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Tony Schiavone's Sports Blog

Tony Schiavone's Sports Blog 

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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."

"Yeah, I'm in the back, but I'm still covering the event.  So there!"

A Saturday to remember

WSB Sports Director Tony Schiavone says covering the G-Day game and the Final Four in the same day is the stuff of dreams for a sports fan.

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.

Teheran Pitches Way Beyond His 20 Years

Triple-A baseball is a funny thing.  So many good players that are not good enough for the big leagues.  In my three years of traveling with and doing play by play for the Gwinnett Braves, I have seen so many quality players who have gone on to be a bust ...

A 30 Year Love Affair

Thirty years ago this baseball season, my life changed forever.  Fresh out of college, I had applied for many minor league baseball play-by-play jobs.  I got one response.  It was from Greensboro in the South Atlantic League.  The “Hornets,” as they were known at that time, were the Class A ...

The Farm Up I-85

I love Coolray Field in Lawrenceville, and it’s not just because I’m beginning my third season as the play by play voice of the Gwinnett Braves.  There are many reasons to love the ballpark that sits on Buford Drive just east of the Mall of Georgia. To begin with, General ...

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