ATLANTA -- Last year's rivalry game between Georgia Tech and Georgia was a brutal affair, most of all for Haynes King . A month earlier, the Yellow Jackets quarterback had injured his right shoulder. By the final Monday in November, King still couldn't throw a ball more than a few feet without a tidal wave of pain radiating down his arm, and the Jackets' coaching staff doubted he could even play against Georgia.

Then, miraculously, just three days before kickoff, King arrived at practice and uncorked a deep ball. Then another. Then another.

It made no sense. King had seemingly healed overnight. Or, perhaps, as head coach Brent Key surmised, King simply chose not to be injured anymore.

"He's just got an innately high pain tolerance," Key said. "He's able to just block it out. It st

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