AUSTIN, TX – This metropolitan city is also the state capital of Texas, a music center, like Athens, Ga., and
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
The Pirate, Mike Leach, curiosity with Xs and Os will forever live on …
The first I heard of Mike Leach was when he showed up at Valdosta State as the offensive coordinator for
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Loran Smith: Dirty Dan
If you have spent time in Sanford Stadium lately, you have heard public address announcer, Brooke Whitmire, singing out Dirty
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Loran Smith: Sanford Pressboxes, New and Old
You may have heard; Georgia has a new press box. The old facility gave way to premium seat locations for
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Loran Smith: Pumpkin Soup and Red Stripe Beer
October is pumpkin month. Pumpkin season lasts on into November—all the way to Thanksgiving. Pumpkins are among the oldest known
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Grand Georgia Families: The Fergusons
The Fergusons – the proud Athens family forges ahead with their 90 year old haberdashery! When I arrived in Athens
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Loran Smith: Chicken Little Dawgs
Defensive pessimism and doom saying are rampant among the Georgia fan base these days. Chicken Little was dressed in red
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The Georgia-Alabama series history is rich with thrilling encounters and donnybrooks between these two proud SEC football programs
Georgia and Alabama met for the first time in 1895 in Columbus with the Bulldogs dominating the boys from the
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Loran Smith: “Moore to Hodgson to Taylor to Glory”
The criteria for the greatest plays are not something that can be drawn up on a chalk board and depends
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Loran Smith: College Football Travel
College football has several ancillary benefits. Tailgating, for example, is a staple of game days wherever your favorite team is
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Loran Smith: Georgia didn’t play well, but Kentucky had something to do with that
The greatest circumstance in team sports—other than claiming the championship prize—is to have an off day, to play bad, and
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Loran Smith: UGA’s New Pressbox Named for Bulldog Legends
You may have heard; Georgia has a new press box. The old facility gave way to premium seat locations for
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Loran Smith: A Pocket of Peace on Earth
NANTUCKET, Mass. – In spite of the strife and turmoil that headlines often link us, there remain pockets of peace
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Loran Smith: The Game Has Changed
There is so much uneasiness about college football today, and while I am comfortable with paying the players, shouldn’t there
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Loran Smith: Hell Would Freeze Over
With the coming of football, it will be nice to focus on the excitement of the games which hopefully will
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Loran Smith: Honor Erk
As another football season is about to get underway, I thought about all the lustful and enduring praise for offensive
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Loran Smith: Remembering Julio
You may not be familiar with a certain area radio personality if he were referred to as David Malcom, but
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Loran Smith: Smithonia
SMITHONIA COMMIUNITY—This historical place, once a bastion of plantation wealth and cutting-edge agri-business enterprise, has a legend that was fostered
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