Recalling coaching legends of the past is always memorable, and the new book, “From Notre Dame to Georgia HARRY
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
Billy Payne Day Between the Hedges
In the archives of the Georgia Sports Information Office, there is a photo of Billy Payne when his
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Whatcha Got Loran? A farewell to the ‘Hawk’… Alex Hawkins
A farewell to ‘The Hawk”…Alex Hawkins… a colorful former Gamecock who’s wit and play were legendary.
Whatcha Got Loran? The Georgia-Florida game is personified by good times with great friends
The Georgia-Florida game is personified by good times with great friends, which I had many of with John
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Whatcha Got Loran? Grady School Dean, Charles Davis, Wants a Bulldog Win for Bragging Rights
University of Georgia Grady College Dean, Charles Davis, wants nothing more than to walk away from Saturday’s homecoming
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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: Recollections about the consummate team player, Doug McFalls
Doug McFalls never picked up the nickname cobra, but that would have been an appropriate description for the
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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: Georgia’s historic trip to South Bend …
Georgia’s historic trip to South Bend includes Voss, Norway and the likes of Knute Rockne and Paul Hornung.
WHATCHA GOT LORAN: In the words of Dan Magill ‘Oh boy. King Football’ has returned…
The start of football season is official with the first kickoff, but begins emotionally when the teams report
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Former Georgia Bulldog Ken Cooper Remembered
The laid back lifestyle of Georgia’s biggest coastal city was appropriate for the pace of Ken Cooper, the
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Devon Williams Breaks Spec Towns Record
You likely missed it. What’s more you probably don’t care, in that if you are a sports aficionado,
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Manuel Diaz the Proud Protégé
You really can’t succeed a legend, unless you are Manuel Diaz, the Georgia tennis coach who has been
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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: Whoa Nellie … Keith Jackson Never Forgot Where He Was From!
A summer ago, a perusal of my calendar revealed that there was nothing booked on the weekend before
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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: Reminiscing about the ’76 Georgia team and former player and Coach Ray Goff
The Georgia-Alabama game, forty years ago between the hedges, left Bulldog partisans on a high that lasted well into
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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: The long, amazing tradition of Georgia-Florida speaks for itself …
The long, amazing tradition of Georgia-Florida speaks for itself … The criteria for playing the Georgia-Florida game
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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: Cooper Gunby, one of the proudest Dawgs around…
Cooper Gunby ain’t nothin’ but a Bulldog. Chances are he could peruse the lyrics of Elvis Pressley’s hit
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Whatcha Got Loran: Boss Bailey
Boss Bailey … If you were hanging out in the hedges the second weekend in October, 2002, you
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Whatcha Got Loran: Oxford, Miss
Oxford, Miss. Arriving here early in the week for a game at Ole Miss allows for considerable extra-curricular
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Jack Davis was a Great Dawg and a Great American
When Jack Davis, a native Georgian, who had been a long time resident of Westchester County with Madison
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