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Kennesaw State's stadium seats 8,300.

Kennesaw State examining ways to to help students get football tickets

Kennesaw State is examining potential solutions on how to help a student body of more than 24,000 attend football games at a stadium that seats 8,300. A membership group that includes students is scheduled to meet on Friday to example possible scenarios. The football team is scheduled to begin play ...

Help Kennesaw State name its owl

Give a hoot and help Kennesaw State name its owl mascot. The university has launched a contest to name the school’s new live mascot, which will be unveiled on Oct. 19 at the Convocation Center. The event, dubbed “Flight Night,” will begin at 7:15 p.m. The contest will run through ...

Kennesaw State unveils helmet

Kennesaw State unveiled its new football helmet on Friday after a contest in which the fans were able to select from three options.The winner, receiving 60 percent of almost 10,000 responses, is a gold helmet with an interlocking KS logo, custom black stripe down the middle and black facemask. The ...

Kennesaw State football will make its debut on the field in 2015.

Kennesaw State joining Big South for football

Kennesaw State has accepted an invitation to join the Big South Conference, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The Owls are joining as a football-only associate member for the 2015 season, the first year they will play the sport. Kennesaw State will remain in the Atlantic Sun, ...

Kennesaw State unveils men’s basketball schedule

The Kennesaw State men’s basketball team will play Georgia Tech, Indiana, Mississippi State, Cincinnati, Florida International and conference-foe Florida Gulf Coast, which made the Sweet 16 in last season’s NCAA tournament, in the coming season as part of a challenging schedule, which was released Wednesday. The Owls, under coach Lewis ...

Two of the choices for Kennesaw State's football helmet sit on coach Brian Bohannon's desk.

Kennesaw State giving fans a chance to choose helmet

Kennesaw State is giving fans an opportunity to help decide which helmet its football team will use. Fans can go online at ksuowls.com/FBhelmet and choose between one of three helmets: A black helmet with the primary logo and a gold stripe and black facemask; A gold helmet with the “KS” ...

Coach Brian Bohannon will lead the Kennesaw State football team when they open play in 2015.

Kennesaw State hits football ticket sales milestone

Kennesaw State University officials say they've reached a milestone for football ticket sales since the school announced it was launching an NCAA Division I program earlier this year. Spokesman Al Barba says Kennesaw State University has sold more than 1,000 season ticket deposits for the school's inaugural 2015 season at ...

Kennesaw State’s challenging basketball schedule again includes Georgia Tech

Kennesaw State’s men’s basketball team is putting together a challenging non-conference schedule.Coach Lewis Preston has games lined up against Georgia Tech, which the Owls famously defeated 80-63 three years ago, Indiana, Kent State, Cincinnati, Mississippi State and Florida International. Not all of the contracts are finalized so some of the ...

Lewis Preston is entering his third season as Kennesaw State coach.

Kennesaw’s non-conference hoops includes game at Tech

Kennesaw State’s men’s basketball team is putting together a challenging non-conference schedule. Coach Lewis Preston has games lined up against Georgia Tech, which the Owls famously defeated 80-63 three years ago, Indiana, Kent State, Cincinnati, Mississippi State and Florida International. Not all of the contracts aren’t finalized so some of ...

Kennesaw State unveils football ticket info

Kennesaw State is offering season tickets for football at $99 per season for the program’s first three years. To be eligible, a $20 refundable per-seat deposit is required along with a completed letter of intent that will make you a part of the Priority Seating Program. The deposit doesn’t guarantee ...

Kennesaw picks up third commitment

Kennesaw State picked up its third commitment in less than a week – and its first from Cobb County – from Kell’s Taylor Henkle.“Kennesaw is where I need to go and where I want to go,” he said.Henkle is a 5-11, 185-pound safety. He said he was receiving interest from ...

KSU picks up second commitment

A.J. Howard committed to Kennesaw State on Saturday, according to the web site www.ksuowlhowl.com.Howard, a 5-11, 180-pound cornerback from Harris County High School, is the second player to commit to coach Brian Bohannon this week. South Paulding’s Chandler Burks was the program’s first commitment for the Class of 2014. The ...

Chandler Burks (3), 5-10, 170 pounds, has played quarterback, wide receiver, defensive back, punt returner and kick returner.

Kennesaw State picks up first football commitment

South Paulding’s Chandler Burks became Kennesaw State’s first commitment in football earlier this morning. He said he is more than happy to be the pioneer for coach Brian Bohannon, who was hired earlier this year to lead the start-up program. The first game will be 2015. “You have to start ...

Bohannon hires DC at Kennesaw

Brian Newberry has agreed to join Brian Bohannon’s staff at Kennesaw State as defensive coordinator. Newberry spent the past season at Northern Michigan, which plays football on the Division II level. He spent the previous season at Sewanee, where he was defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. Before that, he was ...

Steve Janas, a right-handed pitcher at Kennesaw State was selected 193rd overall by the Atlanta Braves.

Players with Georgia ties selected in baseball draft

Pick, Name, School, Pos., B/T, Drafted by 5. Clint Frazier, Loganville High, OF, R/R, Cleveland Indians 9. Austin Meadows, Grayson High, Loganville, CF, L/L, Pittsburgh Pirates 30. Travis Demeritte, Winder-Barrow High, SS, R/R, Texas Rangers 37. Josh Hart, Parkview High, CF, L/L, Baltimore Orioles 74. Kent Emanuel, North Carolina, Woodstock ...

Artist’s rendering of the College Football Hall of Fame, which will be built on Marietta Street.

College Football Hall of Fame starts brick sales

The College Football Hall of Fame, under construction in downtown Atlanta, Thursday announced the start of a campaign to sell commemorative bricks that will be placed inside and outside the facility. College-football fans can purchase the bricks, engraved with a name and a message, for prices ranging from $100 to ...

Bohannon hires Gilliland to coach KSU’s QBs and B-backs

Kennesaw State football coach Brian Bohannon has hired Brett Gilliland to be quarterbacks and B-backs coach. Gilliland has spent the previous three seasons at Georgia Southern, where he worked with the B-backs in 2010, tight ends and tackles in 2011 and wide receivers last year. Gilliland spent three years as ...

Kennesaw State signs Coleman

Orlando Coleman signed a national letter of intent to play at Kennesaw State on Friday.Coleman, a 6-5 combo guard/forward, averaged 18.7 points and 11.6 rebounds per game last year at Alabama Southern Community College. He scored at least 30 points six times last year and had 19 double-doubles.He is the ...

New head football coach Brian Bohannon (center) is presented with a Kennesaw State jersey by director of athletics Vaughn Williams (left) and president Daniel S. Papp.

Bohannon makes two more hires

Kennesaw State football coach Brian Bohannon has added two more members to his staff. Tim Glanton, formerly head coach at South Paulding since 2006, has agreed to join as an assistant coach and Jay Bailey, formerly equipment manager at Georgia State, has agreed to join as director of football operations. ...

Georgia golfer Nicholas Reach helped the Bulldogs to a fourth place finish at the SEC championships.

Georgia college golf well represented at NCAAs

Four teams from Georgia and five other individual players were invited to regionals in the NCAA men’s golf championship, which will be played May 28-June 2 at the Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course in Milton. Eighty-one teams and 45 individuals were selected on Monday night to compete in the six ...

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Freshman J.J. Green comes through for Georgia

Tailback J.J. Green said he can’t say for sure how many times he has heard “you’re one play away from playing” from Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo and running backs coach Bryan McClendon.

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Dogs have resolve but they’re running out of bodies

If nothing else, Georgia has ensured at least one thing about its season. Regardless of where the rest of the schedule takes them, whether its to an SEC championship, a BCS bowl bid or a national title, there will be no claims from outsiders that this team received too many breaks and escaped health issues, no suggestions that the road to success was lined with lollipops and unicorns.

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A better Georgia Tech yields only an emphatic loss

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Mississippian Crowder kickstarts Georgia soccer

Having been at Georgia four seasons now, soccer coach Steve Holeman doesn’t weird out nearly as much as he once did about playing Ole Miss, where he coached for 15 years.