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The Shot Clock: Georgia High School Athletics Left Behind

By JEFFREY BENEDICT No child left behind is the motto for most educators, parents and state educational boards. However, this is not the case with Georgia high school athletics. High school is a time to prepare the students for college … Continue reading

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KSU Ice Hockey Team Lacks Support Despite Success

By AMANDA CHAPMAN Starting late in the evening every Friday and Saturday night you can feel the energy of the Kennesaw State University ice hockey team getting fired up in the small rink a mile away from campus. When you … Continue reading

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Fifth-Third Bank Backs KSU Football Team, University

By ROBERT PLESS In a history-making decision for the university, Kennesaw State University received the green light from the Board of Regents to create a football team with financial backing from Cincinnati-based Fifth-Third Bank, which hopes to help KSU grow … Continue reading

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Kennesaw State’s Club Baseball Team Aims to go all the Way in 2013

By WILLIAM GLASS The club baseball team of Kennesaw State University is revamped and ready to finish what it started in 2012 — win the Division II National Club Baseball Association championship. Coming to within just one game of the … Continue reading

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Company Strives to Produce Next-Level Talent

By ANDREW REINERTSEN AllStar Baseball & Softball Virtual Cages is a small business owned and operated in Peachtree City, Georgia. Owners John Powers and Trey Smith both had a vision of what could be when they opened their doors in … Continue reading

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Inaugural Season Of Club Football at KSU

By BOBBY SCHWARZ Football has made its way to Kennesaw State University as club football has kicked off its inaugural season this fall. Danny Payne, a senior sports management major, and president of KSU Club Football, was one of three … Continue reading

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Social Media: Stepping Up to the Plate

By EMILY MCGEE Social Media has become part of our everyday life and is now, more than ever, proving to become one of the leading factors in job searches. Two baseball players, Michael Bourn of the Atlanta Braves and David … Continue reading

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New Direction for KSU Homecoming 2012

By TERRENCE MCTIER KENNESAW, Ga. — Kennesaw State University’s new NestFest Homecoming Committee is under new management and it has made changes for the fall of 2012 school year. NestFest recently received a facelift from the university and the Student … Continue reading

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Owls on a Roll

BY: Rory Keown The 2012 Kennesaw State University Men’s Lacrosse team wrapped up the regular season with a win over arch rival Tennessee Wesleyan College. The two teams squared off last Friday night in a match that seemed like either … Continue reading

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Chipper Jones Final Go

BY: Matthew Genovese Chipper Jones has always been an outstanding ball player and even more impressively he has always been in the same uniform every time he steps on the field to go to work. Jones was drafted in 1990 1st … Continue reading

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