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Freshman Brian Oliver scored career-high 18 points and Gani Lawal added 13 to help Georgia Tech win its fifth straight game in a 79-53 victory over Southern Cal on Saturday night. The Yellow Jackets (6-1) began the second half on...

Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La., if favored Texas beats Nebraska in today's Big 12 Championship game. Plans are being made for the A&M-Georgia announcement on Sunday, when bowl bids officially are extended. Should Nebraska upset the Longhorns, however, an A&M...

Ga. – Officials in Athens say University of Georgia freshman defensive end Montez Robinson is jailed on charges involving altercations with a female student...Eric Dellinger said Friday that the 19-year-old Robinson was being held at the Athens-Clarke County jail after...

Ga. — Wednesday was difficult, Georgia head coach Mark Richt said. But the long days leading up to his final decision were really tough. After months of criticism and rumors, Richt finally made his decision official, announcing the firings of...

The Spiros Louis, to give the Olympic Stadium its proper name, commemorates the Greek water carrier who in a very different arena, a few miles away, won the first marathon of the modern games. When the final whistle went, Everton...

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Sotiris Manolopoulos prepares to dunk the ball for Kolossos in the Rhodes club�s 16-point triumph over visiting AEK yesterday. While basketball leaders Olympiakos and Panathinaikos were to fight it out for supremacy at the local league late last night in...

It had been 30 years since you crossed the pond and witnessed the historic American college football event in which the Kentucky Wildcats, led by Derrick Ramsey, Art Still and Co., chewed up the Georgia Bulldogs 33-0 at Sanford Stadium,...

The dog was only 4 and had served as the school's mascot for less than two full football seasons. The team's record in his tenure -- the shortest in the history of the lineage -- was 16-7. Because of the...

Uga VII passed away suddenly Thursday morning at his home in Savannah. At 4 years old, he was practically a pup and had served as Georgia's mascot for not even two full football seasons when he unexpectedly succumbed to heart...