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Atlanta Sports News and Rumors

Is Chipper Jones Getting Fat Again?

Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com

Chipper Jones joined the Braves on Saturday to spend a few days hanging around the team's spring training complex as a "special instructor," which is baseball-speak for "old guy who stands around leaning on a fungo bat and spitting seeds.…

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

Chipper Jones hears the talk, the whispers, the rumblings out there that if the Atlanta Braves need him in June, he's a poetic comeback story waiting to happen. His response Monday to that kind of talk: "It's not gonna happen."

Peter King, CNNSI.com

So we're at the official beginning of draft season, with the annual Scouting Combine starting later this week in Indianapolis. Here's what we know as the 333 college prospects pack for the Heartland:

CNNSI.com

It's the start of draft hype season. The stakes are always high at the Combine, but in a draft short on sure-things, some have more on the line than others, Peter King writes.