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With the UGA offense ailing, the burden's on the D
With five games gone, Georgia has lost its best wide receiver, its fastest wide receiver and its second-best tailback for the season to knee injuries. Its best tailback -- the best in the nation, actually -- just missed a game with a sprained ankle and isn't a certainty to play ...
Georgia Tech ran the option better, and still it lost
These short takes from Georgia Tech’s 45-30 loss at Miami are presented as an adjunct to the game column, which can be found on myajc.com, our premium site. 1. At the start, Georgia Tech ran the option pretty much as Paul Johnson designed it. The Yellow Jackets rushed for 151 ...
A better Georgia Tech yields only an emphatic loss
Georgia Tech got the start it wanted and, at least for a little while, ran the option the way Paul Johnson wants it run. The Yellow Jackets led the nation’s No. 14 team 17-7 and were poised to make the score 24-7, whereupon this game went the way of too ...
Breaking down the Braves' vital Game 2 win
These short takes are an adjunct to the column off Game 2 of the Braves-Dodgers series -- the Braves won 4-3, in case you haven't heard -- that is available on myajc.com, our premium site. 1. Mike Minor took a giant step forward. Working his first playoff game, the Braves' ...
Mike Minor wins a Game 2 of major importance
If he wants to be known as more than a good young pitcher, the postseason is the hurdle every good young pitcher must surmount. It was that way for Ford and Koufax, for Gibson and Hershiser, for Glavine and Maddux and Smoltz. Before Thursday, it was that way for the ...
The Braves had a chance against Kershaw, but they whiffed
This will sound weird, but the Atlanta Braves missed a real chance Thursday night. Yes, they were matched against the best pitcher in baseball and yes, they were outscored 6-1 and outhit 11-5 and out-fielded all ends up. Still, Game 1 could have been a real game, as opposed to ...
Trouble in paradise? Bama puts assistant on leave
On Wednesday, Alabama suspended All-American safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix for an unspecified period for an unspecified violation of team rules. On Thursday, Bama placed assistant strength coach Cory Harris on adminstrative for -- this from the TideSports.com report by Tommy Deas and Aaron Suttle -- "providing impermissible benefits to (Clinton-Dix)." ...
For the Braves, a positively pragmatic postseason roster
And here we had been led to believe, via conventional wisdom if not complete accuracy, that the Braves lack the requisite “sense of urgency” to win in October. The same Braves just benched $21.3 million in ballplayers. Omitted from the Division Series roster were: Second baseman Dan Uggla, who’s the ...
Nobody's picking the Braves - except Kate Upton
In the wake of yesterday's revelation that 27 of ESPN's 33 baseball analysts have picked the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Atlanta Braves in the Division Series comes another sobering forecast. Daniel Rathman of Baseball Prospectus doesn't just think the Dodgers will prevail -- he believes they'll sweep. Whoa, Nellie. ...
The Uptons haven’t fully delivered yet, but there’s time
Over the 162-game season, an Upton drove in 96 runs for the Braves. That’s not a bad number for one player. Trouble is, the Braves have two Uptons, both of whom arrived to great ballyhoo, neither of whom fully delivered on his vast potential in Year 1 with his new ...
Six of 33 ESPN analysts pick the Braves over L.A.
ESPN asked its 33 baseball analysts -- yes, ESPN has more analysts than the Menninger Clinic -- to make postseason picks. Of the 33, six picked the Atlanta Braves over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series. Of those six, two picked the Braves to reach the World Series. ...
Dodgers will be tough to beat, but they’re not unbeatable
Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball. But Kershaw, who finished this season with the lowest ERA (1.89) by a National League starter since Greg Maddux in 1995, is no more imposing than Bob Gibson was in 1968, when he had a regular-season ERA of 1.12 and limited the ...
When the Falcons see red, they stop - and lose
This post is an adjunct to the Falcons-Patriots game column, which can be found on myajc.com, our premium site 1. The Falcons, who were bad at scoring touchdowns in the red zone through three games, got worse in Week 4. They entered Sunday night’s game having gone 6-for-12 at scoring ...
More red-zone failures equal another Falcons loss
Having lost two winnable games and a half-dozen players to injury, the Atlanta Falcons were in danger of losing a bit of the luster they’d labored long to acquire. As if on cue, one of the NFL’s most glamorous – and notorious – teams arrived at the Georgia Dome on ...
Lane Kiffin fired by USC: What took so long?
It's hard to believe now, but there were those -- I was among them, sorry to say -- who believed Southern Cal would be the nation's best team in 2012. The Trojans were ranked No. 1, ahead of even reigning champion Alabama, in preseason. Then they actually started to play, ...
On Georgia's great blocking and its less-great D
This post is an adjunct to the Georgia-LSU game column, which can be found on myajc.com, our premium site. 1. Georgia outmuscled LSU, which isn’t often outmuscled. The Bulldogs rushed for 196 yards – and that was with Todd Gurley missing the second half -- and Aaron Murray wasn’t sacked. ...
This could be the year Georgia proves unstoppable
The Georgia Bulldogs escaped September 3-1. They’ll exit November 11-1, and Dec. 7 they’ll play for the SEC title. Not since 2005 has the SEC champion failed to play for the BCS title. Nothing we’ve seen so far — and we’ve seen a lot — suggests that these Bulldogs aren’t ...
If the Jackets look 'terrible,' whose fault is that?
The wonder wasn’t that Georgia Tech lost. The wonder was that the Jackets had, inside the final 90 seconds, a chance to win (or at least tie). Virginia Tech did as little as you can do and still beat a quality opponent – which the Jackets are, most games if ...
Questions, and a few answers, about Braves postseason
We know the Braves will play Games 1 and 2 of the Division Series next Thursday and Friday. Beyond that, we know little about what October will entail. (Such is the nature of October.) Here, though, we make some guesses.Which Round 1 opponent would be the most desirable?Assuming the Braves ...
For the win(s): Jackets, Bulldogs and Falcons
Four days, three big football games: Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech on Thursday night; LSU at Georgia on Saturday, and the New England Patriots against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday night. You ask: Who’s going to win? I say: Locals sweep. You say: “Bradley, you’re a homer.” I say: Perhaps, ...
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