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Mon., December 5, 2011 4:12pm
The United States Specialty Sports Association will bring a 48-team Florida-Georgia Showdown to Valdosta next April. The weekend tournament will feature the best traveling teams for kids from the two states aged 9 to 14. With 12 to 20 players on each team, that usually means at least 10 hotel rooms per team, said tournament officials.
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Thu., September 29, 2011 7:13am
Just like that, the season is over for the Atlanta Braves. Wednesday night, on the final day of baseball's regular season, the Braves lost 4-3 in 13 innings to the Philidelphia Phillies in Atlanta. That gave the St. Louis Cardinals the National League Wild Card playoff spot--by virtue of their win over the Houston Astros.
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Wed., September 28, 2011 10:11am
Wednesday is major league baseball's final day of the regular season, and the Atlanta Braves have fallen into a tie for the National League Wild Card playoff spot. Should the Braves and Cardinals both win, or both lose their respective games Wednesday, a one game playoff will be held Thursday in St. Louis to determine the Wild Card winner. However, if one wins today while the other loses, the winner earns the wild card outright.
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Mon., September 26, 2011 7:41am
If the Atlanta Braves are to make a second straight playoff appearance, they'll have to do something over the next three nights they haven't done a lot of lately -- win. With three regular season games left, the Braves' lead for the National League's wild card playoff spot is down to one game over St. Louis.
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Mon., August 22, 2011 8:02am
Warner Robins is still alive in the Little League World Series. The Georgia-team reprresenting the Southeast region won its Saturday afternoon game. That advanced Warner Robins into a game Monday night against a team from the Great Lakes.
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Thu., August 18, 2011 11:37am
A baseball team from Warner Robins is preparing to play a team from Lafayette, La., in the first round of the Little League World Series. The Warner Robins team went 5-0 during the Little League Baseball Southeastern Region Tournament earlier this month to earn a trip to the Little League World Series.
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Fri., July 22, 2011 9:16am
The Braves’ baseball franchise won its 10,000th game on July 15th. The Braves are only the third team in history to achieve that mark—with wins threaded through Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta. The Braves’ fan base is strong as a recent nationwide poll of team popularity showed—where the Atlanta Braves rank third. Writer Jack Wilkinson taps into the history and popularity of the team with a new book -- “100 Things Braves Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die”.
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Fri., July 15, 2011 12:27pm
Harris Polling reports that for the third year in a row the Braves trailed only the Yankees and Red Sox in fan support. The Braves have been one of the most popular teams for over ten years, despite the fact that, according to Harris, baseball is less popular in the South. The survey also found the team as the fourth most popular choice to win this year’s World Series.
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Thu., June 9, 2011 12:42pm
Players from UGA, GT, Georgia Southern, Mercer, and many other high schools and universities, were selected in the 2011 draft.
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Thu., June 2, 2011 1:36pm
The 12th annual Regions Bank Directors Cup competition may have produced winners that almost anyone could have guessed, but it once again provided for great excitement throughout the Georgia high school sports year.
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