Four former Georgia Tech football players said they’ve spent the past month working on becoming faster and improving their skills at performance camps around the country in preparation for the NFL Scouting Combine, which starts Wednesday in …

The Falcons’ braintrust has been holed up in the Flowery Branch facilities, poring over video, sipping energy drinks and re-arranging names on their 2010 draft board. Sue Ogrocki, ASSOCIATED PRESS Oklahoma State corner would satisfy the Falcons …

Every year, for the last five years. A player hits the skids at the trade deadline, he’s either promptly or eventually bought out by his new team, and after a league-mandated 30-day wait, he heads back to the team that traded him for a nominal fee …

Stephen Curry scored 32 points and made the go-ahead free throw in the final minute after a technical foul on Jamal Crawford to help the Golden State Warriors rally from an 18-point deficit and beat the Atlanta Hawks 108-104 on Sunday night. Playing …

Joe Johnson scored 28 points and Josh Smith added 18 as the Atlanta Hawks won in Utah for the first time in 17 years, beating the short-handed Jazz 105-100 on Monday night. Johnson scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, including a 3-pointer with 2 …

SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe the Utah Jazz need to request some more road games. A night after rallying from down 25 to stun Portland in overtime, the Jazz returned home and lost their second straight at EnergySolutions Arena — falling 105-100 to the …

ATLANTA (AP) – The zebra that created a stir in Atlanta when he broke loose from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus area late Thursday afternoon is at UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine and is fine. Circus spokeswoman Crystal Drake says …

You might wake up to a few snow flurries Wednesday morning, but don’t plan on building a snowman, as accumulations will be light — if at all.

KENNESAW – A Kennesaw-based call center operator contracting with the upcoming 2010 Census will bring more than 1,400 temporary jobs to Georgia.

Two companies – one based in Georgia, the other in North Carolina – have been cited for contributing to the conditions that led a worker to fall 90 feet to his death while working on a New Hampshire water tower in August.

Fort Stewart — Soldiers from Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team returned to a hero’s welcome here early Tuesday morning after spending a year in Afghanistan training that country’s police and security forces.

Damon also was courted by the Chicago White Sox and Atlanta Braves since leaving the world champion New York Yankees as a free agent. He batted .282 with 24 homers for the Yankees last season and is expected to lead off for the Tigers.

Chargers release Tomlinson: LaDainian Tomlinson was released Monday by the San Diego Chargers, ending a brilliant nine-year run in which he became one of the NFL’s greatest running backs. The move had been expected for some time. Tomlinson, who …

Sunday, when Crawford’s Atlanta Hawks visited the Warriors (one of his three former teams), he played in his 650th career game — more than any current player who has yet to reach the postseason. No need for any calculations on your part.

Nearly nine months after the sudden resignation of its president and chief operating officer, Synovus Financial Corp. named a successor Monday. Kessel D. Stelling Jr. now becomes second in command of the Southeastern banking firm, filling the …