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Despite Repeated Fumbles, Georgia Republicans Say They’re Sticking With Walker
ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans knew for months before Herschel Walker launched his Senate campaign that he would be a huge risk in one of the party’s most pivotal races. Just how much of a risk has become clear to many of them in recent weeks. Mr. Walker has blundered through an array of missteps and […]
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Herschel Walker’s Senate Bid in Georgia Is Powered by Fandom
LaGRANGE, Ga. — Most came dressed in University of Georgia jerseys, hats and T-shirts. Some carried footballs and framed posters. It was a campaign stop for a Senate candidate, but for many Georgians who came to see Herschel Walker, politics was hardly the only draw. “It’s ‘Herschel, Herschel, Herschel’ — he doesn’t even have to […]
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Georgia Knocks Off Alabama to Win National Championship
INDIANAPOLIS — If this is a new era of college football, with its sandlot schemes, pyrotechnic offensives and analytics dictating that fourth down isn’t for punts or field goals, the sport was dragged back to an earlier time on Monday night. Back to football’s prehistoric age, when championships were won with chin-strap busting defenses, offenses […]
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College Football Gets Its Inevitable Georgia-Alabama Title Rematch
Georgia, the defensive mammoth, and Alabama, the perennial juggernaut, seemed to be on a collision course to the top of college football all season. They got a shot at each other in the Southeastern Conference championship in December — a game in which the Bulldogs barely resembled the behemoth they’d been from their first game. […]
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Renewed Georgia Pummels Michigan to Reach the National Title Game
On Georgia’s second drive, Bennett completed three passes before a successful handoff to Kenny McIntosh, a junior tailback. McIntosh ran a bit, mostly toward the sideline, before he lifted his right arm and lofted a pass toward the end zone. Mitchell caught the 18-yard throw on the maize-stained “A” in Michigan’s block lettering in the […]
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With Exasperation, College Football Is Just Trying to Get Through the Playoff
In this malleable, ebb-and-flow pandemic world, there may be one certainty gleaned from the last nearly two years of living with the coronavirus: that here and there may not look very much alike. When New York City was all sirens, silence and grim isolation during the first wave of the pandemic, it was easy for […]
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Alabama, Michigan, Georgia and Cincinnati Make College Football Playoff
Kirby Smart, Georgia’s coach, signaled Sunday that he remained supportive of Stetson Bennett IV, who was 29 for 48 with two interceptions against Alabama. “Obviously, we have to play better in a lot of areas, but to put any part of that blame, or all of that blame, on Stetson, there’s a lot more to […]
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