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George Patton

George Patton

Smith: George Patton

Loran Smith
Thursday, August 21, 2025
On Sept. 19, 1964, a muggy night in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Joe Namath lined up under center for the first series, called for the snap, and dropped back to throw. As soon as he set up in the pocket, George Patton was in his face and threw the heralded Tide All-American for a nine-yard loss.
Loran Smith/File Photo

Loran Smith/File Photo

Smith: Manuel Diaz

Loran Smith
Thursday, June 19, 2025
The upcoming induction of three Bulldog icons into the “Circle of Honor” in late August will be especial in that in the prime years of their Georgia careers, they were the best of their time: Herschel Walker was the best running back in the country; Jeff Wallace was the best women’s coach; and...
Loran Smith/File Photo

Loran Smith/File Photo

Smith: A devoted UGA friend will be missed

Loran Smith
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
The University of Georgia never had a more excellent friend than John Francis McMullan. He was a devoted alumnus, passionate football fan, scholarly overachiever, and generous donor with a historical bent for family genealogy, the history of this state, and an unrestrained love of America.
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: Bulldogs earn awards

Loran Smith
Thursday, May 16, 2024
The University of Georgia chapter of the National Football Foundation recently hosted its 38th annual awards banquet before a packed house at the Athens Country Club.UGA's chapter has enjoyed No.
Fans will enter the new Classic Center Arena from its south end on the main level behind the top of spectator seating, with its playing surface a couple of stories below. IAN TOCHER/Staff

Fans will enter the new Classic Center Arena from its south end on the main level behind the top of spectator seating, with its playing surface a couple of stories below. IAN TOCHER/Staff

Classic Center Arena a major addition to Athens

Ian Tocher
Thursday, April 4, 2024
The new Classic Center Arena, owned by Athens-Clarke County and currently being built on the University of Georgia campus, will set a new standard for local sports and performance venues once it’s completed in early October.
Two of the best-ever at their chosen crafts: Bulldogs’ football legend and 1982 Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker (left) with UGA’s legendary Sports Information and Communications Director Claude Felton on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens. COURTESY OF UGA ATHLETICS

Two of the best-ever at their chosen crafts: Bulldogs’ football legend and 1982 Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker (left) with UGA’s legendary Sports Information and Communications Director Claude Felton on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens. COURTESY OF UGA ATHLETICS

Garnder: UGA blessed by long-serving SID Felton

Contributed By Tim Gardner
Thursday, March 28, 2024
The tenure of one of the University of Georgia’s longest-serving, most beloved, and most outstanding employees ever ended Jan. 31 with the retirement of Claude Felton.
Loran Smith/Columnist

Loran Smith/Columnist

Smith: UGA spring sports

Loran Smith
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.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart during Georgia’s annual G-Day scrimmage on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart during Georgia’s annual G-Day scrimmage on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

University of Georgia demands AJC retract article about sexual assault within the program

Lance McCurley
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
The University of Georgia responded on Tuesday to an article written by Atlanta-Journal Constitution investigative journalist Alan Judd, whose report detailed how the Bulldogs’ football program allegedly handled sexual assault accusations against its student-athletes.
Jason Hasty (left), the athletics history specialist for UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, describes items in a case highlighting UGA women’s sports to Tyler Van Dusen, defensive coordinator for Gatewood Schools’ football team. IAN TOCHER /Staff

Jason Hasty (left), the athletics history specialist for UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, describes items in a case highlighting UGA women’s sports to Tyler Van Dusen, defensive coordinator for Gatewood Schools’ football team. IAN TOCHER /Staff

UGA sports history on display at library

Ian Tocher
Thursday, June 15, 2023
In a statewide traveling program initiated by University of Georgia (UGA) Athletics History Specialist and collection archivist Jason Hasty in 2016, several unique reminders of the school’s sporting success were on display last Friday at the Eatonton-Putnam County Public Library.
Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

Dick Yarbrough/File Photo

YARBROUGH: Remembering the extraordinary kindness of Vince Dooley

Dick Yarbrough
Thursday, November 10, 2022
There is no need for a recitation here of Vince Dooley’s myriad and well-deserved accomplishments on and off the football field. You have seen and heard them numerous times since his passing on Oct. 28th at the age of 90. However, there is a side to this great man you might not know about.
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