Smith: Sonny Smart

RABUN GAP — Last weekend, the Presbyterian Church here was overflowing with mourners who came to pay respects to Clyde J. (Sonny) Smart in a modest and simple service that reflected the essence of a man who spent his life underscoring leadership principles that made young people the beneficiaries...

Smith: Yawn, Las Vegas

Known as “Sin City,” Las Vegas is a popular destination throughout the year.

Smith: Bowl memories

The holiday bowls are no longer what they once were due to the evolution of the college football playoff system, but fortunately, they are present in the new 12-team format.That is good.

Smith: SEC has a new champion

Football, as we are often reminded, is a physical game.

Smith: Bobby Garrard

After winning three Southeastern Conference championships and making six bowl trips, including the Rose Bowl and two visits to the Orange Bowl—the coming of the fifties was not a sound era for the Georgia Bulldogs.In 1950, the Bulldogs posted a 6-3-3 record, including playing in the Presidential...

Smith: Dawgs travel to Oxford

OXFORD, Miss. – Is it a fair assessment that when this country had its beginnings, college towns sprang up where there was no cost for the land and that with agriculture being prominent in the curriculum, that land was needed for the ag school to grow and farm for teaching purposes and to provide...

Smith: Eyes of Texas

It was a relatively short flight of an hour and 45 minutes home from Austin for the Georgia football team last Saturday night.

Smith: Royal history in Texas

This metropolitan city is also the state capital of Texas, a music center like Athens, and the home of the Longhorns football team, which now competes in the Southeastern Conference.Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, what would Darrell Royal, Dana X. Bible, Tom Landry, and Tommy Nobis think of that?In addition...

Smith: Dirty Dan makes most of opportunity

If you have spent time in Sanford Stadium lately, you have heard public address announcer Brooke Whitmire singing out Dirty Dan Jackson’s name quite often.Jackson is in his sixth season as a Bulldog defender in what is a classic example of “love of alma mater” getting priority the old-fashioned way.

Smith: Chicken Little Dawgs

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.