Georgia (U.S. state)

===Sports===
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[[File:Football game kickoff (Georgia vs South Carolina), Sanford Stadium, September 2007.jpg|thumb|Kickoff, [[Sanford Stadium]], Athens]]

Sports in Georgia include professional teams in nearly all major sports, [[Olympic Games]] contenders and medalists, collegiate teams in major and small-school conferences and associations, and active amateur teams and individual sports. The state of Georgia has teams in four major professional leagues—the [[Atlanta Braves]] of [[Major League Baseball]], the [[Atlanta Falcons]] of the [[National Football League]], the [[Atlanta Hawks]] of the [[National Basketball Association]], and [[Atlanta United FC]] of [[Major League Soccer]].

The [[Georgia Bulldogs]] ([[Southeastern Conference]]), [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets]] ([[Atlantic Coast Conference]]), [[Georgia State Panthers]] and [[Georgia Southern Eagles]] ([[Sun Belt Conference]]) are Georgia's [[NCAA Division I FBS]] football teams, having won multiple national championships between them. The Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a historical rivalry in college football known as [[Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate]], and the Georgia State Panthers and the Georgia Southern Eagles have recently developed their [[Georgia Southern–Georgia State rivalry|own rivalry]].

The [[1996 Olympic Games|1996 Summer Olympics]] took place in Atlanta. The stadium that was built to host various Olympic events was converted to [[Turner Field]], home of the Atlanta Braves through 2016. Atlanta will serve as a host city for the [[2026 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/fifa-to-announce-host-cities-for-fifa-world-cup-2026 |title=FIFA announces hosts cities for FIFA World Cup 2026™ |access-date=December 28, 2022 |archive-date=December 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228153555/https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/fifa-to-announce-host-cities-for-fifa-world-cup-2026 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Masters Tournament|Masters golf tournament]], the first of the [[PGA Tour]]'s four [[Men's major golf championships|"majors"]], is held annually the second weekend of April at the [[Augusta National Golf Club]].

The [[RSM Classic]] is a [[golf]] tournament on the PGA Tour, played in the autumn in [[Saint Simons Island, Georgia]].{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}{{Importance inline|Is this really a major tournament?|date=March 2023}}

The [[Atlanta Motor Speedway]] hosts the [[Dixie 500]] [[NASCAR Cup Series]] stock car race and [[Road Atlanta]] the [[Petit Le Mans]] endurance sports car race.

Atlanta's [[Georgia Dome]] hosted [[Super Bowl XXVIII]] in 1994 and [[Super Bowl XXXIV]] in 2000. The dome has hosted the [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball National Championship]] in 2002, 2007, and 2013.<ref name="AJC Final Four">{{cite news |last=Tucker |first=Tim |title=Atlanta tunes up for Final Four with South region |url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-tunes-for-final-four-with-south-region/jJskpliQXUppX2qog3S0pN/ |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=March 19, 2012 |access-date=June 4, 2021 |archive-date=June 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604195355/https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-tunes-for-final-four-with-south-region/jJskpliQXUppX2qog3S0pN/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It hosted [[WWE]]'s [[WrestleMania XXVII]] in 2011, an event which set an attendance record of 71,617. The venue was also the site of the annual [[Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl]] post-season college football games. Since 2017, they have been held at the [[Mercedes-Benz Stadium]] along with the [[For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology|FIRST]] World Championships.

Professional baseball's [[Ty Cobb]] was the first player inducted into the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]. He was from [[Narrows, Georgia]] and was nicknamed the "Georgia Peach".<ref>{{cite web |last=<!-- Staff writer(s); no by-line. --> |title=Cobb, Ty |url=http://baseballhall.org/hof/cobb-ty |publisher=National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |access-date=December 19, 2012 |archive-date=December 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214092554/http://baseballhall.org/hof/cobb-ty |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Mercedes-Benz Stadium]] hosted [[Super Bowl LIII]] in 2018 and the [[CFP National Championship]] in the same year, the [[SEC Championship Game]] in 2017, the [[MLS All-Star Game]] in 2018, the [[MLS Cup]] in 2018, and the record-setting friendly fixture between Mexico Men's National Football Team and Honduras Men's National Football Team.