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In recent history, Notre Dame has nothing on Bulldogs
A regular-season meeting between Notre Dame and a representative of the SEC is about as rare as peace in our time. It just doesn’t happen. Since 2010, when Brian Kelly assumed coaching and editorial control over the myth of Fighting Irish football, Notre Dame has met Alabama and LSU in the pos... → Read More
Kuchar the next Tech golfer to win British Open – until Spieth goes nuts
Jordan Spieth has just won his third different major title four days before his 24th birthday, the kind of accomplishment that once again puts him in elite company. He keeps hobnobbing with the swells of the game, pretty soon we’re going to start believing he might actually belong with them. → Read More
Will Atlanta United miss Bobby Dodd when it leaves?
At the halfway point of its inaugural season, Atlanta United FC (translation: Soccer team) got itself a meaningful victory Saturday at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium in the same manner the home team always does it here: Relying heavily on the running game. → Read More
Frenchy Connection II: Francoeur gets a different Braves gig
One more time: Jeff Francoeur is coming back to the Braves. Only now the Braves' No. 1 draft pick of 2002 will be talking baseball rather than playing it, joining the home team’s broadcast lineup on an occasional basis. → Read More
New stadium smell wearing off quickly for Braves
After two homestands, the Braves find themselves lagging in two important categories – victories and home attendance. There just may be a connection. → Read More
Tiger survives four days of golf – that’s progress
I know there’s one big question you have after what went down in the Bahamas this weekend. You try to extrapolate what one otherwise meaningless golf exhibition might mean in four months when things get real in Augusta, and wonder: Hmmm, can Hideki Matsuyama... → Read More
Georgia Dome the house that Alabama (partially) built
It is fitting that in the final SEC Championship game to be played in the Georgia Dome that Alabama and Florida are giving the farewell performance. Between them, they have been part of 12 of the 23 conference championships played in the doomed dome scheduled to die before its time. → Read More
Cinks’ strategy for battling cancer: ‘Remain grateful every day’
When Stewart Cink arrived at the course here last Tuesday afternoon, later than most competing in the RSM Classic, the casual witness might have assumed he was just coming off his second major championship. → Read More
Kickers at the fore for Georgia and Tech
As main characters to the violent drama of football, kickers don’t make for the greatest action heroes. → Read More
Berenato back near familiar ground, at Kennesaw State
You may have heard that Agnus Berenato is back in town, the one-time, long-time women’s basketball coach at Georgia Tech taking the job at Kennesaw State. → Read More
Auburn’s vaunted line takes aim at Eason
It should come as no surprise that the deep and disturbing defensive line that Auburn brings to Athens on Saturday contains nearly as many Georgians with an attitude as the home team’s. → Read More
Georgia kicker lends some needed lightness to season
When a bit of fun breaks out in college football, man, you’ve got to grab it with two hands and wring out every last guffaw and chortle possible. Otherwise, the grim clichés and the social-media trolls win. And the whole exercise becomes a joyless struggle for field position. → Read More
Oh, the horror: Howard vs. free throw demons
The greatest fright of the Halloween just gone by? My nomination is the sight of a near 7-foot man of impressive build, dressed in some very elaborate underwear, shooting free throws in Philips Arena. → Read More
Howard’s Atlanta debut earns nothing but huzzahs
Dwight Howard’s first real night in a Hawks uniform had no shortage of 6-foot-11 high points. → Read More
Bama keeps winning, with Atlanta in mind
Being the head of all appointment college football in Atlanta, it behooved Gary Stokan to show up here Saturday for Alabama’s latest show of force. → Read More
Talladega located at intersection of skill and luck
One second, you’re driving along at 190 mph. → Read More
Tech gets past a dangerous game (really)
For much of college football’s upper crust, playing Georgia Southern is an unsettling proposition. → Read More
Former UGA baseball coach re-inventing himself at his old high...
ATHENS — One way or another, David Perno’s story was going to get told in this good Georgia town. → Read More
Arnie’s Army includes everyone today
We are all conscripts today in Arnie’s Army. No matter if you never had the pleasure of seeing the young Arnold Palmer – the one who invented the black-and-white version of golf on television, I believe – walk an Augusta National fairway like he owned it. → Read More
Tour Championship tightens up for final round
Gentlemen, start your scenarios. → Read More