Football coming to Kennesaw State University?

With Arthur Blank’s bid to bring a Major League Soccer team announced yesterday, students at Kennesaw State University may have more than one reason to cheer.

The Marietta Daily Journal is reporting that Blank’s management and investment services company, AMB Group LLC, has been looking for venue locations in Cobb for over a year. And according to Cobb Chairman Sam Olens, one possibility is a “synergy with KSU.”

With a new, 20,000-seat facility possibly coming near Kennesaw State, the chances of the Owls starting a football team are looking up.

Funding and land acquisition are the major hurdles Kennesaw State faces in starting a team. But with a possible public-private partnership with the AMB Group, KSU may score a victory after all.

(The Marietta Daily Journal)

Georgia sports for Wednesday, November 14th

Georgia Bulldogs men’s basketball player Billy Humphrey has been arrested by university police on a felony weapons charge. Newspapers in Athens and Atlanta report that Humphery is charged with possessing a pocket knife more than two inches long--a violation of university policy. Humphery is the Bulldogs’ starting guard, and scored 13 points in the team’s opening win Friday night. Georgia plays Grambling State tonight.

In men's college basketball action from Tuesday evening: The Mercer Bears were unable to pull another early-season upset, as they lost at home in Macon to visiting Alabama, 90-83. The game drew the first sellout of the history of the nearly 4-year old arena, which seats 3,200. On Saturday, Mercer opened their season with a stunning upset over Southern California. Other action included a win for Savannah State at home over SC-Aiken, 71-65. Kennesaw State was a loser at Auburn, 74-66.

Women's college hoops had Georgia's club improve to 3-0. The 8th-ranked Lady Bulldogs at home in Athens turned back Georgia Southern easily, 105-66. Tasha Humphrey scored 18 points.

From pro hockey, the Atlanta Thrashers at home scored a late comeback to top the Florida Panthers 3-2 in overtime. Marian Hossa scored with 3 seconds left in regulation to tie—-Ilya Kovalchuk netted the winner 27 seconds into OT.

Ousted Dean returns as professor

The ousted dean at Kennesaw State University -- Yiping Wan -- has returned this week as a professor. Wan was forced out as head of the College of Education in February. But KSU can’t fire him because he is tenured. The school’s president asked Wan to resign after an internal investigation uncovered irregular business practices with tuition waivers and low morale among faculty members in the College of Education under Wan's leadership.