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FEBRUARY 12-18, 2010 CHECK US OUT AT SCOREATL.COM VOL 6 NO 7 02 I SCORE ATLANTA Get In The Game! ALW A Y S AT SCOREA TL.COM FEBRUARY 12-18, 2010 SCORE ATLANTA I 03 ™ STARTING SHOT OF THE CCAANN’’TT LINEUP MMIISSSS THIS WEEK PUBLISHER/EDITOR I.J. Rosenberg GENERAL MANAGER Bob Houghton WEEK… Columnist Foster Lander discusses the Colts- MANAGING EDITOR Alex Ewalt Saints Super Bowl and how it affected both ART/CREATIVE DIRECTOR DJ Galbiati 4 BUSINESS MANAGER Marvin Botnick starting quarterbacks’ legacies. SALES MANAGER Mark Mayo SALES ASSOCIATE John Saunders BEAT WRITERS Josh Bagriansky (Falcons), Stephen Black Braves beat writer Fletcher Proctor takes (UGA), Jason Boral (Thrashers), Dave Cohen (Georgia State), a look at the club the week before all Ricky Dimon (Tech), Alex Ewalt (Preps), 5 Rajesh Gupta (Hawks) Fletcher Proctor (Braves) players report to Spring Training. STAFF WRITERS Cranston Collier, Joe Deighton, Zander Lentz, Brian Penter, Foster Lander, Brian Jones, Jason Murdock CONTRIBUTORS Tad Arapoglou, Dean Zindler, Kevin Dankosky, In our Score More section, Jason Boral Mitch Evans, Matt Judy, Tony Schiavone, Richard Diamond, shares his thoughts on the Thrashers’ Joe Haines, Brian Katrek, Chris Dimino, Mike Bell, Matt Stewart, Fred Kalil, Nick Cellini, Phillip Leopold, Dave Marshall, Greg Smith, Steak 11 handling of the Ilya Kovalchuk trade and Shapiro, Mike Cather, Beau Bock, Hal Lamar, Chris Cotter, Roy what it means for the future. Hickman, Dave Cohen, John Olah, Jeff Woolverton, Chris Voss, Bob Rathbun, Courtney Capps, Bill Hartman, Chuck Dowdle, Shannon Alderman, Dan Kamal, Dennis Scott, C.C., Hal Lanier, Catch up with the latest on our college beat Jeff Batten, Micah Hart, Ben Wright, Alan Vasquez, Andrew Vedlitz, Brian Jones page; Mark Fox (pictured) has his UGA squad SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS Mitch Albom, Dave Kindred, Barry Bloom 15 playing good basketball as the team moves ™ SCHOOL farther into SEC play. LISTING TEAM SCOOP AND VOICES INSIDE AT SCORE E For the second year in a row, Score Atlanta CHEROKEE/FORSYTH: Cherokee, Creekview, Etowah, Forsyth Central, North Forsyth, Sequoyah, South Forsyth, West Forsyth, Woodstock COVER DESIGN BY DJ GALBIATI H will be webcasting the state traditional COBB: Allatoona, Campbell, Harrison, Kell, Kennesaw Mountain, Lassiter, COVER PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ATLANTA BRAVES T Marietta, McEachern, N. Cobb, N. Cobb Christian, Pebblebrook, wrestling finals at Gwinnett Arena in their Pope, S. Cobb, Sprayberry, Walton, Wheeler N entirety. We will be bringing you the action live DEKALB: Chamblee, Columbia, Decatur, Druid Hills, Dunwoody, Lakeside, SCORE LIST-KATREK HAWKS Marist, Miller Grove, M.L. King, Paideia, Redan, St. Pius X, Southwest BROTHERS IN RED: Feb. 3 was a big 6 8 O at GHSA.tv, with expert analysis and cameras DeKalb, Stephenson, Stone Mountain, Tucker day for lots of football signees across the state, but the FULTON: Alpharetta, Blessed Trinity, Centennial, Chattahoochee, Douglass, SCORE MORE FALCONS - GA STATE on all five mats. The event will be archived Grady, Lovett, Mays, Milton, North Springs, Northview, Riverwood, moment must have been especially memorable for 11 12 Roswell, Tri-Cities, Westminster, Woodward Academy afterwards at GHSA.tv. Going to the event? GWINNETT: Berkmar, Brookwood, Buford, C. Gwinnett, Collins Hill, Dacula, Newnan’s Ogletree brothers, who signed with Georgia. 13 CALENDAR 14 MEDIA-AD INDEX Grayson, Greater Atlanta Christian, Meadowcreek, Mill Creek, Norcross, Pick up Score’s official guide to the finals! North Gwinnett, Parkview, Peachtree Ridge, South Gwinnett, Wesleyan Alec (left) and his twin Zander (right) are two of the GORDON: Calhoun, Gordon Central, Sonoraville state’s top defenders. Photo courtesy of Rob Saye. 15 GA TECH - UGA ALW A Y S AT SCOREA TL.COM 04 I SCORE ATLANTA Get In The Game! Mistakes, missed opportunities doom Colts in Miami as Brees cements legacy n recent years, the Super Bowl has come Drew Brees to Pierre Thomas. Had the kick well-thrown ball from Manning. record for completions — and two touch- Idown to a singular, defining play, one that failed — one wrong bounce, a better set of Later in the half, the Colts made yet downs. He had always struggled to gain wide- casual viewers and fans alike will remember hands on the football — the Colts quite like- another critical error on a third down deep in spread national recognition even while put- forever. Super Bowl XLIV’s outcome, howev- ly would’ve broken the game open, and their territory. On a third-and-1, Indy chose ting up prolific regular season numbers, but er, was derived from a series of gutsy decisions Payton’s decision would forever have been to run up the middle behind an undersized Brees’ performance in Miami plants him made by Sean Payton, dubious ones by Indy’s lampooned. One bounce was all it took, and offensive line instead of allowing Manning squarely on a level with Manning and Tom Jim Caldwell and a few timely plays made by as has been the case all season, New Orleans to pick up a first down through the air. When Brady. The win cements his legacy as one of some of New Orleans’ unsung heroes. Let’s got one more to roll their way. smallish running back Mike Hart got stuffed the best — and most underappreciated — sig- play armchair quarterback for a little while. It may have taken a great bounce to and the Colts were forced to punt, New nal-callers of his generation. Trailing 10-6 at halftime and kicking off, give the Saints a major boost, but by mak- Orleans received the ball back in great posi- On the other hand, Tracy Porter is just Payton had simply said to punter and kickoff ing just a few crucial plays, Indianapolis tion to tack on a score to end the half — and beginning to create his legacy. The native specialist Thomas Morstead “ambush” in the could have prevented New Orleans from Garrett Hartley added a field goal as time Louisianan by way of Indiana University, locker room — the Saints’ name for their taking over the game. The Colts were up ran out. Trying to pound the ball in that sit- Porter started from day one and played well. onside kick. Though he’d never executed an 10-3 midway through the second quarter uation would make sense for most NFL Quietly, unassumingly, Porter worked his way onside kick in a game and rarely practiced for when young receiver Pierre Garçon — a teams, but not for the league’s 31st-ranked back from a wrist injury last year before step- such a situation, Morstead placed an sixth rounder in 2008 that had emerged as rush offense. Manning can find a way to ping in front of Reggie Wayne to nab a Peyton absolutely perfect bouncer that caromed off one of Peyton Manning’s favorite targets pick up a yard or two, and why not stick with Manning pass. He pointed ahead with an out- the Colts’ Hank Baskett. After a scrum that this year — dropped a crucial third down the man who got you there? stretched left arm, carving a path through lasted more than a minute, New Orleans’ pass. After the miscue, the Colts ran only All the second-guessing of the Colts which to run, darting through the hole and Chris Reis (a Roswell High School and three offensive plays for the rest of the half, does not, by any means, take away from the etching his name into Super Bowl lore. Georgia Tech grad) emerged from the pile and Manning threw no more passes. Sure, brilliant work of Drew Brees and cornerback Manning and several other Colts gave chase, with a recovery that shifted momentum dras- drops can be a part of football (look no fur- Tracy Porter. Brees, easily the NFL’s most but their efforts were futile — there would be tically. Now, the Saints had good starting ther than Terrell Owens, potentially a future accurate passer (70.6 percent), again torched no catching the Saints on this night. field position and put it to good use, scoring Hall of Famer), but there’s no excuse for a solid defense to the tune of 288 yards while Lander can be reached at six plays later on a 16-yard screen pass from Garçon being wide open and dropping a completing 32 of 39 passes — a Super Bowl [email protected]. ALW A Y S AT SCOREA TL.COM FEBRUARY 12-18, 2010 SCORE ATLANTA I 05 A look at the ’10 Braves the first week of Spring Training; Damon still in play? o adapt an idea from Notre Dame asked to play first base — a position he’s drooling. Nate McLouth in centerfield could TFootball, the motto of the 2010 Braves only played in a handful of games — as well very well bring the Gold Glove back to may just be “win one for the skipper.” As the as protect Chipper Jones by batting fourth in Atlanta and his speed on the basepaths is a Atlanta Braves franchise enters the 2010 sea- the lineup. Glaus hit 27 home runs in 2008 weapon that Cox can use to put pressure on OUT FRONT son, manager Bobby Cox enters his final but missed most of last year with a shoulder the Phillies in the division. season as Braves manager and, this week, injury. If Glaus can rediscover his form of As far as making the playoffs, the enters his final Spring Training with the club just two years ago, the Braves lineup will schedule sets up well for Atlanta with no (pitchers report on Feb. 17-18, and the rest of feature some sorely needed pop. Glaus’s Boston or New York Yankees on the slate.