When Wyndham Clark’s birdie putt lipped out of the cup late lastSunday at Ponte Vedra, it was not exactly a
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
Loran Smith: On Spring Sports
Spring is the time of the year for many sports to peak. Someday, and I feel sooner than later, Mike
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Loran Smith: On Politics
While I am not a historian and certainly not a political historiographer,I have a curious interest in presidential history and
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Loran Smith: CoveyRise
In the last fortnight, with quail season in full swing, I had the good fortune to receive an invitation from
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Loran Smith: A Fitting Tribute to Erk Russell
Erk Russell had rare and extraordinary leadership skills. Across the Southeast and beyond, there are hundreds of football players who
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Loran Smith: Travels and Trash
For this foray into written composition, there was a choice of multiple datelines, owing to a hundred-mile drive in the
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Loran Smith: Hall of Fame Musings
Halls of Fame are often distinguished by who they keep out more so than who they induct. When he was
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Loran Smith: On Spring Training
The Big-League teams are already playing games at the training camps in Florida and Arizona. Players essentially report one day
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Loran Smith: Right under our nose
These two communities are seldom linked as one. However, they are as next door geographically as Minneapolis and St. Paul,
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Loran Smith: Mecole Hardman, Bowman’s hero
Mecole Hardman will be long remembered when Super Bowl histories are recalled. His three-yard touchdown catch was not that spectacular
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Loran Smith: Thanks for the Memories, Claude
I knew this day was coming, but before we lament the inevitable which the passing of time often brings about,
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Loran Smith: A most extraordinary couple…
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tenn. – A most extraordinary couple lives in this affluent mountain town where spring flowers and autumn leaves
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Loran Smith: The Steg & The Coach
The Steg in winter is now the place to be unless you have a fireplace, firewood, and a TV in
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Loran Smith: Uga’s are the greatest of ambassadors by just being themselves
In the late fifties when I became connected to the University of Georgia, Uga I had already become one of
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Loran Smith: “You Are My Sunshine”
LAGRANGE – It is always exhilarative to become knowledgeable about the history of Georgia towns and communities and what their
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Loran Smith: Super Dawgs
There will be a Georgia player in the forthcoming Super Bowl for the 23rd consecutive season on February 11th in
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Loran Smith: Remembering Charlie Bagby
You would have to be something of a seasoned historian or a baseball aficionado with a bent toward gleaning the
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Loran Smith: The Soque
CLARKESVILLE – While the Chattahoochee will always be my favorite Georgia river which flows out of the “hills of Habersham
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