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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 ...
Dogs overcome injuries and own defense in win
I’ll post my full column off of Georgia’s narrow escape -- a 34-31 overtime win over Tennessee, later on MyAJC.com. Until then, here are my three "Short Takes on the game. 1. GEORGIA'S PROBLEM ISN'T RESOLVE, IT'S LIGAMENTS: The Bulldogs' offense finished the game effectively without its top two running ...
Mike Minor gives Braves ace-like start they needed
There are several questions that the manager of a division-winning baseball team generally faces in the days leading up to the first playoff game. But this isn’t usually one of them: Who’s you ace? Even if it’s not mandatory for a team to have a clear pecking order in the ...
Braves in Game 1: No hit, no field, no chance
Well. That wasn’t very pretty, was it? The Braves, looking too much like the team that has lost in so many previous Octobers, lost their divisional playoff opener to the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1 Thursday night. Here’s a link to my column on MyAJC.com. And here are my three “Short ...
Braves look like typical October selves
It was 2-0 after the second inning. It was 4-0 after the third, 5-0 after the fourth and really, after that, there wasn’t much reason to pay attention. It was like watching a punch-drunk boxer just standing in the corner, getting clubbed, waiting for the round to end.Ding. Must be ...
Predictions: Dogs win, Kiffin down, Spurrier up (barely)
Something happened this week that was almost as funny as when USC athletic director Pat Haden stopped Lane Kiffin on an airport tarmac and broke the news to him. Haden: “There was a mistake on your plane ticket.” Kiffin: “What?” Haden: “It says ‘Coach’! Hahahaha. Get it?” Yes, even more ...
UPDATE: Braves leave Uggla off playoff roster
So it's official: The Braves have left their $13 million second baseman off their playoff roster. And who in spring training didn't expect that Elliott Johnson and Paul Janish would be the team's two second basemen in the playoffs? Dan Uggla is not among the 25 players the Braves can ...
Falcons’ Dimitroff, Smith defend moves, remain confident
The Falcons are 1-3. It’s not necessarily a season-defining start but when a season stretches only 16 games, 1-3 is significant enough to create angst and anger among fans, doom and gloom in the media and second-guessing of every personnel decision made over the previous offseason. Which leads to Thomas ...
Credit Fredi Gonzalez for navigating through mess
It’s understandable why so many Braves fans would have a fatalistic view of Octobers. When a franchise wins one World Series in 48 years, despite a long run of division dominance and a line of inevitable Hall of Famers on the pitching mound, belief is going to fray around the ...
Expect Georgia to rise vs. BCS field
The new Associated Press (media) and USA Today (coaches) rankings are out and Georgia has moved up to sixth in both of them. The first BCS standings come out in about two weeks. But with the same five teams currently ahead of Georgia in the two major polls, it’s safe ...
Aaron Murray is reason Georgia in title picture
Georgia officially announced its candidacy for the national title Saturday, and there should be no confusion how this team got here. It’s not because they were lobbed some puffball of an early schedule (then-No. 8 Clemson, then-No. 6 South Carolina, Saturday’s No. 6 LSU among the first four opponents). It’s ...
Short Takes: Georgia Tech falls off stage
With a chance to turn this season into something special, Georgia Tech fell flat on its face Thursday night, losing to Virginia Tech 17-10. Some of the ugly numbers: three turnovers, three fumbles (one lost), six false start penalties and only one touchdown in 11 offensive possessions. The Hokies’ defense ...
Georgia Tech blows chance to get some attention
It’s not difficult to remember the biggest Georgia Tech win over Virginia Tech, and not just because there haven’t been that many. It came in 2009. Paul Johnson was in only his second season on The Flats, and fans were basking in the afterglow of that first-year, assault-on-the-hedges and win ...
Predictions: Dogs win, Falcons lose, bear leaves
If only this story had started out something like, “So a drunk underage frat boy walks into a bar in Juneau,” everything would’ve been fine. Because as we now know, you can’t just walk into a bar in Juneau like you can in Valdosta and Remerton, the apparent Sodom and ...
Mettenberger dismissal signaled Richt turnaround
It has been well-chronicled that Zach Mettenberger did something dumb three years ago. He used one of his two fake IDs to get drunk in a college town (so far, he blends) and then, presumably in his own unique manner of introduction, excessively groped a strange female in a bar ...
NCAA fails again by softening Penn State penalty
The NCAA blew it. Again. Last year, the NCAA chose not to give the Penn State football program the "death penalty," despite determining that the administration "concealed critical facts" -- translation: covered up -- related to the deviant and reprehensible actions of eventual convicted sex offender Jerry Sandusky, the team's ...
Braves' celebration a long time coming
Remember when the Braves winning division titles was so yesterday? Well, when they clinched the National League East Sunday, it had been several yesterdays ago. Try eight years worth: The Braves hadn’t won a division title since 2005. It had been that long since the Braves could go into the ...
Georgia not impressive, but it doesn’t really matter
It wasn’t the day to impress fans, many of whom booed. It wasn’t the day to impress poll voters. There probably were even a few off-duty BCS-contributing computers, kicking back on a rainy Saturday, pondering the data — kickoff returned for a touchdown; punt blocked for a touchdown; two turnovers; ...
Short Takes: Georgia's tune-up for LSU not so great
ATHENS – Well, that certainly was ugly. Georgia, hoping for an easy tune-up before next week’s SEC collision against No. 6 LSU, struggled against an expected punching bag, North Texas, in Sanford Stadium Saturday. The Dogs led only 21-14 at halftime and found themselves tied 21-21 after having a punt ...
Bar is high, but ex-Brave’s umpire feud topped all
The umpire-manager argument is unique in baseball. Similar verbal wars in other sports don’t measure up because only in baseball do we see elderly men in full uniform waddle out of dugouts and charge after authority figures with such fury that you would think Denny’s had just dropped its senior-citizen ...
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