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Ghana President John Dramani Mahama, (right) and Hanna. S. Tetteh, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and member of Parliament answer questions from the media after the program. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

Ghana president visits Kennesaw State University

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama addressed students, faculty and staff at Kennesaw State University Monday, the first such visit by a sitting head of state in the school’s 50-year history. Before an audience of 600 at KSU’s Bailey and Family Performance Center, Mahama said economic and political conditions are improving ...

Kennesaw State examining ways to to help students get football tickets

Kennesaw State has a problem that its department of mathematics and statistics can’t solve.Its football team, whose first game should take place 2015, will play in a stadium that seats 8,300. The university has more than 24,000 students.There may be a lot of students whose fees were increased by $100 ...

Kennesaw State: Big South a fit

Calling it a move that made sense, Kennesaw State announced Wednesday that it accepted an invitation to join the Big South Conference as a football-playing member.“The Big South was a fit from everything they do, where they have been, what they were doing in football,” athletic director Vaughn Williams said.Williams ...

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, which ...

July 23, 2013 - Cobb County - Southbound traffic on I75 as seen from Allgood Road, south of the I575 merge.  Morning commute traffic on I75 in Cobb County.  State transportation officials on Tuesday will select the leading contractor to design and build the largest transportation project in state history, 30 miles of optional toll lanes on I-75/I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties that are estimated to cost up to a billion dollars.      BOB ANDRES  / BANDRES@AJC.COM

Public skeptical of optional toll lanes on I-75/I-575

In just a few months, a final contract will be signed to build the most expensive road construction project in state history — $840 million optional toll lanes on I-75/I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties. But for a project with so much impact for a corridor that carries some 200,000 ...

“Lucky” shot helps Beck to Georgia Amateur golf title

Jimmy Beck turned a potential disaster into a Georgia Amateur championship. The Kennesaw State junior was dangerously close to the white out-of-bounds stakes with his tee shot on his 15th hole — the sixth hole at Pinetree Country Club. Although he was safely in play, he remained 209 yards away ...

Kennesaw State football moving forward

Brian Bohannon stood in front of more than 150 high school football players Friday and said, without the slightest bit of self-importance, “Today, you are part of history.” Though they won’t sign their first recruits until February or play their first game until August 2015 at the earliest, Bohannon’s fledgling ...

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

Janas fulfills dream by signing with Braves

Kennesaw State pitcher Stephen Janas, who grew up in Marietta hoping one day to become the next Greg Maddux, had one fantasy fulfilled when he was selected by the Braves in the sixth round of last week’s amateur baseball draft. Janas completed another when he signed with the Braves on ...

Three new teams speak at Pigskin Preview

The Peach State Pigskin Preview welcomed three new faces of upstart college football programs Tuesday.Mercer and Reinhardt begin playing football in the coming season, while Kennesaw State is slated to play its first game in 2015.Mercer and Reinhardt open against each other Aug. 31 in Macon.Georgia State, which is entering ...

Regents working to clarify colleges’ missions

For the first time in nearly two decades, the University System of Georgia will clearly define the role of all 31 colleges so that everyone understands what programs each school should teach and whom they enroll. The proposal, which will be voted on in August, will drive decisions on everything ...

Kennesaw State pitcher Stephen Janas, who has an 0.75 ERA and is on pace to have one of the best seasons in the history of the school and the Atlantic Sun conference.

Janas on the mark for Kennesaw State baseball

Stephen Janas shrugs and laughs when asked if he can explain his 0.75 ERA for Kennesaw State’s baseball team this season. “(It) is a little ridiculous,” he said. “I’ve never pitched that well.” Though college baseball has attempted to rein in its softball-like numbers with the change in bats, Janas’ ...

Kennesaw State tops Georgia State in baseball

Georgia State wasted most of its scoring chances while Kennesaw State took advantage of enough of its own to scratch out a 6-5 win on Wednesday at Panthersville. The Panthers stranded eight runners and hit into three momentum-killing double plays, including one with the bases loaded in the second inning. ...

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.

Brian Bohannon: Born to coach

When Brian Bohannon was in seventh grade, he filled out a report detailing who he wanted to be, what he liked to do and what he wanted to be.The answers: winner, football and coach.It seems Brian Bohannon was born to be a coach.His dream was fulfilled in late March when ...

Bohannon makes first hires at Kennesaw State

Kennesaw State football coach Brian Bohannon has begun to fill his staff with his first three hires. Grant Chesnut, head coach at Central-Carroll High School, will be offensive coordinator and coach the offensive line. He will start Monday. “We see things the same way as far as what we want ...

KSU’s Bohannon wants players to ‘win the day’

Leave it to traffic in Atlanta to help Kennesaw State find its first football coach. Brian Bohannon was driving from his home in Woodstock to his job as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech when he cut through Kennesaw State’s campus several years ago looking for a shortcut to Barrett ...

Brian Bohannon was coach of the quarterbacks for Georgia Tech. In this photo taken Aug. 6, 2010, he gives instructions to Anthony Allen during Georgia Tech football practice.

KSU selects Tech’s Bohannon as first football coach

Brian Bohannon has been named Kennesaw State’s first football coach. Bohannon, who played at Georgia, has been an assistant coach in charge of quarterbacks and B-backs at Georgia Tech since 2008. Bohannon will be introduced at a press conference at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The Owls are expected to play ...

Brian Bohannon is the quarterbacks and B-backs coach at Georgia Tech.

Two GT assistants among finalists for KSU job

Kennesaw State has interviewed at least three finalists for its head football coach position, including Georgia Tech assistants Brian Bohannon and Andy McCollum, according to a person familiar with the situation. Athletic director Vaughn Williams declined to comment on the candidates, other than to say that “he feels very good ...

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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.