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Has Johnny Manziel grown too big for Texas A&M?
It was a great story: Redshirt freshman wins quarterback job for Texas A&M, a team facing its first season in the high-falutin’ SEC; he engineers a famous upset of Alabama; he wins the Heisman Trophy; he becomes a brand unto himself – Johnny Football. Seven months after claiming his Heisman, ...
Heat Check: Braves start cold but get warmer
Our Heat Check starts with a team that had a losing week but got rather warmer toward the end. Three guesses who that’d be. BRAVES: They were swept in San Diego despite outhitting the Padres in all three games. They returned home and were shut out by the Giants’ Madison ...
Vote now: When Beachy returns, what starter sits?
This is a tough one: When Brandon Beachy returns to Atlanta Braves, which starting pitcher will be moved to clear a spot? The reason it's so tough is that, duh, there's no easy answer. None of the five has been terrible. The one who has been the worst to date ...
What's wrong with LeBron? Start with the Spurs
Nobody ever said being the best player in the world was easy. Every postseason game LeBron James plays isn’t just a game but a referendum on LeBron James. Is he shooting too much? Too little? From too far away? If he’s missing, should he stop shooting? If he chooses to ...
ESPN likes what the Falcons did. (No, it doesn't!)
The nice thing about ESPN.com – as opposed to ESPN the TV networks, about which there’s not much nice – is that if you click around you can find some writer in Worldwide Leader cyberspace who agrees with whatever it is you happen to believe about a particular team. (I’ve ...
Phil Steele tabs UGA No. 9 in land, No. 2 in SEC
A lot of Georgia fans swear by Phil Steele, who in his 2007 College Football Preview picked the Bulldogs to tie for the SEC East title at a time when not many people were all that high on them. They wound up tying for the SEC East title but losing ...
How many more titles for the Heat? Maybe two
When the Heat’s newly assembled Big Three greeted their Miami constituency in July 2010, LeBron James predicted “multiple championships." For effect, he said, “Not one. Not two. Not three. Not four. Not five. Not six. Not seven.” It took two years, but the Heat won a title. They’re favored to ...
Second pick to win the World Series? The Braves
The Atlanta Braves awoke Wednesday with the second-best record (behind St. Louis) in baseball and the biggest lead (seven games over Washington, which is only a half-game ahead of Philadelphia) in any of the six divisions. That’s not bad. Neither is this. The Braves are becoming something of a Vegas ...
A clever night of hitting for the bashing Braves
These Atlanta Braves have bashed opponents into submission before, but Monday’s game offered the best example of them bashing with a purpose. They faced a good pitcher – Pittsburgh’s A.J. Burnett – who ranked third among National Leaguers in strikeouts, and right there you thought: “Strikeout pitcher against strikeout team. ...
Heat Check: Hot Braves could get even hotter
Our weekly Heat Check begins with the team that holds the biggest lead in major-league baseball. Hint: It’s not the Miami Marlins. BRAVES: They’re 6 ½ games ahead of the Washington Nationals, who won more games than any team last season and were expected to win more games than any ...
Good news for Hawks? ESPN says Paul is miffed
A column upcoming in Sunday’s AJC – it will be available on myajc.com – poses the musical question: Do the Atlanta Hawks have a real chance at landing Dwight Howard and/or Chris Paul? (Yes, we’ve posed it before, but it seems a fairly salient issue.) My guess is that they ...
Why will the SEC move to nine league games? TV
You didn’t think the SEC Network would come without a cost, did you? You didn’t think TV – meaning ESPN, which essentially means TV when the subject is sports – wouldn’t have a say in how the nation’s best football conference plays its football, did you? The college football regular ...
With Budenholzer, Hawks 'get the basketball right'
Ask Danny Ferry about his plans to rebuild the Atlanta Hawks, and he'll speak one sentence three times in the course of a 10-minute conversation: "We want to get the basketball right." Not the extraneous stuff -- the marketing, the ticket-selling, the merchandise-peddling. Just the basketball. Get the basketball right ...
Could the Falcons really slide to 8-8? Nah
The 2012 Atlanta Falcons achieved a great record (13-3) without anyone (except, er, me) calling them a great team. Well, here it is May 2013 and OTAs – Organized Team Activities – are about to begin, and guess which team is being viewed as less good than its hype? Writing ...
Sporting News omits Georgia from its Top 10
The Sporting News College Football Preview has returned after a year’s absence from magazine racks. And yet, even as we celebrate its reappearance, we’re compelled to note that the august publication thinks rather less of the Georgia Bulldogs than you’d expect. Sporting News ranks Georgia No. 12 in the nation, ...
Gattis to Fredi: 'Do you want to win?'
He has played only 37 big-league games, and already it's getting tough to find something new to say about Evan Gattis. Toward that end, his manager came to my aid. "I'll tell you a story," Fredi Gonzalez said Wednesday, after the folk hero had hoisted his first career grand slam ...
USA Today: Georgia State last among FBS teams
Every year, USA Today counts down -- actually, it counts up -- all the teams playing Division I-A (officially FBS) football. The good news, I guess, is that Georgia State is now included in that countdown. The less-good news is USA Today ranks the Panthers 125th, or last, in their ...
Addressing the thorny issue of the Braves' bullpen
Today's AJC column -- it's available on myajc.com -- addresses the Atlanta Braves' weakened-but-not-yet-weak bullpen. I know some among you believe the arm problems suffered by Jonny Venters and/or Eric O'Flaherty date back to the summer of 2011 and, not being an orthopaedist, I'm not prepared to say for certain ...
Tech's Paul Johnson: He's talking about practice!
Sunday’s AJC featured the fruits of a lengthy conversation with Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson. (It’s available on myajc.com.) Owing to space restrictions, not all of our not-so-little chat made the paper/site. But I would be remiss if I didn’t offer this bonus bit, in which Johnson addresses a familiar ...
Would Hawks hire a European import as coach?
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that the Atlanta Hawks are giving “significant consideration” to hiring Ettore Messina, the Italian-born coach of the Russian club CSKA Moscow. Wojnarowski also reports that Stan Van Gundy, identified as “Atlanta’s top target,” is “a long shot to accept the job.” Hiring Messina ...
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