September 2009
OSR ARCHIVES
TODAY'S REPORTS |
| | | | OSR 9/4/2009 | | YES, CLEMSON TICKETS AVAILABLE | | ATLANTA -- Great as game-day mornings and afternoons are on The Flats, there's something special about night games in Bobby Do... |
| | | | | | | OSR 9/4/2009 | | GOING DIGITAL THIS WEEKEND! | | If you can't make it to Bobby Dodd Stadium Saturday to watch the Yellow Jackets open the season against Jacksonville State, th... |
| | | | OSR 9/4/2009 | | INTRODUCING THE OSR STING EXTRA | | Dear Yellow Jacket Fan:We are very proud to inform you of a tremendous opportunity for you to get closer to Georgia Tech sports th... |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
- 9.5, Football Is Here!, vs. Jackson State, 1:00pm
- 9.5, Volleyball, vs. Ohio, 3:00pm
- 9.5, Volleyball, vs. Northern Illinois, 8:00pm
- 9.10, Football, vs. Clemson, 7:30pm
- 9.11, Volleyball, vs. Miss/SE MO, 4:30pm
- 9.11, Volleyball, vs. Clemson, 7:00pm
- 9.11-9.13, Golf, Carpet Capital Collegiate
- 9.17, Football, @ Miami, 7:00pm
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| Full Steam Ahead - 2009 |
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Know You Jackets: Nesbitt
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Official Sports Report: September 04, 2009
It's Time To Jump On Board The Official Sports Report "Sting Extra"
Managing editor Matt Winkeljohn welcomes you to OSR Sting Extra |
by Matt Winkeljohn, Managing Editor
ATLANTA – So you just opened another e-mail, and given that you're already fired up because toe meets leather in mere days at Georgia Tech -- and anything relating to the Yellow Jackets triggers a special tingling in your soul -- it is with great excitement that you're wondering what you're currently reading.
Hold that emotion. Actually, we hope we can keep your attention six days per week with the OSR Sting Extra, an offspring of the "Sting" newsletter that you receive on Thursdays.
The goal is to drop this baby in your inbox the rest of the week and year-round. Given all that is great happening on The Flats, some of it scarcely noticed by mainstream and even Tech-specific media, we have something special to work with.
We'll typically offer two to five or perhaps six stories a day, often featuring student-athletes and coaches in ways that hopefully will personalize them a little more than what you find in other places.
But, we'll try to cut a wide swath.
Today, for example, there is a story about Josh Nesbitt growing up. The Jackets' quarterback has a better understanding of head coach Paul Johnson's offense, which is to be expected as he enters his second year in it, but his emergence as a more vocal leader might matter even more.
Tech beat Georgia Friday in the first athletic event of the school year as the volleyball team edged the "Pooches down the road" -- to use a phrase uttered recently by legendary Tech alum John Imlay – in the debut of new coach Tonya Johnson. As Kristy Rivero wrote (see archived article), Johnson was uber successful at Texas in leading the Longhorns to the Final Four last season and the elite eight twice before that.
Later this week, we'll take a look at perhaps the most unexpected starter in recent Tech football history. Kevin Cone, a wide receiver, is a transfer. No shock there. But get this: he came from Shorter College, transferring not primarily to play football, but rather because he wants to be an engineer!
There will also be a story by Jon Cooper about Tech pitcher Kevin Jacobs, who used his 99 mph fastball to blow away hitters over the summer up in Alaska, where – despite round-the-clock sun – he had a hard time staying warm.
Wes Durham, the voice of the Yellow Jackets, and occasionally others will climb aboard and help drive the written Wreck once in a while.
Your primary pilot is a transfer of sorts, and some of you know me. I certainly remember your passionate e-mails. I covered the Jackets for a few years for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, or the AUC as many of you preferred, before taking a buyout last year. Newspapers have changed. Media morphs almost weekly, it seems. I'm largely the same, but this format allows more latitude to write stories on my terms. Occasionally, I may go analytical on you, try to "break it down," as Nesbitt said former teammate Darryl Richard tells him in advising him how to move into a leadership role.
But with a Tech graduate in my house, great admiration for the Jacket way, and the knowledge that you have options aplenty if you were not to favor the tone here, my goal will not be to shine blinding light so much as to cast an almost always warm glow.
The coaches and student-athletes on the Flats figure to make it easy.
I hope you'll jump on and ride a while. Welcome to the Official Sports Report Sting Extra.
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