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Gonzalez sticking with Garcia for Game 4
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has been keeping open the possibility of bringing back Game 1 starter Clayton Kershaw for Game 4 on three days’ rest, if the Dodgers were facing elimination. He’s been using a qualifier like “right now” when he has said he’s planning to pitch Ricky Nolasco. But ...
Braves quotes after Sunday’s loss to Dodgers
**BRIAN McCANN On what wasn’t going right with Julio “Early, Carl hit a slider that hung up a little bit more than Julio wanted and put a good swing on it, and I tip my hat to the middle of their order. I mean they seem to be on every ...
Rough night for Braves young guns
The Braves advanced to back-to-back World Series in the early 1990s on the strength of young pitching. Steve Avery and Mark Wohlers were pitching in their second World Series when they were 22. But in Game 3 Sunday night in Los Angeles, the Braves dependence on another youth movement came ...
Game 3 Review
DEFINING MOMENTS1. Carl Crawford’s three-run homerSituation: Braves up 2-1 with runners at corners and two out in the second inning.Result: Crawford hit a three-run home run on a Julio Teheran’s 2-2 slider to give Dodgers a 4-2 lead.Comment: Crawford had been only 2-for-9 in the series entering Sunday but went ...
Garcia brings experience to Game 4 start
Freddy Garcia was released by the Padres in spring training. Just two months ago, he was pitching in Triple-A for the Orioles. in his first start in Triple-A Gwinnett, after the Braves took a chance on him in late August and sent cash to Baltimore for him when Brandon Beachy ...
Season-ending knee injuries for Marshall, Scott-Wesley
Georgia lost four front-line players to injury during Saturday 34-31 overtime win at Tennessee. Medical tests on Sunday confirmed worse news for two of them. Tailback Keith Marshall and wide receiver Justin Scott-Wesley sustained torn anterior cruciate ligament knee injuries and are out for the season. The extent of wide ...
SEC REWIND
What we learned No team is the same year to year and no team is the same even week to week in the SEC. But Georgia’s defensive struggles now look like a given each week until some of the defenders start playing like SEC players. The survival test at Tennessee, ...
Johnson out to prove he is NBA player with Hawks
James Johnson has something to prove. The former first-round pick has played for three teams in his four NBA seasons. He is now with a fourth team as a non-guaranteed training camp invitee of the Hawks. Johnson said he had opportunities to sign with several teams this summer. The forward ...
After poor start, Falcons are desperate for a victory
In just the fifth week of the NFL season, the Falcons find themselves backed into a must-win situation. While the injuries have mounted and they’ve been stumbling over themselves in the red zone, the New Orleans Saints have raced out to a 5-0 start and are early front-runners to dethrone ...
FLORIDA-ARKANSAS REVIEW
Three things we learned from Florida’s 30-10 win against Arkansas:1. Someone may have mis-evaluated Tyler Murphy along the way.Either Murphy is a terrible practice player or the most-capable quarterback on Florida’s roster took way too many mental reps and played too much scout team. Murphy’s poise in the pocket, sense ...
Beat-up Bulldogs kick their way out of Knoxville
Georgia coach Mark Richt arrived at his postgame news conference Saturday hobbled and bleeding. It was only fitting after he watched his bruised and battered Bulldogs prevail in overtime against Tennessee, 34-31.Richt pinched a finger on his left hand moving a chair to sit down and address reporters following No. ...
Mississippi State’s defense can’t stop LSU
A scoring trend morphed the SEC this season. The scoring average of the 14 schools increased by four points from last year.The trend infiltrated Davis Wade Stadium on Saturday night — at least on one side of the field.Mississippi State’s defense, which entered the game as one of the better ...
Missouri opens SEC play with 51-28 win at Vanderbilt
James Franklin threw for four touchdowns and Missouri squashed any doubts about its early season schedule with a 51-28 victory at Vanderbilt on Saturday.The Tigers moved to 5-0 and opened conference play without missing a beat in the program’s first trip to Nashville as a member of the SEC. Vanderbilt, ...
Nick Marshall steps up, leads Auburn to victory
Nick Marshall stood up after taking a final knee in the victory formation and gingerly walked back to the home sideline as teammates rushed the Jordan-Hare Stadium field in celebration.It might as well have been a well-earned victory lap for Auburn’s junior quarterback.With the game plan to use his athletic ...
LSU tops Mississippi State 59-26
Zach Mettenberger surveyed the field with plenty of time to throw and then delivered a perfect spiral to Odell Beckham Jr., who stopped short of the sideline, spun inside and galloped 33 yards untouched for the touchdown.It was the ninth and final time the two hooked up for a completion ...
Big Auburn win makes bowl trip an almost certainty
Hope you weren’t holding your breath every time Auburn carried the ball after coughing it up twice in the fourth quarter late Saturday night. You might have passed out.Maybe you did. Maybe you’re just coming to.If so, you missed Auburn coming of age.You missed Nick Marshall once again proving he ...
Tyler Murphy shows poise in guiding Florida
He looks effortless, moving all directions in the pocket as though being controlled by a joystick.He steps up under duress to make throws, sidesteps pass rushers and calmly scans the deep part of the field.The Gators are getting all this poise and prudence from a guy who never took meaningful ...
Clowney sits out game, citing sore ribs
South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney made a game-time decision not to play Saturday night for the Gamecocks against Kentucky, catching coach Steve Spurrier and Clowney’s teammates by surprise. “I don’t want to get into all of that,” Spurrier said after South Carolina’s 35-28 victory. “He told me he couldn’t ...
Connor Shaw leads Gamecocks past Kentucky
Apparently, South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw’s right shoulder is just fine.Knocked out of the game in the first quarter last week against Central Florida, Shaw was back in the lineup Saturday night and passed for 262 yards and a touchdown in the Gamecocks’ 35-28 victory over Kentucky.“Connor Shaw played a ...
Worley takes “steps forward” in loss to Georgia
Behind a glossy ambivalence over another heartbreaking loss, the words of Tennessee quarterback Justin Worley exuded confidence.And who could blame him?After the Vols just missed an upset of No. 6 Georgia in a 34-31 overtime loss on Saturday at Neyland Stadium, the junior took “some steps forward,” according to Tennessee ...
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