You don't believe in love at first sight? Then you don't know the story of Jimmy and Carol Nichols Ney. They met in kindergarten and never looked at anyone else, not while Jimmy was playing Gra-Y football, Atlanta Northside high…
In 1980, two future three-time All-American athletes entered the University of Georgia. One was Herschel Walker. Now tell me who the other one was. If you said Scott Woerner, Fireball Frankie Sink-wich or Charley Trippi, you would be wrong. The…
Do you remember Archie Griffin, the Ohio State running back and the only college football player ever to win two Heisman Trophies, in 1974 and 1975? Well, this is not about that Archie Griffin. This is about the Archie Griffin…
There is no greater love than that which a father has for his son. How do you honor a father who has been a perfect role model ever since you can remember? How do you honor a father who literally…
Tuscumbia, Ala., is famous for being the birthplace of two legends – the late author and lecturer Helen Keller, and two-time All-American tackle for the Georgia Bulldogs, George Edward Patton. Although Patton had established himself as an All-State quarterback by…
If you’re a Georgia Tech football player and all you want for Christmas is your two front teeth, it’s almost certain you can have them. Thanks to the volunteer work of Aaron LaFayette King, DDS, who serves as team dentist,…
Georgia Tech has had its share of great quarterbacks —- Billy Lothridge, Frank Broyles, Wade Mitchell, Kim King and Joe Hamilton —- but none was greater than Darrell Crawford out of Kingsport, Tenn.
November 30, 1957 was a sub-freezing but delightful afternoon for Bulldog fans at Grant Field. A stiff wind was blowing out of the northeast as some 40,000 fans — mostly Tech partisans — came to see if Tech could make it nine consecutive victories over Georgia or if the Dogs would find a way to break the drought. They did, thanks to Theron Coleman Sapp, a mighty fullback out of Lanier High School in Macon.
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