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Blank to have Atlanta team in TGL high-tech golf league
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Blank to have Atlanta team in TGL high-tech golf league

  • CHARLES ODUM Associated Press
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Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is purchasing one of six teams in Tiger Woods' new high-tech TGL golf league scheduled to launch in January. Blank also owns MLS Atlanta United and the PGA TOUR Superstore. He said he was drawn to the golf league's potential to attract new fans with its interaction of tech and live action in a prime-time weekly format. Woods, Rory McIlroy and former Golf Channel president Mike McCarley founded the league which will have six teams and 18 players. Teams in Los Angeles and Boston previously were unveiled. The PGA Tour has partnered with the TGL.

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How Mercedes-Benz Stadium was transformed for the Super Bowl

  • By Tim Tucker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • Updated

Normally, it takes one day, sometimes less than a full day, to prepare Mercedes-Benz Stadium for its next event. "We can have a football game one day and then convert it to soccer the next," said Scott Jenkins, the stadium's general manager. But getting the building ready for the Super Bowl - the biggest event in U.S. sports - has been a six-week process involving hundreds of contractors and ...