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SCORE MORE 2 | DECEMBER 2-15, 2011 | VOL. 7 ISS. 35 CONTENTS CAN’T MISS THIS WEEK 4 The Fletch previews GPB coverage of the GHSA football playoffs. STARTING LINEUP In this week’s cover story, Josh Bagriansky looks at the chances of metro At- 5 lanta teams in the football semifinals and beyond. PUBLISHER/EDITOR I.J. Rosenberg GENERAL MANAGER Bob Houghton MANAGING EDITOR Stephen Black 7 Our prep cover story previews the metro Atlanta high school hoops season. ART/CREATIVE DIRECTOR DJ Galbiati ASST. MANAGING DIRECTOR Fletcher Proctor Are you ready for BOWLPALOOZA? Go here to preview our bowl contest, which BUSINESS MANAGER Marvin Botnick 9 will debut this year. SALES Chris Love TEAM SCOOP AND VOICES BEAT WRITERS SHOT OF THE WEEK... COVER DESIGN BY DJ GALBIATI Stephen Black (UGA), Sean Conway (Falcons), COVER PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOSH MARTINDALE, WALTER Joe Deighton (Gladiators), Fletcher Proctor (Braves), PINION, AND TUCKER HIGH SCHOOL Scott St. Lifer (Swimming), Robby Kalland (Wrestling), Ryan Caiafa (Basketball), Josh Bagriansky (Hawks), 6 SCORE LIST - TRIVIA Thomas Watson (Tech), Dave Cohen (GSU) 12 GSU - TECH - UGA STAFF WRITERS Brian Jones 13 SCORE MORE Jack Morbitzer INSIDE AT SCORE TO ADVERTISE IN SCORE ATLANTA: Score Atlanta is looking for new sales associates 404.256.1572 as well as writing and graphic design interns. Copyright 2011 Score Atlanta Publishing, LLC. All rights re- For sales positions, e-mail Bob Houghton at served. Score Atlanta is published every week on Fridays. Views [email protected]. For writing in- expressed in Score Atlanta are not necessarily the opinion of ON THE ternships, e-mail Stephen Black at sblack@ Score Atlanta, its staff or advertisers. Score Atlanta does not knowingly accept false or misleading editorial content or adver- AMAZING TURNAROUND: Georgia continued its winning streak with a 31-17 win at Geor- scoreatl.com. For graphic design internships, tising nor is Score Atlanta responsible for the content or claims gia Tech on Nov. 26. It was the 10th consecutive win for the Dawgs, who dropped their first two games e-mail DJ Galbiati at [email protected]. of any advertising or editorial in this publication. No content (ar- Feel free to call 404-256-1572 to speak with ticles, photographs, graphics) in Score Atlanta may be used for of the season. Mark Richt and company will be back in town this weekend, when they face No. 1 LSU reproduction without written permission from the publisher. someone about any of these positions. in the SEC championship game. Photo courtesy of Rob Saye. WWW.SCOREATL.COM | 3 COLUMNISTS (which didn’t even win its own division) orientation as an insult, that is crossing the for the BCS championship. (Remember, line. I will stand up against that. in 2007, Georgia finished tied for the SEC The evolution of Leo Mazzone continues THE East title but lost a tiebreaker. Alabama can- on 680 The Fan’s The Rude Awakening and, not even claim a share of the SEC West title he has had me recently yelling at my radio. this year.) ESPN crews Saturday night were Normally “any press/attention is good press/ FLETCH failing to give Georgia a shot, including the attention,” but not in this case. I remember team broadcasting the Egg Bowl. not too long ago I felt like Doc Holliday/Val Football final fours shown on GPB The game wasn’t interesting, so they Kilmer in Tombstone whenever Mazzone started discussing the SEC championship piped up. “Oh Leo, I apologize; I forgot you By Fletcher Proctor game. At one point the announcer laughed were there. You may go now.” when asked if Georgia had a shot. Matt Mil- Now though I guess the bigwigs told len at least would entertain the possibility him he needs to talk more on the show and he that Georgia could win, saying that Geor- has been interjecting him into the conversa- gia has improved since he called the Dawgs tion, bringing up bizarre points and killing the game against South Carolina. The AJC’s show’s momentum. I will be driving and sud- Jeff Schultz seems to believe that Georgia denly scream, “Shut up!” because I was try- has more than a “puncher’s chance,” against ing to hear banter between Sandra and Perry No. 1 LSU. “That short-changes Georgia.” Laurentino when Mazzone weighs in. When Schultz would argue that Georgia is rolling will it get better? He is starting to sound like and Aaron Murray is the best quarterback my 91-year-old grandfather, who also used to that the LSU defense will face this season, play baseball for the Yankees. While I love especially with his talented crop of wide re- my grandfather and believe he has forgotten ceiver. Oh, yeah, the defense is pretty good more about sports than I will ever know, he too opines Schultz. He noted that Jarvis doesn’t deserve a radio show. Sound familiar? Jones and company “throttled the Tech op- Photo courtesy of Rob Saye. Proctor can he GHSA football playoffs have reached starting at 4:30 p.m. with the action begin- tion offense (last) Saturday.” be reached at [email protected]. Tthe semifinals and Georgia Public Broad- ning Saturday at 1 p.m. Score Atlanta will There is also the chance that Georgia casting is all over it. GPB TV has televised be blogging all weekend long, and you can has done just enough the last two times out to countless 19 games this season and the web weigh in on the interactive live chat on gpb. keep it vanilla before throwing the chocolate has featured all of those games as well as org/sports. The games will reair December swirl with sprinkles against LSU in the title CAN YOU BELIEVE... an additional 14 to choose from each Friday 12-16 on GPB Knowledge with one game game. You never know, and if LSU gets down night. With the GHSA finals next week, Geor- each night at 8 p.m. early with the game not really mattering as ...HE SAID That? gia Public Broadcasting will be live from the Klein did a great job last year in the BCS math already has the Tigers in the title Georgia Dome Friday and Saturday before Class A game, and he has done a superb job game, perhaps Les Miles takes down the tents “Why you see me pushing the kickoff of the first game until the final tro- this season on WSB’s Thursday night games. and lets Georgia have its day in the Dome. He his helmet down [is] because phy has been handed out. It will be interesting to hear him in the booth has bigger and badder fish to fry. The broadcasting crews should be spe- with Coach McFarland, who should bring a I’m trying to remove myself cial this season too as some new voices will tremendous insight to the broadcast. Rathbun FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE … be bringing you the games and breaking down has been calling college football the past few On his radio show leading up to the from the situation.” the action. Blessed Trinity head coach Tim seasons and everyone knows his voice from Georgia game, Georgia Tech head football McFarland, who won a state title with Ro- his work with the Atlanta Hawks. His enthu- coach Paul Johnson responded to a bark- Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh swell, will be in the booth for a pair of games siasm is sure to fit right in at the high school ing caller, “Anybody who calls into a radio tried to explain his actions against the and local play-by-play voice Bob Rathbun level. Also if anyone knows more about Geor- show and barks is either retarded or doesn’t Packers that earned him a two-game sus- will call in the booth for the Class AA title gia high school football than Tommy Palmer, have a life.” Credit the AJC’s Ken Sugiura, pension from the NFL. He continued, sort showdown. Zach Klein of WSB will also call please tell me. I am looking forward to work- who covers the Tech beat for calling John- of. “What I did was remove myself from a game and the GPB.org web team of Bob ing a game with one of the state’s legends. son out after the coach apologized. “Not sure the situation in the best way I felt, me be- Houghton and myself will be joined by a true what to say. It was a poor choice of words,” ing held down in the situation I was in. Georgia high school football legend Tommy NO RESPECT … wrote Sugiura in his beat writer blog. While And further, my intentions were not to kick Palmer for the Class A game Saturday. Sandra Golden brought up an interest- I hate parts of the PC world we live in these anybody, as I did not, removing myself as The GPB TV Football Friday’s team of ing point on The Rude Awakening last Tues- days where coaches such as Johnson are be- you see, I’m walking away from the situa- Gil Tyree, Trey McDaniel and former Brook- day when she asked who LSU was playing ing stripped of their personalities as to not tion and with that I apologize ... for putting wood coach Dave Hunter will announce in the SEC Championship. She was kidding give away any honesty, using retarded is a two of the games. Niki Noto, Jon Nelson, of course, but it apparently is a foregone harsh “cutdown” that shouldn’t be used as myself in the position to be misinterpret- Jackie Brittain and Mark Harmon will also conclusion to everyone that LSU is going to such.