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Bay Area, Houston land Super Bowls
The NFL sent a clear message about stadium politics Tuesday, awarding the 50th Super Bowl in 2016 to the San Francisco 49ers’ new stadium over the Miami Dolphins’ facility. NFL owners reiterated the message by also rejecting Miami for the 51st Super Bowl, awarding the 2017 game to Houston instead. ...
Falcons get $200M in stadium funding, want Super Bowl
NFL owners voted Tuesday to provide the Atlanta Falcons with $200 million in league funding for their planned stadium, and after expressing his appreciation Falcons owner Arthur Blank said he’ll ask his fellow owners for something else, too: a Super Bowl. Blank, in an exclusive interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...
NFL will vote on $200M in Falcons stadium funds
A key part of the Falcons’ plan for paying for their new stadium will be on the agenda when NFL owners hold their annual spring meeting next week in Boston. The owners of the league’s 32 teams are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a proposal to provide the Falcons $200 ...
Stadium contractor finalists named
Plans for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium moved ahead Friday as five construction firms made the short list to become the lead contractor for the billion-dollar project.The finalists are Holder Construction of Atlanta; Arizona-based Hunt Construction Group; Turner Construction Co. and Skanska USA, both with corporate offices in New York; ...
Stadiums seek to compete with comforts of home
For an important job interview, architect Bill Johnson prepared a slide presentation that included a photo of a fan settling into a plush seat in his basement to watch an NFL game on a high-definition big-screen TV, surrounded by all the comforts of a sports aficionado’s home. “This is the ...
Wuerffel, 13 others named to Atlanta-bound Hall
The College Football Hall of Fame, in the process of relocating to Atlanta, added 14 new members Tuesday, including three Heisman Trophy winners. Former Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel, former Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde and former Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne — all Heisman winners — lead this year’s class of ...
New network: All SEC all the time
Hardly suffering from underexposure now, the SEC will command even more attention starting in August 2014. That’s when the league, in partnership with ESPN, will launch its own national television network, which will carry about 45 football games and 100 men’s basketball games each year as part of around-the-clock programming ...
Falcons, GWCCA hire architect for $35 million
A Kansas City-based architecture firm will be paid up to $35 million to design Atlanta’s new retractable-roof stadium. The contract with 360 Architecture, negotiated by the Falcons and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, was approved unanimously Tuesday by the GWCCA board and signed immediately after the vote. It calls ...
Deal with stadium architect up for approval vote
The Atlanta Falcons and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority have negotiated a deal with a Kansas City-based architecture firm to design Atlanta’s new retractable-roof stadium. The agreement with 360 Architecture is subject to the approval of the GWCCA board, which will vote on it Tuesday. If the board approves ...
Playoff berth caps long climb for Atlanta bowl
For years, Atlanta’s college football bowl game struggled to sell enough tickets to keep the NCAA from shutting it down. In 1978, for a Georgia Tech-Purdue matchup, the Tech coach’s wife led a ticket-sales drive. In 1983, for a Florida State-North Carolina game, the last-ditch strategy was to ask businesses ...
College football playoff is peachy for Atlanta bowl
When Atlanta’s Chick-fil-A Bowl moves into the future as part of college football’s new playoff, it expects to be accompanied by a big piece of its past: the Peach. Founded in 1968 as the Peach Bowl, the Chick-fil-A Bowl, as it has been known since 2006, was chosen Wednesday as ...
Atlanta lands role in College Football Playoff
From the Olympics to Super Bowls to Final Fours, Atlanta has a rich record of hosting marquee sporting events. Another is on the way. College football’s new four-team playoff — scheduled to start with the 2014 season and expected to immediately become a mega-event in U.S. sports — carved out ...
New playoff gets straight-forward name
Eager to turn the page from the complex and convoluted BCS era, college football’s power brokers gave the most basic name imaginable to the four-team playoff that will crown the national champion starting with the 2014 season. They announced Tuesday that the new event will be branded simply “College Football ...
How college football’s new playoff will work
As soon as a national college-football playoff was approved last year, Chick-fil-A Bowl officials began eyeing a role for Atlanta in what will become one of the marquee events in U.S. sports. The bowl submitted a formal bid last month to become one of the rotating hosts of semifinal games. ...
K.C. firm is top choice to design Falcons stadium
A Kansas City-based architecture firm that designed a new home for New York’s two NFL teams is the top choice to design Atlanta’s new retractable-roof stadium. The Falcons and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority have chosen 360 Architecture as the “apparent awardee” of the lead architect job, according to ...
Playoff boosts Masters TV ratings
Sunday’s playoff at the Masters paid off for CBS. The dramatic finish helped boost the Nielsen ratings for the network’s coverage of the Masters’ final round to an average of 10.2 in the nation’s metered markets, up 26 percent from 8.1 for the previous year’s final round, which also went ...
Caldwell-Pope leaves UGA for NBA
The Georgia men’s basketball program suffered a big offseason loss Monday: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, the SEC player of the year as a sophomore, departed for the NBA. Caldwell-Pope decided to enter the NBA draft and forgo his final two seasons of college eligibility, Georgia coach Mark Fox said. Caldwell-Pope plans to ...
Blank on stadium: With politics done, ‘the fun starts’
Now that the political hurdles for a new downtown stadium have been cleared, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is looking forward to what he calls “the fun part”: designing his team’s dream home. In an exclusive hour-long interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — his first interview since partial public funding ...
Michigan emotional after loss in title game
When Michigan’s basketball team boards its plane to leave Atlanta on Tuesday, coach John Beilein wants to see smiles on his players’ faces. “If they’re not smiling, we’re going to make them smile,” he said late Monday night (actually early Tuesday morning). The Wolverines, a No. 4 seed with three ...
Sports business booming in Atlanta; more on horizon
Take a look around the campus of the Georgia World Congress Center, and it’s easy to see that sports is big business in Atlanta. College basketball’s Final Four is in the Georgia Dome for the third time since 2002. Immediately south of the Dome is the proposed site of a ...
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