11-Year-Old Sinks Half-Courter For Pizza

((HT: Kennesaw State Athletics))

And this wasn't like the Indianapolis Ice game, either...

Here's 11-year-old Cody Collins knocking down a half-courter for a year's worth of pizza...

The HQ hears Tony Ingle is keeping an eye on this kid for the foreseeable future

Georgia Tech loses to Kennesaw St.--ACC Basketball, you have issues too.

Kennesaw St hoops/Courtesy: Curtis Compton-AJC.com

We find this humorous because we used to work down there, have covered both teams and know the situations involved.

Georgia Tech, a one-time ACC Basketball contender has been for the most part reduced to ACC bystander these days. However, nobody could've seen (well, maybe those who saw them barely beat Clark Atl last week), that they would lose not only to an Atlantic Sun team, but not even a "Top Flight" Atlantic Sun team.

Yes, you are correct, Kennesaw St. beat Georgia Tech......by 17 (80-63).

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We congratulate coach Tony Ingle and his Owls and it sounds like they may still be celebrating in Kennesaw. Generally, games like this are a favor from the local powerhouse, to the local small school. But...we suspect that might change.

This also foreshadows some other potential ACC Basketball issues. Sure, North Carolina and Duke will be good. Virginia Tech will be decent with Malcom Delaney. But....Wake Forest lost by 10 to Atlantic Sun bottom dweller Stetson. Va. Tech barely beat A-Sun member Campbell and even North Carolina struggled with A-Sun team Lipscomb.

Hmmm. Maybe the A-Sun should call ESPN, they might be a better fit for the ACC/Big 10 showdown then either the ACC or...the Big 10.

Here is some Ga.Tech post game where they try and figure out what just happened. Thanks RamblinWreckTube/YouTube:

Dooley Bringing Football To Another Georgia School, Thinks He's In Manhattan...

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But will he add black and gold to his recently expanding wardrobe of orange, red, and black...???

Kennesaw State University, just north of Atlanta, has decided to start a football program by 2014

KSU President Daniel Papp said in the press conference announcing the venture that football will "increase and expand national recognition of the institution, highlight important work taking place on campus in teaching, research, scholarship, creative activities and service."

The Owls will play in the FCS ((or Division I-AA whichever floats your boat))...

They'll play in their current soccer-only facility on campus that is the home of the WPS Atlanta Beat franchise.

Vince Dooley has been a consultant on the project, and the university is going to follow Dooley's advice in the process all the way to its logical conclusion...

And, apparently, Dooley has Bill Snyder on the mind for his new coach...
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Former A-Sun Star Killed In Shooting

Officials in DeKalb County ((suburban Atlanta, Georgia)) say Shuan Stegall, a top scorer and rebounder on Kennesaw State University's basketball team a few years ago, has been shot to death at his father's home.

DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish says the 25-year-old tried to intervene in a dispute between his father, Gerald Stegall Sr., and two other men on Saturday and was shot repeatedly. Parish says the younger Stegall was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Stegall averaged 13 points and seven rebounds a game in 78 games for the Owls from 2004-08. He led the team in rebounds in his last two seasons.

Stegall played professionally in England for the Cheshire Jets and then in Syria for Al Ittihad Aleppo.

Parish says the suspects in the shooting remain at large.

Here's the video version, thanks to our friends at 11Alive...
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