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As Atlanta weeps, put Braves' blame where it belongs
Atlanta: Take two aspirin and call me in March. The Braves will be in spring training. The Falcons will be preparing for a draft. Until then, there may not be a lot of interest in what either one does. I’ve posted a full column on MyAJC.com on the Falcons’ dreadful ...
Something wrong with Falcons besides personnel
When a football team is 1-4 — regardless of whether that team was once considered a Super Bowl contender or never had much hope to being with — there can only be two reasons: 1) Bad players; 2) Bad coaching.When a talented team like the Falcons is 1-4 — and ...
Short takes: Falcons' season officially a disaster
The Falcons are 1-4. They still have 11 games left. But if ever a season could feel like it's over after only five games, this is it. Super Bowl team? The Falcons right now are just spittin' distance ahead of the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL's overall standings after losing ...
Braves, Falcons: Win-win or cover your eyes? (updated)
The Falcons (who play the New York Jets at the Georgia Dome) and the Braves (will try to avoid playoff elimination in Los Angeles) represent tonight’s TV viewing choices. Will be a night of dread for Atlanta sports fans? Neither team has done much of late to inspire confidence. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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