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In the city that's too busy to hate, but where our most-cherished rivalry is considered "clean, old-fashioned hate," let The Hater find the latest in sports that just needed to be hated on.
Ex-Jacket Julian Royal would rather play for Paul Hewitt at George Mason
Former Milton High star Julian Royal turned down offers from better basketball programs (and also Georgia) and stuck with Tech after the Jackets canned Paul Hewitt and hired Brian Gregory. After two seasons floundering in Gregory's program, Royal decided he wants to play for Hewitt after all and will transfer ...
Chipper Jones, now free to speak mind, rips umps and MLB after blown call
http://youtu.be/7kNYAI-d8UA Chipper Jones has a lot of time on his hands now that he's not playing baseball. He's become quite the prolific Twitter user and, after getting into a stupid Twitter war with some idiot fan a few weeks back (and drawing the ire of Deadspin), Chipper has now turned ...
Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend is one of Maxim's Hot 100
It appeared Manti Te'o took a big step toward his goal of getting everyone to forget about that whole fake girlfriend thing when the Chargers selected him in the draft last month. But Te'o's public shame and humiliation gets freshened up today with a pretty good Maxim trolling. The magazine included ...
Surprisingly, EA Sports designs its avatars to replicate college football players
In a stunning admission, a former EA Sports executive testified that the video-game maker modeled the players in its college football titles just like the players on actual college football teams. The news is surprising because no one figured that avatars with the same positions, heights, weights, jersey numbers, equipment, ...
Al Horford thinks Hawks should actually have to earn fan support
AJC Hawks beat guy Chris Vivlamore blogs today on Al Horford's exit interview, offered Horford a chance to join in on the tradition of ripping ATL fan support . . . and Horford didn't do it: "I know we have great fans. It was proven. Yeah, during the regular season ...
Sportsbook tabs Georgia football as co-fave to win SEC East
The Greek online sportsbook recently posted odds to win college football conference divisions and has the Dawgs and Cocks as co-chalk in the East while Bama is odds-on favorite to win the West again. For entertainment purposes, and not for gambling purposes of any kind whatsoever, here are the odds ...
Zaxby's claims title of 'Official Chicken of College Sports' for no good reason
http://www.zaxbys-theofficialchickenofcollegesports.com/ Zaxby's is The Official Chicken of College Sports, according to Zaxby's. It claims this title because it's sponsoring two schools located in each state where Zaxby's has franchises. Georgia and Georgia Tech both made the cut. In the video announcement above Zaxby's co-founder Zach McElroy wears a Dawgs football ...
Joe Hamilton to help Tech get players like him again?
Coach Paul Johnson hired Tech legend Joe Hamilton for a recruiting job that AJC Jackets beat guy Ken Sugiura notes Hamilton isn't allowed to do because the NCAA recently suspended a rule change that allowed staff other than assistant coaches to recruit. CPJ, you old sly dog. Always innovating! Seriously, ...
Spurs fans clamor to take credit for piercing banshee screams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f9wo08Um2w&feature=player_embedded If you plan to watch tonight's Spurs-Warriors Game 2, and you should because Game 1 was boss, then the best play might be to put the television on mute. Screaming Spurs Lady will be in the house. Or at least two of the women claiming to be the person ...
Nick Saban lists his other Georgia vacation home for $10.9 million
When not owning Georgia and the rest of college football, Bama boss Nick Saban chills in his vacation mansion that sits on the shores of Lake Burton in the North Georgia mountains. Apparently, Saban takes time off. Soon Saban may have to find a new spot to watch game tape ...
UGA drops off latest Fulmer Cup leaderboard
Dawgs players are going to have to cause some real mayhem between now and the start of the 2013 season if UGA hopes to repeat as Fulmer Cup champions. UGA, the 2010 champion for college football's most cherished award of dishonor, dropped off the leaderboard of the latest Fulmer Cup ...
Knicks' J.R. Smith says partying too hard not the reason he was awful this time
For some reason, Knicks fans suspect that J.R. Smith's awful game against the Pacers in Sunday's Game 1 is related to Smith partying too hard in the city the night before the game. Their reasons probably have something to do with Smith admitting that he partied too hard during his ...
LeBron James not unanimous MVP, outraging fans who once hated him
Remember when most everyone hated LeBron James? It shouldn't be too hard because it was less than two years ago. But now many of those same fans are up in arms about a perceived slight against James, proving once again that, as a group, sports fans are fickle, emotionally immature ...
Thomas Dimitroff, PED detective: Falcons GM is on the case
Falcons fans concerned that their favorite Dirty Bird might be on HGH need not worry: Thomas Dimitroff is on the case! When not scouting players, building the roster or negotiating contracts, the Falcons GM is eyeballing his players to decide if the team needs to investigate them for PED use. ...
ESPN blames Jets for Tim Tebow hype
The Jets cut Tim Tebow this morning and all you need to know about ESPN's coverage is that Stephen A. Smith may be the most reasonable, self-aware voice on the subject in the entire operation. It certainly wasn't Rich Cimini, who included this paragraph in his news story about Tebow's ...
NFL scout on Alec Ogletree's off-field issues: '(Bleep), that's Georgia. They have them every year.'
Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has been covering the NFL for a long time. Each year he talks to scouts and personnel men to get their (usually anonymous) opinions on college prospects and uses them for a position-by-position series leading up to the draft. McGinn's capsule on Georgia's ...
Hawks playoffs tickets a bit pricey at $12
Before the Hawks soiled their pants in Game 2 at Indiana last night to go down 2-0 in the best-of-seven series, Living Social was offering $16 tickets for Game 3 and 1,656 people who apparently are unfamiliar with this Hawks team bought them all up. Turns out that's a rip-off, ...
Florida coach wants his guys to be like Harry Potter?
Florida QB coach Brent Pease posted the above photo to his Twitter account this morning. Not sure exactly why, but he did. The message with the pic: "Florida Qb's have the drive and desire #TheStandard @jeffdriskel @TylerMurphy10 #buildingchampions" Pease does not specify exactly what his QBs have the drive and ...
D.J. Fluker says he took cash from agents at Bama, agent says Twitter account hacked
Bama star D.J. Fluker's Twitter account (@DJFluker76) sent out a (since-deleted) tweet last that suggested he took money from agents while still playing for the Tide. "Yea I took $ n college so wat. I did wat i had to do. Agents was tryin to pimp me so I pimped ...
After Auburn investigation of allegations against Auburn, Auburn finds no wrongdoing
Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs was so troubled by the allegations made against his school's football program in a Roopstigo.com report that he courageously commissioned an internal investigation. Jacobs announced today that the review cleared Auburn of any wrongdoing whatsoever, which should make this whole thing go away once and ...
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