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With the loss of Charlie Morton to a broken leg, Max Fried now is the grizzled postseason vet of the Braves staff. That's even more weight shifting to slender shoulders. In Fried’s first World Series start, he buckled a bit. https://t.co/IR0cp8AsLK https://t.co/IR0cp8AsLK

At 66, not only does Brian Snitker finally get to manage his first World Series, but he also gets to do so while looking across the field at his son, Troy, an Astros hitting coach. https://t.co/60faS7Hiv2

Once the Falcons took that 8-point lead at the start of the final quarter, they did little smartly or well. https://t.co/2khDSCSFtW

For much of Sunday, it was more of the same offensive somnambulism that the Falcons had displayed in the season’s first two games while scoring fewer points than only two other teams in the league https://t.co/U4QRaIgr5c https://t.co/U4QRaIgr5c

As Georgia ventures into SEC play this weekend, a warning: Teams in the rearview mirror are closer than they appear. Getting through the next two months unmarked on the way to a presumptive reckoning with Alabama is not the given it once seemed https://t.co/ZQUJW7LdoJ

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For his new head coach, the best that can be said is that he only had this one chance to make a first impression. https://t.co/P593DYG4mJ

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Nobody, you see, is comparing Tech running back with a plowhorse or chopped liver or plain vanilla. Expectations are far more exotic than that. https://t.co/NIwWaGTkey

Don’t call him Brooks Koepka. But feel free to call me that anytime. Koepka looks like a movie star, has a golf game kissed by the gods and has cleared nearly $37 million playing a game. Yeah, I’ve been called worse. https://t.co/DxoMCS6EfO https://t.co/DxoMCS6EfO

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The quiet guy will be the one pursued when play begins Thursday at East Lake. And Cantlay, the Tour’s only three-time winner this year, won’t be easy to run down https://t.co/tkIgtFIsfu https://t.co/tkIgtFIsfu

Addressing the golfers preparing to play in the first Gene Siller Memorial Red Pants Pro-Am Tournament at Pinetree, Ashley Siller said the man in the red pants she remembers always will be a family man in full, with everything to live for. https://t.co/0PstaYPnm8

It’s been a nice ride down Creampuff Lane, but it’s time to return to the hard work of winning a division. https://t.co/q3SxihS2ky

The firm of Freeman, Albies, Swanson and Riley is now a leader in its field - the infield. And as it rises to eminence in the National League, so, too, it’s fervently believed, will the Braves. It’s kind of a package deal. https://t.co/IGN4LoJrxt https://t.co/IGN4LoJrxt

Some science – when it’s not life and death – needs denying. Like when a questioner mentioned to Brian Snitker Sunday that defensive metrics don’t always treat his third-baseman kindly. https://t.co/L6yIZd8zxz

The last of the great Southern personalities in the college coaching business, Bobby Bowden, has died. Hard to imagine in the landscape of the game today another like him passing this way again. https://t.co/RbzF2TzyeV