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Talking football . . .
(Hey. Just a note that this is my last post for a while. I’m on vacation until July 14. By then, we’ll be only about a week away from SEC football media days, to be soon followed by the start of preseason practice . . . and, before you know...
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More buzz about Georgia-Florida and Jacksonville
While University of Florida president Bernie Machen apparently is ready to extend the contract to play the Georgia-Florida football game in Jacksonville, Georgia is not at that point, UGA athletics director Damon Evans said Tuesday.
Machen was quoted by the St. Petersburg Times as saying at Florida’s athletics board meeting...
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Kudos to Kupets, indeed
“Oledawg” expressed the opinion here yesterday that Courtney Kupets should be a blog topic. Quoting “Oledawg”: “Kudos to Kupets!” Agreed.
Kupets’ Georgia gymnastics career — she helped the Gym Dogs to NCAA championships each year she competed and won an unprecedented nine NCAA individual titles along the way – was...
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Making the call on broadcasters . . .
It wasn’t unexpected, but it was nevertheless momentous: Georgia’s official announcement that Scott Howard succeeds Larry Munson as the voice of the Bulldogs.
Maybe it seemed that already had happened, what with Howard having taken over play-by-play on road football games when Munson stopped traveling in 2007 and on home...
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With health and spirit, ‘we’ll be much improved on defense’
A year ago, Georgia’s football team was preseason No. 1. A year later, that seems like a long time ago.
So, minus Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno, what is the general feeling about where the Bulldog program is today?
Coach Mark Richt tackled that question this week (and you’re welcome to do...
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Poythress to Seattle
Georgia first baseman Rich Poythress was drafted by Seattle tonight, and he could not have been surprised.
“The Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox have probably shown the most interest,” Poythress told me three days before the MLB draft.
The Mariners grabbed Poythress, the junior slugger, with the second pick...
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Dogs’ unknown national champ, and seeking your football questions . . .
Welcome to the last week of the 2008-09 sports year for UGA. The final team still active is the track and field team, which will complete its season with the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., Wednesday through Saturday.
Georgia has the defending NCAA men’s champion...
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Team-by-team GPA’s
University of Georgia athletes in all men’s and women’s sports had a cumulative grade point average of 3.01 for spring semester, the highest ever by the school’s athletes, the UGA Athletic Association announced Thursday.
Of 508 student-athletes, 258 had GPA’s of 3.0 or higher for the semester.
Thursday’s news release...
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Georgia goes Nationwide
Athens – Interesting, UGA getting into the pro golf business.
Georgia’s agreement to host and operate a Nationwide Tour event for the next three years will preserve an Athens stop on the tour, showcase the UGA Golf Course and, if all goes well, produce profits that will be used for need-based...
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The scheduling game
The scheduling game keeps getting more complicated — and, to say the least, more expensive.
For non-conference games on future home football schedules, Georgia will pay $875,000 to Louisiana (Lafayette) in 2010, $925,000 to New Mexico State in 2011 and $975,000 to North Texas in 2013.
It’s the cost of...