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Auburn Tree Poisoning and 5 Other Pranks Born of College Rivalries

College rivalries are the stuff of legend, but some Southern football fans may have taken things too far with a recent prank. A University of Alabama fan stands accused of poisoning -- yes, poisoning -- 130-year-old trees at Toomer's Corner, a famous intersection where the Auburn University campus meets the town. A man...

Pentagon-Funded Researchers Create Deceptive Robots

(Sept. 16) -- "All war is based on deception," says a famous quote attributed to Sun Tzu, the renowned Chinese military strategist. So perhaps it's not surprising that as robots are being increasingly used in modern warfare, the Pentagon would want to teach them how to deceive the enemy. Now, military-funded researchers...

Austin Jackson Gave Up Hoop Dreams for Baseball

LAKELAND, Fla. -- This time of year brings to mind what might have been for Austin Jackson. The Tigers outfielder played baseball and basketball in high school. His senior year, in response to critics who told him he should quit basketball to focus on baseball, he worked so hard at hoops that he earned a scholarship to...

NCAA Baseball Tournaments to Determine National Seeds, Host Sites

A two-time draft selection at Georgia Tech, Luke Murton returned for his senior baseball season to enjoy the college experience and improve his draft status. The first has been accomplished and the second will be determined in next month's major-league amateur draft.At the moment, however, Murton and teammates are not...

ACC Tournament Preview: Still Crazy After All These Years

Before March was mad, the ACC was already basketball crazy.Since 1955, the granddaddy of all conference tournaments has put one heck of an exclamation point on the end of the season, the twist ending to an Oscar-worthy film. Even in an era when six bids out of the league are as routine as Billy Packer ripping apart...

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The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly called Georgia Tech, Tech, and GT) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.

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