Cover story: I.J. Rosenberg writes about the Atlanta Sports Council and how Gary Stokan and company brought next week’s Alabama-Clemson football game to the Georgia Dome. The Council is planning on making the opening-weekend matchup a yearly happening, what Stokan calls “the Daytona 500 of college football.”
In this issue: Golf columnist Courtney Capps breaks down the FedExCup playoffs, which culminate in the TOUR Championship in Atlanta. 790 The Zone personality Chuck Oliver discusses why the SEC has been even more dominant in the last twenty years than in the decades before, and Kevin Dankosky explains why Michael Phelps is more than just the greatest Olympian in history.