Coley Harvey is the Orlando Sentinel's Florida State beat reporter. From Tallahassee, he provides the latest news and analysis on Seminoles sports ... for you.

An Atlanta native (by way of Chicago and Macon, Ga.), Coley Harvey arrived in Tallahassee (by way of Orlando) in April of 2011. Since then, he has served as curator of the Chopping Block blog. Conference expansion rumors, a history-making conference championship basketball team, and never-ending questions about FSU's football team being "back" have helped define his tenure with the Orlando Sentinel.

While the sound of wood smacking cowhide REALLY gets this sports fan's passions pumping, he also has a very sound appreciation for Saturdays in the South. Before arriving in Orlando, he spent four falls chronicling Georgia Tech's football program for The Telegraph (Macon, Ga.). Before that, he deemed autumn heart attack season. As a student at Northwestern University, he spent bitterly cold September, October and November afternoons at Ryan Field cheering on his perpetual also-rans, known affectionately as the "Cardiac 'Cats."

(Profile picture from Josh D. Weiss)

Reporting news, writing news, breaking news. Baseball, football and college basketball trump any other sport.

So long and farewell from this venue … 9/20/2012
As we mentioned earlier this morning in this posting, the Chopping Block is moving. That faint beeping noise I hear are the movers backing up their truck. So it’s so long and farewell to this particular space. We won’t be blogging at this particular web address anymore. Again, don’t worry, the stories you see here that [...]

No ‘Hang Out with Harvey’ this week … and other changes coming 9/20/2012
Just wanted to pass along a quick message to let you know that there will be no Google+ “Hang Out with Harvey” live chat this week. We try to do them each Thursday at 1 p.m., but we’re going to have to skip out on this week’s Hang Out. We’re taking a week off due to [...]

Thursday FSU links: Andre Ellington, Chris Thompson ACC’s best 9/20/2012
We are now finally within that two-day window separating us from arguably the biggest game on the ACC schedule this season, and certainly one of the biggest on the conference calendar in a half-decade. No. 4 Florida State. No. 10 Clemson. This weekend, little else needs to be said. In the words of former boxing ref Mills Lane, [...]

Former FSU coach Bobby Bowden to get statue in Birmingham 9/20/2012
Bobby Bowden is now 2-for-2 on the statue front. According to the Birmingham News, the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex board in Birmingham, Ala. approved Wednesday a contract to build a statue of the former Florida State coach outside the Alabama Hall of Fame. The statue will be built using private funds, and will be a way for [...]

FSU men’s basketball to get ACC Championship rings at game 9/20/2012
Florida State fans may not want to leave their seats at halftime of Saturday night’s game against Clemson. If they do, they’ll miss out on seeing a special ceremony that has never been performed — ever — at FSU. During the intermission of the football game between the No. 4 Seminoles (3-0, 1-0 ACC) and No. 10 [...]