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Falcons draft center Peter Konz, OT Lamar Holmes

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FLOWERY BRANCH - Most of the folks in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin bleed green and gold and are devout Packers fans.

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The Atlanta Falcons just drafted an offensive tackle, but I don’t think you can go ahead and pencil in Lamar Holmes as an instant replacement for Sam Baker at left tackle. The Falcons took Holmes out of Southern Mississippi with a third-round pick (No. …

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FLOWERY BRANCH - Most of the folks in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin bleed green and gold and are devout Packers fans.

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As it turns out, the Atlanta Falcons aren’t planning to jump over that playoff hurdle that’s been talked so much about. They simply plan to plow right through it. The latest evidence came Friday night when the Falcons used their second-round draft pic…

Matt Loede, falconsgab.com

By Jake Saltzman The Atlanta Falcons were rumored to have had interest in drafting a center in the draft, despite the fact that Joe Hawley has done well in limited action behind Todd McClure. Little did they know Wisconsin’s Peter Konz, the highest rate…

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We’ve got some second-round developments in the NFC South. The Atlanta Falcons just used their second-round pick (No. 55 overall) on Wisconsin offensive lineman Peter Konz and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers continued to be aggressive by trading back into the …

D. Orlando Ledbetter, ajc.com

Falcons selected Peter Konz in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday. (Associated Press) FLOWERY BRANCH - With their first pick, the Falcons selected former Wisconsin center Peter Konz in the second round (55th overall) of the NFL draft on Frid

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Josh Smith can still come across as nothing more than a big kid.

Ball Don't Lie Staff, yahoo.com

The 66-game regular season, mercifully, is over. The NBA jam-packed 66 games into a space where 50 usually went, and the result was a strange five-month run that had us talking about rested legs and oddball rotations more than we spoke of learning and g…

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The Atlanta Hawks' Ivan Johnson and the Denver Nuggets' Kenneth Faried were today named the NBA Eastern and Western Conference Rookies of the Month, respectively, for games played in April.

Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com

Kevin Garnett has never been one to mince words, and the Celtics as as group have only made it this far (into the fifth year of a three-year plan as the most dangerous sleeper in the East) because they just don’t care what anyone else thinks. They have …

Benjamin Hoffman, nytimes.com

Looking ahead to the first-round playoff matchups in the Eastern Conference.

Looking ahead to Day 2

Apr 27, 2012

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The second round of the draft is shaping up to be a very quiet one for the NFC South. At the moment, the Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons are the only two teams with picks in the round. The Panthers have No. 40 overall, and the Falcons have No. 55.…

Iam Thomsen, CNNSI.com

The Celtics were guaranteed a No. 4 seed as champion of the Atlantic division, but the No. 5 Hawks' superior record provides them with home-court advantage -- and with it, they believe they have a chance to earn what could be their most satisfying posts…

Dime Magazine, dimemag.com

Normally, we’d start a 13-game night off with some recaps, but since the average margin of victory across the NBA last night was like 87 points, it felt good just to look forward to the weekend. The regular season is over and the matchups are set. In th…