You really can’t succeed a legend, unless you are Manuel Diaz, the Georgia tennis coach who has been
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
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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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: Doesn’t get any better than Athens and Chapel Hill
College towns which are nestled in the landscape—like Athens, Georgia and Chapel Hill, North Carolina—make for the most
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WHATCHA GOT LORAN: Coaching Changes
When Joel Eaves took over as athletic director at Georgia, he was keenly aware that Georgia functioned with
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Filled with pride, Burt Jones returns as honorary captain
[su_spacer size=”20″] [su_spacer size=”40″] If you haven’t seen or heard from Burt Jones lately, this is to confirm that he
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Recalling Bill Herron, Gordon Kelly: Bulldog Nation Loses Two Members of 1959 Team
[su_spacer size=”20″] [su_spacer size=”40″] For the many Georgia fans, long in the tooth, the news lately about Coach Wallace Butts’
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Kathy Miller has fandom down pat – A hearty welcome to all visiting teams is refreshing
[su_spacer size=”20″] [su_spacer size=”40″] There once was the suggestion that the fans of a certain college football program would only
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Reminiscing About Past Victories is Always Enjoyable
[su_spacer size=”20″] [su_spacer size=”20″] In 1975, Georgia was a surprise team in the Southeastern Conference, but nobody saw it coming,
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Finding the Missing Killer Instinct, Easier Said than Done with Today’s Short Attention
[su_spacer size=”20″] Never apologize for winning ugly. Except for a couple of field goals, a maladroit spell in the fourth
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Loran Smith: The Staff Advantage
[su_spacer size=”20″] When I walk thru the UGA coaches offices nowadays, I almost need to request name tags to match
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