With the exit of DeAngelo Hall, Warrick Dunn, Alge Crumpler, and Mike Vick, who’s our star player now.

If you are a Falcons fan, you sitting in your house with your season ticket renewal forms thinking to yourself what in the hell should I do. Of course you love your team, but after a season like the 2007 season, how much can you really take.  Since Dimitroff has arrived, he’s found a way to get rid of any of Mike Vick’s friends that included Dunn, Crumpler and fellow VT player D. Hall.  It’s only a matter of time before they release Vick.  But who’s that player do we have that gets us excited again?  Who’s gonna help get the Dome back rockin like it was during the 2002 - 2006 seasons?  Is it Michael Turner?  Don’t know about that, I wasn’t jumping up and down about a back up running back being brought in for that amount of money.  Or is it someone in the draft?  It won’t be McFadden, hello, we just paid a boat load of cash to Turner.  Matt Ryan?  May be a good QB, but no one to get excited about. 

Who’s out there to take over that role?  The one who will help the Falcons get talked about again.  I don’t think that person is on the team now, but where is he?  Mr. Blank, you’ve cleaned house, now its time to redecorate.

Falcons to trade D. Hall for Raiders’ second-round pick in ‘08 draft

The Atlanta Falcons have reached an agreement in principle with the Oakland Raiders to trade cornerback DeAngelo Hall for the Raiders’ second-round pick in the 2008 draft, pending the Raiders finalizing a contract with Hall, according to a source close to the Falcons.

Hall is close to agreeing to a contract with the Raiders that will pay him just below what Asante Samuel signed with the Eagles, according to the source. Samuel signed a six-year deal worth a reported $57 million, with $20 million guaranteed.

Hall is a former first-rounder taken with the eighth pick in the 2004 draft.

Chris Mortensen covers the NFL for ESPN

Atlanta Hawks spokesman says Phillips Arena apparently OK after storm

Atlanta Hawks spokesman Arthur Triche said Philips Arena apparently sustained little damage from the severe windstorm that hit downtown Atlanta on Friday night.

Inside the arena, there were no immediate signs of fallen debris, but small pieces from a ceiling tile landed on the Hawks’ practice court.

“From what I hear, we’re OK,” Triche said after the Hawks’ win over the Los Angeles Clippers. “They’re checking the roof right now in one corner, but everything looks fine so far.”

The Hawks were playing the Los Angeles Clippers in the fourth quarter when the storm tore a hole in the roof at the Georgia Dome, which is located in the same complex as Philips and less than a half-mile from the arena.

During the Hawks’ game, arena officials made no public announcements about the storm.

At the dome, Southeastern Conference officials stopped the next-to-last game of the night in the men’s basketball tournament, but play later resumed in Mississippi State’s overtime win over Alabama.

Mike Vick’s Virginia trial postponed

Michael Vick’s trial on state dogfighting charges in Virginia was set for April 2, but will be re-scheduled, according to the Surry County prosecutor’s office. A continuance has been granted, but a new date for the jury trial has not been set.

The Virginia indictment charges Vick with one count of torturing and killing dogs and one count of promoting dogfighting. Each carries a maximum five-year prison term.

Vick is currently serving a 23-month sentence in federal prison after being convicted for dogfighting related charges.

Calls to Vick’s attorney, Billy Martin, were not immediately returned.

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The Atlanta Hawks win 2 games in 1 day due to the first replay game since ‘83 against the Heat

The Hawks got the defensive stop they wanted, two in fact, as they finally finished off the Miami Heat in the scoreless replayed 51.9 seconds of overtime of a game they won Dec. 19.

Heat All-Star Dwyane Wade missed a contested 3-pointer from the corner with 1.5 seconds to play that would have tied the game at 114-114. The rebound bounced long, and the Hawks ran out the clock, defeating the Heat for a second time in the same game, they won 117-111 in December.

“This isn’t the biggest win of the year; the next one will be,” said Hawks forward Josh Smith, who was on the bench for the replayed portion of the game, having fouled out in the original game. “We’ve got to get the next one.”

They did. The Hawks defeated the Heat in the regularly scheduled contest 97-94 as Joe Johnson matched a season high with 39 points.

In the first game, Mark Blount missed a turnaround jumper on the Heat’s first possession, and Johnson missed a driving layup on the ensuing Hawks possession.

The Hawks started the replayed game leading 114-111, in the exact same position they were in with 51.9 seconds to play on Dec. 19.

An error by the Hawks’ official scorer that night resulted in a protest that was filed and won by the Heat that forced both teams back to the court Saturday to replay those final 51.9 seconds.

Former Heat center Shaquille O’Neal was fouled out of the original game but actually had only five fouls when he was disqualified. He has since been traded, as have four Hawks players from that night.