Word has it that Tom Glavine, baseball’s only active 300-game winner since the retirement of Greg Maddux, is a bit disappointed with the Braves’ one-year, less-than-$2 million offer (with no incentives). Said Glavine to the AJC in a Saturday report, “Assuming I’m healthy—which right now there’s not a reason I won’t be—there’s a lot of upside having me in that [fifth starter] slot.”
According to the Journal-Constitution, Glavine is not yet entertaining other offers and would like to stay in Atlanta.
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The Hawks took a drubbing at Philips Arena Saturday night, falling by 24 points to the lowly Clippers. Joe Johnson was back in the lineup after an illness, but Mike Bibby was out after sustaining an ankle injury on Friday night. Let’s hope Bibby and Joe (as well as Al Horford, who came back not long ago after an ankle injury) can work in some rest during the upcoming All-Star weekend, even though all three will be participants (Johnson in the All-Star Game, Bibby in the 3-point Shootout and Horford in the Rookie-Sophomore Game).
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It’s been an eventful day for UGA athletics. First, there was the saddening news of the passing of Jim Wilson, a star lineman under Vince Dooley who later played for the Atlanta Falcons (see this breaking news item for more). There was the irritating news of the men’s hoops team’s 10th loss in a row. But there was some heartening post-National Signing Day news for those Bulldog football junkies. The Dawgs are still holding out hope that two high-profile high school prospects—Tampa tight end Orson Charles and South Carolina defensive tackle Kwame Geathers—would sign on late with the program. It would seem that the Dawgs still have a great shot at both given their ties—Charles is the high school teammate of Georgia signee Aaron Murray, and Geathers’ older brother, Robert, is a former UGA standout. Read the AJC’s Michael Carvell’s writeup on the situation. … O-line coach Stacy Searels has received a promotion, from simply “o-line coach” to “running game coordinator”. There was a time in December when it looked as if Searels might take a job at his alma mater, Auburn, after new head coach Gene Chizik offered him the o-line job, which he declined (Searels was a former lineman at Auburn).
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It’s great to see a young athlete from the area making a name for herself on the international stage. Marietta’s Melanie Oudin, a rising star in the professional tennis ranks at only 17 years of age, was chosen as the United States’ No. 2 player in the Fed Cup. Oudin lost to Argentinian Gisela Dulko in the first round on Saturday, but you’re sure to hear more about this up-and-comer in ’09. Our own Fletcher Proctor profiled Oudin in our print edition in September, and we covered the October Advanta WTT Smash Hits charity event in which she participated (alongside Andy Roddick, Billy Jean King and Elton John, no less).
Ewalt can be reached at aewalt@scoreatl.com.
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