September 2012
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Big Weekend for Georgia Tech FootballBig Weekend... →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
This is a big weekend for Georgia Tech football, the likes of which doesn’t come along often and especially not so early in a season.
There was the unveiling Friday afternoon of a statue of Bobby Dodd on Bobby Dodd Way outside of Bobby Dodd Stadium. Today, the terrific Tech teams of 1951 and ‘52 - back-to-back SEC and bowl game winners - will be...
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Size and Athleticism Benefits Gotsis →
by Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily -
On the subject of freshman defensive lineman Adam Gotsis – or “The Thunder from Down Under,” as some Georgia Tech coaches refer to the Australian newcomer – the first impression as he approaches is that he doesn’t look to be 6-feet-5 and 300 pounds.
With most lads that size, you might expect him to have more of a flabby physique.
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My Great Great-Granddad →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
Robert Cork, aka Bobby, never saw Bobby Dodd coach. In fact, he never saw his great-grandfather at all.
But in a way, he feels very familiar with him.
The 19-year-old Cork, who is currently enrolled as a sophomore at Georgia Tech — he’s majoring in biomedical engineering — has heard plenty of stories over the years about Dodd, however.
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Best Laid Plans →
By Matt Winkeljohn
Sting Daily
It wasn’t necessarily in Jeremy Greenwald’s plans to run cross country, but you wouldn’t know it from his first outing for Georgia Tech.
As a younger lad growing up in El Paso, Texas, Greenwald’s goal was to play another sport. When that didn’t work out, he started running. Fast forward several years and here he is at Tech running for...
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No Surprise →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
For Becky Megesi, honors like being selected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame, have always been for other people, not for her.
Megesi, a 2001 graduate and an assistant track and cross country coach since 2005, remembers always getting a kick out of trying to pry the nominees out of Georgia Tech Men’s Track and Field Head Coach Grover Hinsdale, who is on...
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Spreading The Wealth →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily Not long after Georgia Tech racked up 712 yards of offense in Saturday night’s 59-3 win over Presbyterian, head coach Paul Johnson said more good came of the game then one might think. Chiefly, a whole lot of very young players got playing experience, much of that going to student-athletes who saw their first college action. “A lot of freshmen played,” Johnson...
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Let's Talk About Us →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
There wasn’t a lot of fanfare surrounding Georgia Tech’s 59-3 win over Presbyterian on Saturday night. The game didn’t even make the crawl across the bottom of the screen on any of the networks televising college football games until well after it went final. That the blowout didn’t draw much buzz outside of Atlanta wasn’t a big deal....
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Loud and Clear →
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Kaleigh Colson is determined to have her say in how far Georgia Tech goes during the 2012 season.
That’s fine with Head Coach Tonya Johnson and the rest of the Yellow Jackets. They know that for the team to stay on the roll the team has been on in jumping out to a 5-1 start — the Jackets head to Gainesville, Fla., to play in the University of Florida...
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Youth Will Be Serving →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
The Southern Intercollegiate Championships are billed as “the oldest fall collegiate tennis event in America.” (It began in 1968 and last year featured 160 of the nation’s top players and 26 participating schools).
There’s no better place for the youthful Georgia Tech tennis team to cut its teeth. We’re talking young here.
The 2012...
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Almost Coming Up Aces →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
Were you to go through the checklist with just 44 seconds left Monday night at Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech would have come up aces.
Heading into the season, a no-frills prognosticator would say that for the Yellow Jackets to improve not only from last season but the last two that they would need to be: better on defense, better on special teams and better throwing...
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Ready To Roll →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
There will be a few new faces in new places – some of them unanticipated right up until head coach Paul Johnson’s depth chart becomes real – yet when Georgia Tech plays at Virginia Tech Monday night there will be some predictables. This game’s going to be hot. Every GT-VT game is big. The winner of this game has for the past seven seasons gone on to...
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Walkosky Hopes Teams Are Special →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
So you’re David Walkosky and you’ve landed something of a dream job but perhaps you’re not entirely sure how to feel about that because of the ying and yang of matters.
Paul Johnson chose you to be his first special teams coordinator at Georgia Tech, which can be interpreted as a sign of faith. Johnson, after all, never had one since becoming the...
August 2012
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Working In →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
The message came early and it was emphatic. Last week, even before the first sneaker squeaked, Georgia Tech, men’s basketball coach Brian Gregory made something clear.
Julian Royal described it this way: “As soon as we started workouts, he said, ‘If you guys haven’t guessed, we’re going inside more this year,’ We’re going...
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Swinging Into Action →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
In the sport of tennis, love is synonymous with nothing.
Caroline Lilley, who played two years on the Georgia Tech women’s tennis team, learned that real life is not like tennis and that love can mean everything.
Like all college graduates, Lilley, a Management major from Portland, Ore., who transferred from the University of Kentucky in August, 2010, faced the...
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No Swan Song Yet →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
Professional golfers travel a lot so it’s no surprise that Chan Song has been all over the place - some might say halfway to Hades and only part of the way back - chasing his dream.
Song could use a break in his pursuit, and you can tune into, “Big Break Greenbrier,” this fall to see if the former Georgia Tech linkster gets one.
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Tech’s Orwin Smith seeks pinnacle →
by Ken Sugiura AJC
Orwin Smith’s personal goal for the season is flavored with boldness and hints of audacity.
The Georgia Tech A-back wants to lead the country in all-purpose yardage, which would require him to assemble one of the greatest seasons in school history. Smith, whose chiseled 6-foot-0, 205-pound frame contains ample boldness, is game.
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Heppler Gears up for New Season Without Trusty... →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
Few can swing a conversation from walk-in-the-park status to a top fuel drag race as quickly as Bruce Heppler, and Georgia Tech’s golf coach did it again the other day.
He had cause.
Classes began Monday, his assistant coach has left the program somewhat unexpectedly, the Yellow Jackets will begin qualifying today for the first of their four big fall...
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Basketball School →
By Marcus Dittmer Sting Daily
One day after the first day of classes on the Flats the Georgia Tech women’s basketball team had its first official team meeting of the year. For the first time since August, 2007, Sasha Goodlett - along with LaQuananisha Adams, Mo Bennett, Chelsea Regins and Metra Walthour - were not on the Yellow Jacket roster.
The quintuplet finished their Georgia Tech...
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Dreaming Of Space →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
If you’re fortunate enough to attend Georgia Tech’s Kickoff Luncheon Friday at the Cobb Galleria, you’ll hear Shane Kimbrough and that will make you more fortunate still. The keynote speaker graduated from Tech and became an astronaut, and he’s got stories.
He once flew so high directly over Bobby Dodd Stadium, for example, that even though...
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Kelsi Hammer →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
Kelsi Weseman was fourteen years old in 2004 when National Pro Fastpitch (NPF), the women’s professional softball league launched — actually re-launched.
Back then, there were six franchises, one of them was the Texas Thunder, which played its games in Houston, Texas.
The team has moved four times since then, the last move coming prior to 2012, to...
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Successful Preseason Camp Ends On Ragged Note →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
It’s been hot, they’ve worked a lot, they’re tired, sore, and Georgia Tech football players are moving this weekend from the hotel they’ve stayed in the past couple weeks into their respective dorms, apartments and such so … Saturday’s scrimmage was what you’d expect.
That’s a long way of saying what head coach Paul...
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Gold/White, Let's Fight →
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The players on the Georgia Tech volleyball team like each other.
They really do.
They like each other a lot.
That point needs to be stated and re-stated, as some doubts might arise on Saturday afternoon when the team holds its annual Gold/White Scrimmage beginning at 3 p.m. at O’Keefe Gymnasium.
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Tech wide receivers planning to surprise →
by Ken Sugiura AJC
It was everything to put a Georgia Tech fan at ease and perhaps even raise hope. QuarterbackTevin Washington unleashed a pass from about the 40-yard line to the corner of the end zone.
Wide receiver Jeremy Moore outmaneuvered a cornerback and dove headlong. With one outstretched hand, Moore captured the ball and brought it back to his body while touching down inbounds with...
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Technically Speaking →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
If you know Anthony Egbuniwe, it will come as no surprise that the former Georgia Tech linebacker’s football senses are tingling this the time of year.
Kickoff at Virginia Tech is less than three weeks away, coaches are hollering, pads are poppin’, muscles are aching, and … somehow a young man who toyed with the idea of trying to forge a pro...
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Look Before You Leap →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
THE FLATS - As Darren Waller heads into his sophomore season, he is attempting to make the leap to the next level, both as a wide receiver and on special teams. It turns out that the most important part of making that leap might be where he lands, at least as far as special teams goes. Beginning in 2012, the NCAA has put into effect a rule that prohibits players from...
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Finch staying classy at Tech →
by William Bretherton wbretherton@mdjonline.com.com
Although you won’t see former Kennesaw Mountain standout Jay Finch donning a red suit any time soon, he has been called Georgia Tech’s “Anchorman”. Though he doesn’t read the news off a teleprompter as the fictitious movie character Ron Burgundy does, he is the Yellow Jackets’ top returning offensive lineman. “I guess it goes well with me...
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Georgia Tech: 3 position battles to watch →
By Sean Bielawski | CBSSports.com
Georgia Tech has played an FCS opponent in week one in each of coach Paul Johnson’s first four seasons in Atlanta. That won’t be the case this year as the Yellow Jackets travel to Blacksburg to take on Virginia Tech on Labor Day. A few questions remain for Georgia Tech. Here are the three position battles to keep an eye on as the Yellow Jackets go...
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Tired Test →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
As a dying breed, two-a-day football practices have been given no voice in the matter, and if you could squeeze the truth out of some Georgia Tech players after they go through a pair of fully-padded sessions today most — if not all of them — would probably say that they’re alright with that.
Coaches might answer differently.
Fatigue may not, in...
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Tech hoping diet, yoga part of the answer →
by Ken Sugiura AJC
Georgia Tech guard Omoregie Uzzi and quarterback Tevin Washington live in symbiosis. Uzzi, the two-time All-ACC lineman, shields defensive tackles out of arm’s reach from Washington. Uzzi can explain his teammate and roommate’s returned benefit.
“We live right by the Krispy Kreme, so he makes sure I don’t make so many trips over there,” he said.
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The Quay Train →
Aug. 6, 2012
Quayshaun Nealy got a very nice birthday present for his 21st birthday Sunday afternoon.
He got an opportunity to put on shoulder pads for the first time in practice in 2012 and fly around the field.
About the only thing that Nealy might have wished for to make the day perfect — other than to deliver some birthday whacks — was for Julian Burnett to be playing next to...
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Success In Store For Women's Tennis Team →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
THE FLATS - While kicking back on Sunday, it was hard not to think back to Beijing, and what felt like magic. Yesterday, Roger Federer was — finally — in position to complete the “Career Golden Slam.” That’s the title somebody came up with, and it’s pretty good, for a tennis player who has won all four Grand Slam tournaments and...
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Tech in 2012: It’s a chance for Paul Johnson to... →
by Mark Bradley AJC
On the morning of Nov. 28, 2009, Paul Johnson was poised to become the unchallenged king of football in a state that takes the sport seriously. He was 19-5 in two seasons as Georgia Tech’s coach. That night his Jackets would play Georgia, whom they’d famously beaten 45-42 in Athens the year before.
Tech was 10-1, ranked No. 7 nationally and champion of the ACC Coastal...
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Deep Peek into the Executive World →
By Jon Cooper Sting Daily
No one will ever accuse Yellow Jackets Pierre Jordan, Daniel Miller and Brandon Reed of not knowing what it takes to be a leader.
Certainly not after this summer.
Jordan, Miller and Reed not only found out what it takes to be executive material but did their part to help some of the most successful companies in the country find them.
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Three-Dimensional Constructs →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
- The first day of football practice, at face value, may not offer much for prognosticators to hang their bets upon. It tends to be a bunch of young men running around in P.E. clothes and helmets, trying to remember plays they last ran in the spring all while some freshmen drag down the curve.
It is not too early, however, to point out that no matter how much...
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Proud As A Peacock →
By Matt Winkeljohn Sting Daily
Lest one might imagine that there was a sense of wistfulness Thursday when Zach Peacock walked out of his Finite final because, well, it was the last exam of his college career, think again.
No way. Peacock will be one of a whopping four former Georgia Tech men’s basketball players to graduate tonight in ceremonies at the Fox Theater, and no, there will be...
