It doesn’t matter about the championship team; research confirms that most of them had a close call during their season
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
Loran Smith: Fall Camp Remembrance
The hot weather reminds us that it is always hot in August when collegiate football players report. Yesteryear, however, it
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Loran Smith: Small towns across our state are forever a reminder that small-town life is usually a good life
EASTMAN – It takes three hours—maybe a little more, depending on traffic between Madison and Eatonton, where the widening of
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Loran Smith: Welcoming shorter days
In case you haven’t noticed, daylight is coming a little later now. That trend will continue as the calendar moves
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Loran Smith: Jeff Treadway’s good life for a Damn Good Dawg
Jeff Treadway, second baseman for the Atlanta Braves during the worst-to-first era of the nineties, was a small-town boy who
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Loran Smith: I have had a long-standing affinity for grapes
Since my college years at the University of Georgia, I have had a long-standing affinity for grapes. That is when
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Loran Smith: Hail to the Open champion
Brian Harman does not overpower golf courses. He hasn’t collected a passel of major championships—in fact, he had won only
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Loran Smith: A treasure trove of lasting memories at The Open
With the Open championship (you see I am yielding to the Brits who prefer—sometimes insist—that their national golfing championship, not
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Loran Smith: On Wimbledon
With the Wimbledon finals coming up this weekend, I will be watching and not just the tennis—but also the grounds,
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Loran Smith: Becoming a designated hitter
The one who has always managed the grocery shopping at our address has been incapacitated lately with a bad knee
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Loran Smith: Europe in Summer
It is difficult to book a seat on a plane or find an empty hotel room in the summer in
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Loran Smith: On Ned Yost
GREENVILLE – The contentment in Ned Yost’s life today could not be more striking and fulfilling as he farms, hunts,
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Loran Smith: On Irish Whiskey
There was this wife who was passionately into genealogy, which held absolutely no sway with her cynical husband. One day
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Loran Smith: Harmon Wages, warts and all
Hamon Wages was a football player and a very good one, often underrated, but always having a flair for the
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Loran Smith: On saving community newspapers
Lately, I’ve been hanging out with a few newspaper publishers who remain convinced that print journalism is not dead. They
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Loran Smith: Brian O’Neal, a Brave, a Falcon and a model citizen
If you are a Falcons fan, you likely know about Brian O’Neal Jordan. You also are familiar with his career
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Loran Smith: Remembering my time in Missouri
Owing to a golf friendship, there was an annual trip to Kansas City in June for several years, which allowed
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Loran Smith: D-Day Remembrance
We have just concluded the anniversary of the first week of the D-Day invasion. Originally, the invasion was scheduled for
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