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Jeff Monken admits it; his stomach has been in knots the past several days. “It’s amazing how when this opportunity is first presented to you and you’ve got some time to think about it, it turns your stomach upside down,”...

S top wood pushers will see action at the 2009 JR White National Chess Championships, which will be held from December 5-9 at the Fiji Olympic House in Suva. The end-of-the-year championship will determine the national champion who will spearhead...

The German coach, who led Greece to the Euro 2004 triumph and qualification to the South Africa finals next summer, reportedly said that he has not spoken to the magazine. �I have not made any statements to any magazine. It...

Boyan Yordanov spikes for EA Patras against the Iraklis block. Panathinaikos has moved alone to the top of the volleyball league after a surprise thrashing of Iraklis by EA Patras on Friday. The Peloponnesian side downed Iraklis 3-0 at home...

Ga. — Georgia Tech’s running game has struck fear into the hearts of defenses all season long, but it wasn’t the Yellow Jackets’ ground game that dominated the early going Saturday. Georgia stole a page from Tech’s playbook, opening the...

Todd Holcomb, a co-founder of the e-mail newsletter Georgia High School Football Daily, came across a Dalton Citizen article about Staten’s exploits in 2006 while doing research for the Georgia High School Football Historians Association. The newspaper article noted that...

Trey Thompkins scored 19 points and Georgia rallied in the second half to defeat Jacksonville State 67-64 Friday. Jacksonville State (2-3) led by as much as 11 in the first half. After letting the lead slip away in the second...

Ga. — For 30 minutes last season, Georgia thought it had discovered the keys to beating Georgia Tech’s triple option. And then it all fell apart. Tech outscored Georgia 26-0 in the third quarter en route to a 45-42 upset...

Veazey, who has been at the Shepherd Spinal Center since earlier this month, left Atlanta during the early morning hours Thursday, and returned back to Shepherd later that night. But, while he was home, Veazey (middle, above) got a chance...