I just returned from a short stay in Georgia’s Golden Isles. What a lovely place. It has been a lovely
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
Loran Smith: Tybee Light and Atom Bombs
Have you been to Tybee Island lately? Next time you are in Savannah, take the 18-mile drive to Tybee where
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Loran Smith on Bobby Bowden
Anyone familiar with Bobby Bowden’s coaching record is aware that his winning consistency was the hallmark of a remarkable career
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Loran Smith: Jon Fabris is still coaching…his sons
Jon Fabris is still coaching—this time, however, it is akin to homeschooling since his instructional expertise is reserved exclusively for
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Loran Smith: Sarah McKinney has an enlarged heart.
(Dr. Gary Bertsch, retired UGA professor, commented in a recent column about the importance of community and local involvement in
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Loran Smith: The hottest thing about Sandwich and its environs on Sunday Collin Morikawa
With the conclusion of the British championship, the major golfing season has ended. For years, the final major, the
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Loran Smith: “Making our communities better makes for a better world.”
(The following is the first of a two-part series about two individuals in Athens who are making a difference in
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Loran Smith: All Dawgs should glory in his having come our way
A long-distance conversation took place earlier this week while it was mid-day in Hawaii and sundown was giving way to
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Loran Smith: A Plainsman in Athens
One of the benefits of residency in a college community is exposure to countless people with absorbing resumes and singular
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Loran Smith: The Red Cow
Today, golfers at the Open championship will do their best to make the cut at golf’s oldest championship at the
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Loran Smith: The Open is Underway
The 148th playing of the British Open championship got underway this morning, long before America woke up. In my mind’s
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Loran Smith: Memories of Royal St. Georges
Today at the Royal St. Georges Golf Club in the little village of Sandwich, England, the leading professional golfers in
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Loran Smith: Football in Turmoil
The second in a continuing series for Bulldawg Illustrated. Already, we are hearing the doomsayer forecasts that Armageddon is knocking
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Loran Smith: British Open Reminiscences
For four decades, I have been fortunate to cover the British Open, starting in 1978 at St. Andrews, a rare
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Loran Smith – Classic Summer Sports Travel
A sports aficionado can enjoy his or her fill of classic sports competition by spending a summer in Europe. It
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Loran Smith: Another Vaccine
It is always illuminating to engage the Internet to connect with a special day in history every day of the
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Loran Smith: Dog Days
The dog days of summer. You know about those sultry days when the temperatures make everybody edgy and lethargic. Already,
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Loran Smith: When In Rome…
July is named for the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar, which you likely are aware of. My first introduction
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