Category: Articles
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MikeCheck: Who are Southern Jaguars? A proud HBCU program packing guts and grooves for Liberty Bowl trip to face Memphis
They are a prideful, plucky program in powder blue, gold and white uniforms. Plus, they’ve got a hip-shaking, funky marching band called the Human Jukebox. The Southern Heritage Classic arrives in town the following week as one of the top games on the HBCU football schedule. But Southern will bring a touch of soul to…
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UGA answers some, not all, questions in win over Vanderbilt
I never planned on becoming a Vanderbilt football season ticketholder. As an Atlanta native who grew up cheering for the University of Georgia and eventually going to school there, I’ve repped the red and black my entire life. But fandom makes even the best of us occasionally do some bass-ackward things in order to keep…
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MikeCheck: After answering national team calls, prideful Grizzlies thriving on FIBA World Cup stage
Essentially at the ‘now-or-never’ stage of his fledgling NBA career, forward Bruno Caboclo simply doesn’t back down from many challenges. The way Caboclo sees it, only one of two things can happen – and either outcome is personally productive. Several of Caboclo’s teammates on the Grizzlies’ roster share that sense of purpose as they spend…
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MikeCheck: No two ways about it … Alcorn State is the best team in HBCU football this season
BIRMINGHAM – The significance of that notorious number isn’t lost on Fred McNair. Recently seated at a media day table between two of the best players in FCS football this season, the Alcorn State coach was still struggling eight months later to make sense of that controversial call in the end zone of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz…
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Lang’s World: SEC Coach Power Ranking
I suppose you could argue that Saban is not the most creative or innovative coach in college football, but these days being a college football coach is as much about being the manager of a giant corporation as it is successfully installing a run-pass option.
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Lang’s World: Nick Saban has done it all. Now what?
Nick Saban is the greatest coach in college football today, and perhaps the greatest of all-time. As the head coach at Alabama, Saban enters this season with a record of 141-21 with the Tide. So what do you do when you’ve done all there is to do? What next?
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#IMHO: All-Decade teams, aging vets and Celtic pride?
Grind City Media’s Lang Whitaker and Michael Wallace have been covering the NBA since shorts were short and socks were long, but their opinions about the League don’t always mesh. #IMHO is their weekly chance to weigh in on the most pertinent news from around the NBA. What’s lit? What’s lame? Find out each week…
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MikeCheck: Team USA staff, players confident Jenkins will prove ideal fit as Grizzlies new coach
By all accounts, Jenkins blends a surgeon-like attention to detail with an in-your-face intensity. The Grizzlies and the league saw signs of that last month in Las Vegas. Three weeks after taking the job, Jenkins guided Memphis to the MGM Resorts Summer League championship while still working to finalize his staff and with No. 2…
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MikeCheck: Team USA workouts boost Jackson Jr.’s momentum for sophomore NBA season
Jackson is competing with the Select Team of NBA rising stars to help the USA National Team prepare for the FIBA World Cup qualifier that starts later this month in China. His presence at Team USA training camp makes Jackson the lone teenager among 30 NBA players gathered in Vegas – a talent crop that…
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#IMHO: Jeremy Lin, Dad Bron and Team USA
Grind City Media’s Lang Whitaker and Michael Wallace have been covering the NBA since shorts were short and socks were long, but their opinions about the League don’t always mesh. #IMHO is their weekly chance to weigh in on the most pertinent news from around the NBA. What’s lit? What’s lame? Find out each week…