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Smith: UGA spring sports

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Spring is the time of the year for many sports to peak. Someday, and I feel sooner than later, UGA basketball coach Mike White will have us excited about his team making the playoffs. He will get us into March Madness.

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Smith: Erk campaign

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Erk Russell had rare and extraordinary leadership skills. Across the Southeast and beyond, hundreds of football players would quickly attest to that.

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Smith: Halls of Fame

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Halls of Fame are often distinguished more by who they keep out than by who they induct.

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Smith: Florida vs. Arizona

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Big-league teams are already playing games at training camps in Florida and Arizona.Players essentially report one day and play a game the next. In the old days, the routine was very different.

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Smith: Fickle days ahead

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

With the coming of March, this means that we are likely to experience the ficklest weather—from warm and temperate days to a foot of snow or more.

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Smith: Super Bowl memories

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Georgia’s own Mecole Hardman will be long remembered when Super Bowl histories are recalled. His three-yard touchdown catch last Sunday was not that spectacular as far as spectacular plays go, but what it meant for the Kansas City Chiefs will make him a hero forever.

Loran Smith Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sports Communications Claude Felton during Georgia’s annual G-Day scrimmage on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

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Smith: Legendary UGA sports information director Claude Felton

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

I knew this day was coming, but before we lament its inevitability, we will maintain dry eyes and sing, “Thanks for the Memories.

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Smith: Love at first sight

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tenn. – A most extraordinary couple lives in this affluent mountain town where spring flowers and autumn leaves offer inspiration that would captivate daydreamers, sentimentalists, Pollyannas, artists, and poets.

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Smith: The Steg & the coach

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Stegeman Coliseum in winter is now the place to be unless you have a fireplace, firewood, and a TV in your den.

Uga X during the Bulldogs 37-14 win over Georgia Tech in a game played Nov. 26, 2022. (COURTESY OF UGA ATHLETICS)

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Smith: RIP Uga X

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

In the late 1950s, when I became connected to the University of Georgia, Uga had already become one of the premier personalities on the campus of the oldest chartered university in the country. The patriarch mascot had it all. He was as handsome as a bulldog could be.

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