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Alabama football coach Nick Saban was among a handful of sports figures from West Virginia to sign a letter urging Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, to support the passage of the Freedom to Vote Act.The letter, which was made public on Monday, also was signed by NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, former West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck, former NFL All-Pro Darryl Talley and former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue.

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On Sept. 3, Georgia will host Boise State in football, the most anticipated game in Boise State history. Starting for Boise will be sophomore guard Tad Miller. Tad's father, Dan, is a retired police lieutenant who currently works in Iraq training Iraqi police officers. Dan is planning to fly halfway around the world, at the cost of $2,700, to make the big game. All of this was detailed in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article last week and when Georgia fan Sam Hendrix read it online, he had an idea. "It hit me that he shouldn't have to bear the cost of...

Pollack passes on Playboy By MARK SCHLABACH Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Athens -- While helping Georgia win its first SEC championship in 20 years last season, David Pollack's popularity escalated from obscurity to college football cover boy. But the Bulldogs' star defensive end won't be posing for Playboy magazine. Pollack, the 2002 SEC Player of the Year, turned down an offer to pose for Playboy's All-America football team, which will be published in the August edition of the magazine. Pollack was among 22 players invited to the weeklong photo shoot in California earlier this month. Pollack said he declined the...

Leave it to a Georgia boy to go all the way to Iraq to act like a dog. A Bulldog, that is, and a good one, according to scores of Georgia fans. Capt. Chris Carter became the pride of the Bulldog Nation early Monday morning when a news crew filmed him and Col. David Perkins - two Georgia graduates with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division - unfurling a University of Georgia flag outside one of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's Baghdad palaces. Already the word "hero" had been attached to Carter's name. He led an effort to save an injured Iraqi...