Smith Feels Abraham Will Start Sunday Vs NinersMatt Loede, falconsgab.com The Falcons are making contingency plans in case defensive end John Abraham is unable to play at full capacity in Sunday’s NFC title game against San Francisco. Abraham, the NFL’s active sacks leader, missed practice Wednesday with a sprained left ank… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Jeff Teague had a career-high 28 points and 11 assists, Zaza Pachulia finished two assists shy of a triple-double and the short-handed Atlanta Hawks beat Brooklyn 109-95 on Wednesday night to stop the Nets' seven-game winning streak. |
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Mike Mazzeo, ESPN.com Brooklyn Nets small forward Gerald Wallace returned Wednesday night against the Atlanta Hawks, but did not start. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith said that he expects defensive end John Abraham will play in Sunday's NFC title game. |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com The Falcons didn’t do a great job of putting hands on Russell Wilson last weekend, but they’re vowing to make sure 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick doesn’t treat them the same way. “If you get the opportunity to blow up somebody and make a state… |
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Mark Bowman, MLB.com The Braves are less than a month away from staging their first Spring Training workouts in Florida. But some of the club's pitchers will get an early start when they come to Turner Field to participate in a voluntary early throwing program next week. |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com The 49ers might be road favorites this weekend against the Falcons in the NFC Championship Game, but coach Jim Harbaugh took a step to remind his players that many of them were underdogs not that long ago. As a motivational ploy, Harbaugh had photos pul… |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com After an embarrassing 39-point loss to the Chicago Bulls on Monday in which his team scored just five points in the second quarter and 20 in the first half, Atlanta Hawks head coach Larry Drew promised to "shake things up" with his flagging sq… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Mike Nolan knows a thing or two about the San Francisco 49ers. His father coached the team and he did, too. And now, he'll try to keep them out of the Super Bowl. |
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The Atlanta Falcons just put out their release for Sunday’s NFC Championship Game and there’s one page that jumped out at me. It’s the one that breaks down Mike Smith’s 56-24 record in his first five seasons. We already know that’s the second-be… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com As the Falcons were in the process of blowing a 20-point lead against the Seahawks on Sunday, I wondered aloud on Twitter whether anyone, everyone, or no one would be fired if the Falcons lost. In the end, the Falcons survived (in case you hadn’t heard)… |
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As the media waited to hear from coach Mike Smith after Atlanta’s victory against Seattle this past Sunday, a television played in the news conference room next to the Falcons’ locker room in the Georgia Dome. Falcons owner Arthur Blank was waiting wi… |
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