“Atlanta” on The Daily Caller

Several states across the South braced Sunday for a major winter storm that was expected to bring snow and freezing rain, disrupting air travel and inaugural activities for Georgia’s new governor. (more)

Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane has been committed to a mental facility after being deemed unfit to attend a probation hearing. (more)

These Marines have their Times Square marching orders for matrimony – and they couldn’t be happier. (more)

ATLANTA (AP) — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints showed the high-flying Atlanta Falcons they’re not ready to give up their crown just yet. (more)

It is going to take awhile to think about the Phillies as the overlords of baseball, the team that can outspend and outrecruit all of the others. (more)

HALL COUNTY, Ga. — Police arrested a man who stole a Salvation Army kettle, uniform and bell early Tuesday morning. (more)

As NFL teams jostle down the stretch with the finish line fast approaching, several division grudge matches loom large in Week 13, games that will help shape the playoff picture. (more)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama-Auburn has always been one of the most storied rivalries in college football, in a class with Ohio State-Michigan, Texas-Oklahoma and Florida-Georgia as the best in the country. (more)

PHILADELPHIA — Expectations seemed impossibly high for Roy Halladay in 2010. (more)

ATLANTA — Residents in Adamsville said dead carcasses have been showing up at the intersection of Fairburn Place and Adkins Road for more than a year. (more)

CNN anchor Kyra Phillips’ pregnancy with John Roberts could bring big changes at “American Morning,” insiders say. Roberts, who broadcasts from New York, is likely to move to Atlanta to be with his fiancée, who’s expecting twins. Since CNN ex-president Jon Klein recently rebuilt the prime-time lineup, insiders say his replacement, Ken Jautz, will focus on daytime, and his first step will be to dismantle “American Morning,” the lowest-rated cable morning show. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — The beautiful thing about Matt Cain is there’s nothing vague about him, nothing obscure, nothing theoretical. Ask him a question, he gives you an answer. Approach him with something offbeat, and he has nothing to say. “Haven’t thought about it.” Give him a baseball, he pitches it directly — fastball, curveball, slider, change-up — until the manager takes the baseball away from him. (more)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cody Ross joked it was easy for San Francisco Giants fans to chant “Cody! Cody!” during his stellar postseason because his name was only two syllables. (more)

IF YOU combined the Eagles’ quarterbacks into “Michael Kolb,” as Andy Reid jokingly did after Sunday’s game, you’d get a 64.7 percent completion rate, 1,603 passing yards through six games, 11 touchdowns, two interceptions and a 103.3 passer rating – which would rank this mythical QB second in the NFL, behind only Peyton Manning. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Giants manager Bruce Bochy is planning to tweak his rotation for the NL championship series, moving up left-hander Jonathan Sanchez to go Game 2 against the Philadelphia Phillies following ace Tim Lincecum. (more)

ATLANTA — Bobby Cox bit his lip, trying to stifle any tears that wanted to drip out. He was forced to change the subject to keep from becoming too emotional in his last news conference as the Atlanta manager. (more)

CINCINNATI – If it all looked so familiar, well, there was good reason. (more)

Last week, I struggled to 7-7, now 35-27 overall. Some unusual match-ups this week. (more)

The Braves and Giants are both built on the bedrock of great pitching. Of their seven meetings, of which the Braves won four, not a single game had more than nine runs scored — combined. In their most recent four-game series in Atlanta two months ago, the Braves took three of four in low-scoring fashion, winning 3-2, 3-0 and 6-3 while losing 3-2 in 11 innings. (more)

It turns out, after all the shout and tumult, the major award races aren’t as difficult or controversial as you were led to believe weeks ago. It’s amazing how much clearer issues become when you actually wait for the season to play out and postseason berths to be decided. Imagine that. (more)