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Okay, we are going to look at that replay one more time.  I promise this will be the last time. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

Hey, blue! See ya!

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says the announcement last week that Major League Baseball is ready for a "vast expansion" of video reviews in 2014 has signaled the beginning of the end of umpires as we know them.

Terdoslavich is tearing up Triple-A pitching this year while playing rightfield for the Gwinnett Braves.  He is batting .335 with a league leading 15 doubles.  He has also hit seven homers and is second on the team with 26 RBIs.

What about Joey?

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says even though the outfield on the big league level in Atlanta is loaded with talent, switching hitting Joey Terdoslavich, playing in Gwinnett, is making his case at getting a shot.

These stories are enough to make me want to sleep in the radio booth the next few days instead of the hotel.

Haunted or not? Many baseball players say "yes"

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says the Radisson Lackawanna Hotel in Scranton, Pa. has scared the daylights out of many minor league ballplayers through the years. Fact or fiction?

I may be wrong, but I think we are going to the Braves team batting average rise when McCann is inserted in the lineup.

The Gwinnett connection proves fruitful

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says Brian McCann is ready to return to the Atlanta Braves starting lineup and the Gwinnett Braves are stepping up big to help the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing tragedy.

Freeman brings a solid batting average back to a team that needs a solid batting average.

Freddie is ready

WSB Sports Directors spent the weekend watching Freddie Freeman rehab his strained oblique injury in three games with the Gwinnett Braves, and he says Freeman is ready to go.

Look into my eyes.  You will get nothing and like it!

It's not the long ball, it's the arms

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says if the Atlanta Braves are still playing in October, it will be the arms, not the bats, that will lead them there.

It may have cost you nothing to watch the Dave Mathews Band at the Big Dance free concert series, but do you really think he, like the basketball players, performed for free?

Thanks for the millions guys, now hit the books

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says the obscene amount of money made over this past Final Four weekend sheds new light on the "student athlete."

The Big Dance: Clunk! Bonk! Brick!

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says Thursday's second round of the NCAA Tournament was a shooter's nightmare.

I agree with you, coach Fox.  More than you will ever know.

And then there was...Mercer?

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone wonders why the schools from Georgia can't prosper in the post season in college basketball.

No thank-you very much

A hoop-less two days

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says he will NOT be in front of his television this weekend watching college basketball. Has he lost his edge as a sports guy?

A Final Four without Kansas?  Without Kentucky?  Without Duke?  Without Syracuse?  It could happen this time around.

An interesting four weeks on tap

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says in the midst of all this so-called "bad college basketball," we may have more than one bracket buster make it to the Final Four. And that would be fun.

Kentucky meets the best players in the SEC; the Dawgs' Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (1)

For the Big Blue Nation, the sky is falling

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says the real fun of the Georgia win over Kentucky started on the way home from Athens.

Ready...Set...Scam...

WSB's Sports Director Tony Schiavone can't decide what was worse, seeing Dennis Rodman tell George Stephanopoulos, "Don't hate me," or watching Lauren Silberman set women athletes back 1,000 years.

It wasn't Brazil against Spain in soccer, but Israel beat South Africa in the World Baseball Classic qualifier in Jupiter (the Florida city, not the planet) this past fall.

The WBC has admirable efforts

Before you turn up your nose at the World Baseball Classic, here’s an argument in favor of it.

Ugh.

A good sports weekend for a miserable month

Not many weekends in the miserable month of February give us as much to cheer for (or against) like what transpired over the past few days.

Fans can also capture the workouts from a unique perspective.

Let the (Braves!) games begin

Fans this weekend will get their first chance to see the "new" Atlanta Braves outfield of Up, Up and Hey.  Yes, there is plenty of excitement in seeing B.J. and Justin Upton roaming the green along with Jason Heyward.  And based on the numbers all three bring with them, the ...

Local Catholic leaders and parishioners are stunned

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI surprised a lot of Catholics on Monday morning.  Father Frank McNamee, Pastor of Cathedral of Christ the King in Buckhead, tells WSB's Richard Sangster, the news stunned him,  "This morning when I went down to make a cup of coffee, and Monseigneur Richard Lopez ...

It could get dicey out there today

Meteorologist Kirk Mellish says the severe weather today could not only bring heavy rain, thunderstorms and damaging winds, but the bad stuff could actually "sneak-up" on us without much warning. "Strong winds can come with downpours even without lightning or thunder, so you may not have the usual notice from ...

Torres is charged with one count of Disruption of a Public School and has been booked into the Hall County Jail where she remains under a $1000 bond.

Arrest in Flowery Branch HS social media threat

Hall County Sheriff's Office investigators have arrested 18-year-old Tiffani Torres of Flowery Branch in connection with a social media incident that occured at Flowery Branch High School Monday. According to the sheriff's office, officials were called into Flowery Branch High School on Monday when Torres allegedly posted on the social ...

The Braves get their man

The Braves have collected the final piece of their outfield puzzle for 2013 and beyond.  The Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks have agreed to a deal to bring Justin Upton to Atlanta. In return the Braves will send Martin Prado, right-handed pitcher Randall Delgado, minor league infielders Nick Ahmed and Brandon ...

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