WASHINGTON – It would be difficult to find a more attractive small town than the seat of Wilkes County which
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Loran Smith: Happiness is Winning
If it weren’t for fans, there would be no television or college football mania. Fan support is the first step
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Another season has arrived with the enormous challenge of a three-peat for Kirby’s Dawgs and college football’s need to remain dedicated to campus experiences
Georgia’s greatest eras were the ’40s with Wallace Butts, the ’80s with Vince Dooley and NOW with Kirby Smart. World
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Loran Smith: If you win, nobody cares about the weather
That first home football game—even with deplorable heat—nonetheless resonates with college football fans across the country. We can’t wait for
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Loran Smith: Championships require a little luck
It doesn’t matter about the championship team; research confirms that most of them had a close call during their season
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Loran Smith: 6,200 incoming freshmen will look back on their UGA experience in the ensuing years as the greatest time of their lives
With the semester system in place at most colleges across the country, incoming freshmen have now settled in, beginning a
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Loran Smith: On Dell McGee
Few people have figured as prominently in Georgia’s ascent to the summit of college football as Dell McGee, the Bulldogs’
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Loran Smith: Fall Camp Remembrance
The hot weather reminds us that it is always hot in August when collegiate football players report. Yesteryear, however, it
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Loran Smith: Small towns across our state are forever a reminder that small-town life is usually a good life
EASTMAN – It takes three hours—maybe a little more, depending on traffic between Madison and Eatonton, where the widening of
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Loran Smith: Jeff Treadway’s good life for a Damn Good Dawg
Jeff Treadway, second baseman for the Atlanta Braves during the worst-to-first era of the nineties, was a small-town boy who
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Loran Smith: I have had a long-standing affinity for grapes
Since my college years at the University of Georgia, I have had a long-standing affinity for grapes. That is when
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Loran Smith: Hail to the Open champion
Brian Harman does not overpower golf courses. He hasn’t collected a passel of major championships—in fact, he had won only
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Loran Smith: A treasure trove of lasting memories at The Open
With the Open championship (you see I am yielding to the Brits who prefer—sometimes insist—that their national golfing championship, not
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Loran Smith: On Wimbledon
With the Wimbledon finals coming up this weekend, I will be watching and not just the tennis—but also the grounds,
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Loran Smith: Becoming a designated hitter
The one who has always managed the grocery shopping at our address has been incapacitated lately with a bad knee
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Loran Smith: Greenville via Moreland
MORELAND – I stopped here recently after a trip to Greenville, which is in the heart of the Pine Mountain
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Loran Smith: Harmon Wages, warts and all
Hamon Wages was a football player and a very good one, often underrated, but always having a flair for the
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Loran Smith: On saving community newspapers
Lately, I’ve been hanging out with a few newspaper publishers who remain convinced that print journalism is not dead. They
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