Cobb stadium dissenters finally got a chance to speak

The TV news cameras rolled. The newspaper writers hovered over their laptops. On Tuesday morning, two weeks after being escorted kicking and screaming from the Cobb County Commission chambers, the opposition to the Braves stadium finally was to have its day to address the commissioners. Three dissenters showed up.

Tweets of the Day: September 28, 2012—Chipper Jones Edition

The Braves will honor the ostensible future Hall of Famer before tonight's Mets game. Here's how fans (and Chipper himself) feel about his retirement:

A proposed law could cloud details of spending on the Braves and Falcons stadiums

Atlanta Braves pitchers and catchers are basking under the Florida sun as they prepare for the 2014 baseball season. Meanwhile, dark clouds could be forming in Atlanta to obscure details of public spending on the team’s proposed $672 million stadium.

A $1 billion stadium and $104 million quarterback won’t buy you victory

The curse of being young is that you think you’ll be young forever, and then one day you wake up and realize you’re not anymore. That’s a bad day, and sort of what I imagine the Falcons are feeling right now. Recall that last year they beat the best team in football (the Seattle Seahawks) to advance to the NFC championship, only to squander a seventeen-point lead against San Francisco, which stopped the Falcons at the 49ers own ten-yard-line with the game on the line.

Pretty girlfriend of Alabama QB from last night’s BCS game lives in Georgia

Touchdown for the Peach State!'Bama may have won last night's BCS National Championship Game, but the highpoint of the evening was ESPN announcer Brent Musburger's strange fixation on the girlfriend of the winning team's QB.
Two of the Atlanta Falcons’ most important players explain why this season will be different

Two of the Atlanta Falcons’ most important players explain why this season will be different

Not that we’re keeping tabs, but it’s been more than 2,035 days since the Atlanta Falcons last appeared in a playoff game. Even for a franchise that’s mastered the art of meh, that’s a long time. But when you look around the team’s Flowery Branch training facilities these days, you sense change in the air.

Tweets of the Day: June 8, 2012—Smoltz Edition

As the Braves induct pitcher John Smoltz into their Hall of Fame, Twitter reacts:

Forbes: Atlanta No. 2 for ‘sports misery’ in 2013

No self-respecting, self-loathing Atlanta sports fan will be shocked to learn that we registered prominently on Forbes annual list of the most miserable sports cities. We’re just surprised we’re not No. 1.
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The Talented Mr. Riley: Q&A with the Braves third baseman on making the All-Star team and fatherhood

In July, Austin Riley earned his first All-Star Game invitation and was named National League Player of the Month. He talks about his routines on the field, chances for another Braves World Series, and what he's learning as a brand-new dad.

The financial dimension of Atlanta hosting the Final Four

The economics of playing host to 100,000 rabid basketball fans

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