As we move from the Thanksgiving season to the New Year, we note that the pace picks up considerably. There
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Tag Archives: Loran Smith
Loran Smith: It was a full house of full throated “Damn Good Dawgs”
Coach Kirby Smart showed up at Sanford Stadium last Saturday excited and buoyant with a positive frame of mine, but
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Whaddaya Got Loran: Georgia-Florida is about good football and good times by the beaches
The lean years of the 1950s saw Florida winning six times in Jacksonville and then the Gators were victorious from
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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: October, the greatest month of the year
The heat will subside in a few weeks. I think, and I hope. Usually after Labor Day, we begin to
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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: Strawberry Pie
For years, I have enjoyed the life and times of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, one of the most
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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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Loran Smith: Orlean Castronis, Centenarian
Orlean Castronis is a retired former journalist, the widow of one of the most popular players and coaches ever to
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Loran Smith: Gary Bertsch’s World View
An illuminating breakfast conversation with an Athens treasure, Gary Bertsch, segued to his front porch in the early morning last
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Loran Smith: On Dale Greene
When I scheduled a meeting with Dale Greene, recently retired Dean of the University of Georgia Forestry School, I suggested
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Loran Smith: On Wimbledon
The fortnight that it takes to determine the various champions of Wimbledon, one of the classiest sporting events, is likely
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Loran Smith: Casa Moran
VININGS – Here in this unincorporated garden spot of South Cobb County where there are upscale homes, polo fields, the
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Loran Smith: On Willie Mays
The tributes to Willie Mays last week were bittersweet. He, of course, deserved all the lofty praise, but there was
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Loran Smith: Chick and Ted
In the summer of 1936, there was a teenage rookie outfielder for the San Diego Padres who was fidgety, restless
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