With balmy temperatures about to gain traction, there will be cool mornings trending toward warm conditions, which will allow for
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Tag 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: Fickle March
With the coming of March, this means that we are likely to experience the ficklest weather—from warm and temperate days
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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: 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: 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: Classy College Coaches
As the seconds evaporated from the scoreboard clock in the Mercedes Dome in Atlanta a little more than a month
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Loran Smith: “…drifting off to sleep with the sounds of the Chattahoochee whispering peaceful contentment…”
CORNELIA – Owing to a warm friendship with Jimmy Harris, the good-natured mayor of Nacoochee Bend, just outside Helen, I
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Loran Smith: Spring training follows winter workouts for the Orange Bowl champs
The Georgia football team, following another head turning successful season, will be into winter workouts momentarily. A few days to
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Loran Smith: On Florida
MIAMI – For years, when visiting a new city, I would begin the trip by taking a Gray Line tour
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Loran Smith: Going for the win – January 2, 1984
MIAMI – By nightfall, Jan. 2, 1984, the football world had already gone into a tailspin with Georgia having upset
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