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It’s going to take more than $45 million* to help Vine City

When it comes to building stuff, Atlanta’s got a great history of public-private partnership. Civic leaders come up with an idea, City Hall irons out the political wrinkles, and then Coke, Delta, the Home Depot, and other hometown companies contribute funding. It’s how Atlanta won the Braves and the Olympics. On the other hand, our track record of taking care of people in the process of building things—large venues in particular—is lousy.

We’re No. 1! According to us!

Yet to those who root for pro sports (and, I hope, those who play them) the night felt unmistakably like a consolation prize. We were told repeatedly how lucky we are to be here in this world-class sports town. We were reminded that the New York media was against us. We were so showered with love and self-serving praise that you almost expected, say, a Boston sports fan to leave behind his seven titles in the last twelve years so he could come down and buy season tickets to half-empty Turner Field.

Should Atlanta bid on the 2024 Olympics? “No,” says Andrew Young

The [Associated Press reports today][2] that the U.S. Olympic Committee sent letters to thirty-five big city mayors—Atlanta’s Kasim Reed among them—asking if they might be interested in hosting the 2024 summer games. So, should Atlanta, the last U.S. city to host the summer games, put its hat in the Olympic rings?“No,” said Andrew Young, who helped bring the games here in 1996, emphatically.

Mike Tyson set to pummel Fox Theatre’s image

On Tuesday, taking a break from staging yet another warmed over musical based on a 1980s popcorn flick, the Fox Theatre announced a booking that will finally rival 2011's Charlie Sheen's "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour in terms of sheer hot messiness. On April 20 at 8 p.m, the Fox (presumably) proudly presents convicted rapist, "The Hangover" punchline and former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson starring in his one-man show "Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth" live on stage at the Atlanta landmark.

On the Falcons’ New Stadium

A new stadium! Georgia Dome 3.0: the thinnest, lightest, fastest arena ever! With a retractable roof! At a cost of a mere billion, $300 million of which would come from hotel/motel taxes, the rest from Falcons owner Arthur Blank and the NFL.

Sure, the Falcons won yesterday. But does Matty Ice deserve a raise?

At halftime of yesterday’s Falcons-Seahawks playoff game, I ran into Thomas Lake, former Atlanta magazine writer and now Sports Illustrated senior editor. The latest issue of SI has a great story by Tom about his unrequited love for the Falcons over the past twenty years, how the unflagging devotion he’s had for the team has ended, without exception, in disappointment. Would this year be different?

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.

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:

Tweets of the Day: August 20, 2012—Augusta National Edition

The austere Georgia golf club finally admitted its first women members today.

U.S. swimmers release Call Me Maybe video—spearheaded by one of our own

No matter what happens when she swims the 200 butterfly next week, Atlanta's own Kathleen Hersey has already made us proud. She's credited as director of the USA Olympic Swimming Team's official rendition of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe."

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