Loran Smith

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Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Halls of Fame

Loran Smith
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Halls of Fame are often distinguished more by who they keep out than by who they induct.When getting long in the tooth, Carnesville native Spurgeon “Spud” Chandler, named the most valuable player in the American League in 1943, was deeply saddened by the fact he had not been elected to the Baseball...
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Florida vs. Arizona

Loran Smith
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.
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Fickle days ahead

Loran Smith
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.Having grown up in Middle Georgia, I can only remember one snowstorm that allowed about an inch of snow to collect which brought about finger-snapping...
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Super Bowl memories

Loran Smith
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)

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)

Smith: Legendary UGA sports information director Claude Felton

Loran Smith
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.”
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Love at first sight

Loran Smith
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.
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: The Steg & the coach

Loran Smith
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)

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

Smith: RIP Uga X

Loran Smith
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.
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Charlie Bagby

Loran Smith
Thursday, January 25, 2024
You probably have to be something of a seasoned historian or a baseball aficionado with a bent toward gleaning the lore of ole timers to recall the father-son pitchers of the Jim Bagby families.
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