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Ken Sugiura

Ken Sugiura covers Georgia Tech. He started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.

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Tech golf into NCAA championships

The Georgia Tech golf team earned the right to compete for its first national championship by placing fourth at its NCAA regional Saturday in Tallahassee, Fla. The NCAA championships will be played at Capital City Club-Crabapple beginning May 28. It’s the first time the club has hosted the event. The ...

Former Yellow Jackets scrapping for NFL spots

The number of Georgia Tech football players who have battled their way onto NFL rosters after going undrafted is not small. The Falcons alone had two last season, wide receiver Kevin Cone and fullback Mike Cox. After no Tech players were selected in last month’s draft, six former Yellow Jackets ...

Tech golf tied for fifth at NCAA regional

The Georgia Tech golf team has put itself in position for a tense final round after finishing the second round of its NCAA regional in a tie for fifth place Friday. The Yellow Jackets will need to finish in the top five of the 13-team regional in Tallahassee, Fla. Tech ...

Former Georgia Tech player Glen Rice Jr.

Seizing his second chance, Rice a draft hopeful

It took some time, but Glen Rice Sr. can now acknowledge it — maybe the best thing that could have happened to his son was for him to get kicked off the Georgia Tech basketball team. Perhaps without it, Glen Rice Jr. wouldn’t be at the NBA draft combine in ...

Every ACC school - including Georgia Tech - has been to the NCAA tournament at least once going back to the 2007.

Is ACC best basketball conference ever?

1. Georgia Tech basketball coach Brian Gregory was part of the school's delegation at the ACC’s spring meetings this week in Amelia Island, Fla. The biggest topic of conversation among basketball coaches, Gregory said, was that “we have an unbelievable opportunity within ACC basketball, because this is the best basketball ...

Tech golf fourth at NCAA regional

After the first of three rounds, the Georgia Tech golf team stood in a tie for fourth place Thursday at its NCAA regional tournament in Tallahassee, Fla. The Yellow Jackets will need to finish in the top five in the 13-team regional in order to advance to the NCAA championships ...

Rice at draft combine

As Glen Rice Jr. makes his bid for a spot in the NBA, he has a supporter in the man who dismissed him from Georgia Tech’s basketball team. “I really think he’s made a really good turn in terms of some of the stuff that he’s done this year, so ...

In her seven-year tenure as Georgia Tech's softball coach, Sharon Perkins (left) led the Yellow Jackets to three ACC titles and six NCAA tournament appearances.

Statement from Sharon Perkins

Georgia Tech softball coach Sharon Perkins’ contract was not renewed Tuesday, ending a seven-year tenure in which the Yellow Jackets team won the ACC three times and made six NCAA tournament appearances. Perkins released a statement Tuesday night to the AJC. “The past seven years have been an incredible experience. ...

UGA squeezes out Tech in 11th

Georgia Tech and Georgia may play another 359 games and not play another one like they did Tuesday night.Three weeks after the Bulldogs put a 17-0 thumping on the Yellow Jackets at Turner Field – Tech’s worst loss in the history of the rivalry – the two teams engaged in ...

Perkins fired as Tech softball coach

In his seventh week on the job, Georgia Tech athletic director Mike Bobinski fired his first coach. The victim was softball coach Sharon Perkins, who was let go after a highly successful seven-year tenure. “After careful consideration, I have decided it is in the best interest of our softball program ...