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New tradition: Giving thanks (to those who deserve it)

It’s that time of year again when two traditions intersect: Thanksgiving and Georgia fans asking, “Wait, what happened?”

This also is the time when the late great Furman Bisher, our window to sports history, the man who interviewed Ty Cobb and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, the man who watched Cy Young pitch and Joe Louis box and was there when car racing transitioned from bootlegging to NASCAR, the sports-writing legend who would phone me occasionally to muse over a column or the date on his birth certificate (“It’s like I’m one of those stone things, talking to you. A talking statue!