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Smith: Chicken Little Dawgs

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Defensive pessimism and doom-saying are rampant among the Georgia fan base these days. Chicken Little was dressed in red and black at the start of the week.

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Smith: Pumpkin season begins

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

October is pumpkin month. Pumpkin season lasts into November — all the way to Thanksgiving. Pumpkins are among the oldest known domesticated plants, dating back to 7000 BCE.

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Smith: Flea-flicker leads to unlikely victory

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Thursday, September 26, 2024

The criteria for the greatest plays cannot be drawn up on a chalkboard. They depend on several factors and circumstances that the best screenplay writers could not script.However, you could hardly improve on what played out in the Georgia-Alabama game between the hedges on Sept. 18, 1965, however.

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Smith: Georgia's lapse at Kentucky

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Other than claiming the championship prize, the greatest circumstance in team sports is having an off day, playing poorly, and winning.From Georgia's perspective, the Bulldogs escaped defeat in Lexington on Saturday night by a very narrow margin.

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Smith: New press box at Sanford Stadium

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

You may have heard: that Georgia has a new press box.The old facility gave way to premium seat locations for donors, which has been a trend regarding the media in recent years – something that has taken place in stadium enhancements and enlargements across the country.

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Smith: Hall of Fame hopes for Patton

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Thursday, September 5, 2024

Sometimes, it can be challenging to evaluate an athlete’s makeup and determine what’s most significant to his or her success.

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Smith: Dawgs take on Tigers

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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Georgia and Clemson met for the first time on the Gridiron in 1897 in Athens, and the Bulldogs won 24-0. The two teams have met intermittently through the years, with the Bulldogs holding a 43-18-4 lead.

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Smith: Callihan’s Mountain Retreat

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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Sapphire, North Carolina, a well-reputed and highly inviting plateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains, has always been a garden spot for visitors and residents alike with a bent for recreation and temperate days and nights that help bring about bountiful outdoor fulfillment.

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Smith: Football today

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

There is so much uneasiness about college football today. While I am comfortable with paying the players, I cannot help but ask, shouldn’t there be some guardrails and respect for the grand ole game’s traditions? Some structure and an overseeing body to bring about common-sense regulation?

Erk Russell was Georgia football's defensive coordinator for 17 years and helped start the football program at Georgia Southern. (Photo Courtesy of the UGA Hargrett Library)

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Smith: Erk Russell tribute planned for Letterman’s Club at UGA

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Thursday, August 8, 2024

As another football season is about to get underway, I thought about all the lustful and enduring praise for offensive football, which has always been the talk of the town. I recalled how the late Erk Russell joined in, too, but underneath, he was plotting and scheming for an equalizer.

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