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Cobb County Taxpayers Won't Get A Say On Funding The Braves' Stadium

Funny thing, this: A new Braves stadium in Cobb County was announced as basically a done deal, without mentioning how much public money would go toward it, or asking taxpayers for their approval. The answer to the former is apparently "a lot." As for the latter: those taxpayers won't get a say....

Braves Announce Plans To Leave Atlanta For Cobb County [Updates]

As first reported by the Marietta Daily Journal, the Atlanta Braves will announce their intention to leave the 16-year-old Turner Field for a new stadium in Cobb County, Georgia, when their stadium lease expires after the 2016 season....

Hawks Rookie Suspended For Hitting DeMarcus Cousins In The Dick

Congratulations, Dennis Schröder! you're only four games into your career, and you've already joined the illustrious fraternity of NBA players who have hit other NBA players in the dick....

New Looks At The New Falcons Stadium

WSB-TV in Atlanta has gotten a look at some of the newest renderings of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium, tentatively set to open for the 2017 season. Once again, be aware these designs will change somewhere, but the current plan is for an arena that looks like none other....

High School Cheerleader Sets Record With 44 Back Handsprings In A Row

Mikayla Clark of Westlake High School (Ga.) broke a world record with 44 consecutive back handsprings at her high school football team's homecoming game....

Atlanta Newspaper Tweets Some Dumb Shit About Lottery Winner

It's since been deleted (of course), and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has yet to offer an apology or an explanation, but some announcement about their account being hacked will probably hit the Twitter machine any moment now....

Crews In Hazmat Suits Cleaned The Locker Room After The Bucs Left

MRSA is no joke. But this is darkly comic....

Braves Fans Threaten Team Boycott Over GLAAD Spirit Day Facebook Post

Today is GLAAD Spirit Day, an annual event that aims to bring awareness to bullying of LGBT youth. (You might notice a lot of people wearing purple today. That's why.) In association with the organization, every MLB team posted a link to GLAAD's Spirit Day webpage to their Facebook site. Braves fan...

Report: Injured Julio Jones Could Be Done For The Season

The Falcons' season just keeps going from bad to worse. Last night's loss to the Jets at home dropped them to 1-4, and now there's this:...

What Did Craig Kimbrel Say To His Bullpen Coach? We Asked A Lipreader [Update]

Much criticism has landed on Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez since the Braves' miserable exit last night from the National League playoffs. Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel, the game's best reliever, was warm and ready in the bullpen, but Gonzalez says he never gave thought to bringing his closer in ear...

Report: Braves Players Boycotted Chipper Jones's First Pitch

Christ, could the Atlanta Braves get any more annoying? Baseball's fun police reportedly added another name to their "People Who Don't Respect The Game And/Or The Atlanta Braves And All That They Stand For" list, and that name happens to belong to Braves legend Chipper Jones....

Juan Uribe Sends The Dodgers To The NLCS With This Bomb

In the bottom of the 8th in Los Angeles, Juan Uribe sent the Atlanta Play The Game The Right Ways packing with an absolute monster blast to left field....

Mark Sanchez, The Cheerleader: Your <i>Monday Night Football</i> GIF Roundup

New York 30, Atlanta 28: So that was a surprisingly entertaining game. The Jets won on a 44-yard field goal as time expired but this play from Julio Jones is your play of the game. Jones snatched a 46-yard pass with one hand and Cromartie all over him. It came exactly one play after Jones was flagg...

We Have A Dirty Bird Sighting

And it comes courtesy of Jeff Cumberland after he and Geno Smith hooked up to give the Jets a 10-7 lead in Atlanta....

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The Braves Are Leaving Their Highest-Paid Player Off The Playoff Roster

Braves second baseman Dan Uggla made $13 million this season, more money than any of his teammates did. That seems like a pretty OK deal for a second baseman that can hit 22 home runs in 448 at-bats. Except that Dan Uggla also sucks, and now he sucks bad enough to be left off the Braves' roster for ...

Bob Kraft And Money Mayweather, Chilling: Your Pats-Falcons Roundup

Patriots 30, Falcons 23: At one point, New England held a 30-13 lead. Bob Kraft thought the game was over, gleefully taking photos with Floyd Mayweather in his box seats. But Atlanta rallied back and came extremely close to a 17-point comeback in under six minutes. ...

Terry Pendleton Roughed Up Chris Johnson For Sliding Into First Base

We've proven time and again that sliding into first base gets you there slower than if you run through it. Chris Johnson joined that Idiot Club of first-base-sliders and ended the Braves' rally tonight against the Phillies. His punishment was an enraged Terry Pendleton getting physical with him in ...

Atlanta-Milwaukee Brawl Was Brewing For Three Months

An awful lot to unpack from last night's Brewers-Braves bench-clearing scrum/fracas/donnybrook/other term that only gets used for baseball near-brawls. It started after Carlos Gomez took his time rounding the bases after homering off Paul Maholm, jawing at three different Braves along the way. But i...

Braves Fan Ignores Baseball, Fondles Nearby Woman's Breasts Instead

This Braves fan in the Budweiser section of Turner Field takes "Grab Some Buds" way too literally....