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How Georgia bottled No. 1 Tennessee’s top-ranked offense
The No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs dominated the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday, taking down the nation's top team 27-13. → Read More
Schultz: Introducing The Athletic’s inaugural Atlanta Hall of Fame – The Athletic
Who are the 25-ish individuals (plus honorable mention selections) in the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame? Jeff Schultz makes his picks. → Read More
Schultz’s Weekend Predictions: Best Falcons news is they’re not in Tennessee or Antonio Brown hell – The Athletic
Football fans across the country rejoice in not cheering for the Tennessee Vols or Oakland Raiders. → Read More
Schultz: Tiger Woods’ comeback Masters will go down as one of sports’ greatest moments – The Athletic
Tiger Woods put on a show and took the golf world into a time warp with his fifth win at Augusta National Golf Club. → Read More
Schultz: If Hunter can win at Georgia State, why can’t Tech, UGA do same? – The Athletic
Ron Hunter has built a consistent winner and the state's best program at Georgia State. → Read More
Braves also have a Julio question: Is Teheran about to prove his worth?
So about Julio and his contract. Not that Julio, the other one. → Read More
2018 NFL OWNERS MEETINGS IN ATLANTA: Falcons' Arthur Blank says owners, players working to resolve National Anthem protests
Arthur Blank said owners spent “probably an hour and a half” Tuesday discussing the issue of how to deal with players who choose to kneel for the national anthem. → Read More
Kirby Smart has made even a dull spring game at Georgia a big deal
It wasnt a real game. It was G-Day. → Read More
Kirby Smart has made even a dull spring game at Georgia a big deal
ATHENS — Five months after its last home game in Athens (Kentucky, flattened), four months after its first SEC championship in 12 years (Auburn, smothered), three months after the pass-thepaperbags-we’re-hyperventilating carnival ride through the college football playoffs (Oklahoma, tipped. Alabama … DAMN’T!), → Read More
Meet Tom Crean, Georgia’s new basketball coach and blow torch
ATHENS —He spoke for 27 minutes before he took a question -- or, seemingly, a breath.He spoke in capital letters. With exclamation points. Fists pounding. Fingers pointing. Sparks flying off the top of his well-tanned head. It would’ve ranked as one of the greatest pre-game speeches of all times if it wasn’t just an → Read More
Is Thad Matta really interested in Georgia job or is this for show?
Georgia is at least giving the appearance that it is aiming high in its search for a college basketball coach. Thad Matta and Tom Crean, two longtime and proven coaches currently out of work, have been named as candidates, and Matta was scheduled to interview on Monday, according to Seth Emerson and Chip Towers of → Read More
CHIPPER JONES ASSAULT RIFLES: Atlanta Braves legend weighs in on gun debate, says no need for civilians to own assault rifles
Chipper Jones believes the AR-15 and all similar assault weapons should be banned from public sale to civilians. → Read More
Poll: Would Georgia have better chance against Alabama or Auburn?
Hello, Georgia. Welcome to your nightmare. Former coach Mark Richt, honorably discharged from Athens two years ago, has led Miami to a 9-0 record and the Hurricanes could be ranked No. 2 when the new college football playoff rankings come out Tuesday night. → Read More
Bulldogs doing something Falcons aren’t: handling expectations
A college football team in town is having a season in which seemingly everything is going right. A pro football team in town is having a season in which seemingly everything lately is going wrong Georgia is 9-0 and ranked No. 1. The Falcons are 4-4 and spiraling toward irrelevancy. → Read More
Weekend Predictions: Bulldogs avoid gravity storm, but spread is too fat
Before we get to this week's financial forecast, which is only slightly flawed when we assume the natural order of things like Florida State not losing to Boston College 35-3 -- but forgive Jimbo Fisher because B.C. → Read More
It’s Georgia, Alabama on top, and college playoff could be an SEC party
There was a recurring skit in the old television show, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” known as, “The Argument Sketch,” in which people could walk into an office and pay for an argument. → Read More
Georgia exorcises demons, dumps Florida and will soon be No. 2
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The game formerly known as a cocktail party morphed into something else Saturday. More like the world’s largest exorcism (cocktails optional). → Read More
Vince Dooley sees another championship in Georgia’s future
ATHENS – There’s a large table in the home and relative museum of former Georgia coach and Civil War historian Vince Dooley that dates to the 1850s and was used by the cabinet of the Confederacy for the signing of its constitution. → Read More
Falcons get drilled, problems far worse than Super Bowl hangover
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – At least one thing was settled Sunday night. It's not as simple as the Falcons having a Super Bowl hangover. Hangovers don’t last this long, or look this bad, no matter how devastating a loss it was last February. → Read More
Weekend Predictions: Because it makes no sense, Falcons beat Pats
Hello and welcome back to Weekend Predictions, where we always stand for the national anthem, but we're big on the First Amendment, which is so important that it's FIRST(!), and we're thankful for not living in the Cobb County district of Sheriff Neil Warren and state Rep(rehensible) Earl Earhar... → Read More