On the way home from Historic Grant Field last Saturday, it was nice to take phone calls from friends and
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
Loran Smith: Grant Field, Home Field
It has been traditional for Georgia and Georgia Tech to determine the state championship in football on Friday after Thanksgiving.
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Loran Smith: I’m Thankful
I’m thankful that it is Thanksgiving again, a time when we can pause and reflect on the good things in
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Loran Smith: State Championship Game History – Georgia vs. Georgia Tech
With Saturday’s game at Grant Field approaching, it is interesting to review the history of this rivalry game for the
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Loran Smith: On Charleston Southern
Charleston Southern, a Baptist School in Charleston, South Carolina, is Georgia’s opponent tomorrow in the last home game of the
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While the methods have changed dramatically, the attention to details for getting our team to road game remains impeccable
The first team travel exposure came about for me during my senior at Georgia when Dan Magill suggested to baseball
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Loran Smith: Sautee-Nacoochee
This is an unincorporated community which brings about a salient point. If you took a year attempting to find
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Loran Smith: On Mark Richt
There would be no way to establish conclusively who could claim certain superlatives if you attempted to definitively identify who
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Loran Smith: “I can’t believe it, Georgia just beat Tennessee in Knoxville”
Tomorrow, the University of Georgia Bulldogs will take their talented team on the road again, this time to Knoxville, Tennessee
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Loran Smith: A “brother’s keeper” act of kindness
In a long affiliation with the University of Georgia, there has been an opportunity to become acquainted with countless Red
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Loran Smith: Five-alarm chili was “when you put the armadillo in live”
With the University of Iowa having reached high national rank in college football a few weeks back, I thought of
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Loran Smith: On Don Faurot
With Georgia playing Missouri tomorrow between the hedges, I never think about Mizzou without recalling the Tigers famous coach, Don
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Whaddaya Got Loran: No graduate enjoyed being a Bulldog football letterman and alumnus more than Fred E. Farah
No graduate enjoyed being a Bulldog football letterman and alumnus more than Fred E. Farah The 1950s were not good
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Loran Smith: Georgia’s Greatest Defense
Forty-one years ago, in early November, Bulldog partisans were tipping their Red & Black caps to Georgia Tech, an expression
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Loran Smith: On Tommy Lawhorne
The Golden Isles have never been more golden than today with more and more people wanting to settle down into
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Loran Smith: Halloween and the WLOCP
As we reach the end of October, we know it is time for Halloween….Halloween always falls on the 31st of
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Loran Smith: Wrightville Reflections
This is where I grew up, where my daydreams took me places with which I never thought I would actually
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St. Simons recently lost one of its greatest Bulldogs with the passing of former UGA All-America swimmer, James Kenneth Bankston
Talk of moving the Georgia-Florida game out of Jacksonville brings about considerable debate. I have gone on record with that
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