Restaurants have always been volatile businesses – the first to wink out in a downturn; the first green shoots to crop up with an uptick. If Georgia’s restaurants in the last year are any indication of the larger business community,…
Arthur Blank is living every pro football fan’s dream except his, because owning a National Football League franchise was never his dream. “It wasn’t something I’d planned, either,” says Blank, who bought the Atlanta Falcons from the Smith family following…
From the Golden Isles of Georgia to the red carpet at the 2011 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles, Morgan Brian has been recognized as the best female high school soccer player in the nation. Never mind that Brian hails…
When you are the type of golfer who turns A 150-yard par three into a six-stroke cross-country quest over every bit of terrain except the direct route from tee to hole, it’s difficult to imagine contributing to anything beyond sunburn…
Jack Rudolph was in the doghouse at home, which was appropriate since the dog was the only one in the family showing him any love. It was October 1977. Rudolph, defensive coordinator for the mighty Valdosta football team, had just…
You name it and Lee Walburn has done it – basketball player, baseball player, high and low hurdler, sports editor, sportswriter, Atlanta Braves publicity and promotion director, public relations guru and award-winning magazine editor. What impresses me most about Roswell…
Drive along Georgia Highway 84 East between Bainbridge and Cairo and you’re sure to see the large green and white sign proclaiming this stretch of road to be “Bobby Walden Highway.” Yes, it refers to that Bobby Walden, the one…
Under different circumstances, there was nothing the Georgia Tech faithful would have enjoyed more than the sight of Charley Trippi falling flat on his face. Unfortunately for the Yellow Jackets, the University of Georgia sophomore phenom was lying prone in…
I talked with Coach Bobby Cremins two days after his College of Charles-ton Cougars were upset by Chattanooga in the finals of the Southern Conference basketball tournament. “We did not play well,” he says, “but mainly we were simply too…
To paraphrase a World War II Marine Corps commander, “Retire, hell, I just got here.” So says William Porter (Billy) Payne, who recently finished his second year as chairman of Augusta National Golf Club. In his current role, Payne, the…
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