open water in the wake of the largest invasion fleet ever assembled. Within 12 days, two working harbours stood off the Normandy coast. Mulberry A at Omaha Beach for the Americans. Mulberry B at Arromanches for the British and Canadians. Then, on June 19, the worst storm to hit the Normandy coast in 40 years tore through the Channel. For three days the storm raged. When it cleared, Mulberry A at Omaha was gone. 21 of 28 caissons completely destroyed. The piers smashed. The roadways scattered. The Americans scrapped it entirely and cannibalized the wreckage to repair the British harbor. Mulberry B at Arromanches survived, barely, because of its slightly more sheltered position. That one surviving harbor then proceeded to supply the entire Allied liberation of Western Europe. 2.5 million men. 500,000 vehicles. 4 million tons of supplies. All landed through an artificial harbor that was designed, built, floated, towed across the Channel, and assembled in secret, in less than six months. After the war, Nazi armaments minister Albert Speer put it plainly. Germany had spent 13 million cubic tonnes of concrete and 1.5 million tons of steel building the Atlantic Wall to deny the Allies a port. "A fortnight after the landings," Speer said, "this costly effort was brought to nought by an idea of simple genius." They built their own port. And they brought it with them.

THE NO. 1 TEAM IN THE COUNTRY STANDS ALONE ☝️🏆 For the second time in three years, the Auburn Tigers are NCAA Champions! #WarEagle

2026 Gwinnett Daily Post All-County Girls Lacrosse gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

GIRLS LACROSSE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Mill Creek's Alexis Eichenberger gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

Archer grad D.J. Taylor rises to youngest coordinator in Division I football gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

Peachtree Ridge grad Baillie Burmaster wins Emmy for Atlanta News First production @baillie_burm @ATLNewsFirst gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

'This is our life': Harding-bound Thom Jacquet appreciative of 35 years at GAC @gac_athletics gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

PHOTOS: Wesleyan Defeats Holy Innocents' for Private State Baseball Title @wesleyanwolves gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died at 59 from cancer. “Rob’s music, energy, and legacy helped shape a generation and brought joy to millions around the world. Beyond the stage, he was a loving father, family man, friend, and creative force whose impact will never be forgotten,” reads a statement on his social media account. “Thank you for the music, the memories, and the moments that became the soundtrack to our lives.” variety.com/2026/music/news/…

Gwinnett Goal Club celebrates best in 2026 high school soccer gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

Dacula native Lauren Hollifield signs with Auburn gymnastics gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

PHOTOS: Gwinnett Goal Club Honors Best in High School Soccer gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

Gwinnett Dugout Club celebrates county's best in 2026 high school baseball gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…

PHOTOS: Gwinnett Dugout Club Honors Best in Gwinnett High School Baseball gwinnettdailypost.com/sports…