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Fox, Johnson continuing rebuilding jobs
ATHENS -- Famously, it was Trent Johnson who introduced Mark Fox to his future wife, Cindy, back when they worked together at Nevada. Nearly a decade later, when Fox was looking into becoming the head coach at Georgia, Johnson provided some more advice.
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Georgia falls short against Vanderbilt
ATHENS -- Georgia could point to little problems of its own making. Three-point shooting was abysmal. A lot of close shots went unfinished.
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Hot seat talk cools off for Richt
This time last year, the phrase “hot seat” was a sensitive one around Mark Richt. Now the Georgia head coach is joking about it. In fact, it apparently is part of his new stump speech for fans.
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Local sports briefs: Henley shoots 79 in Colombia
Macon native Russell Henley struggled to an 8-over-par 79 on Thursday in the first round of the Nationwide Tour’s Pacific Rubiales Colombia Championship in Bogota, Colombia.
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Georgia’s Commings suspended for two games
ATHENS -- Georgia is set to be without one of its top cornerbacks when it opens SEC play this season -- against potentially one of the conference’s top receivers.
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Georgia off the mark at South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- First, Mark Fox saw his former player hit the big shot. And then Fox watched as his current players couldn’t answer.
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Georgia tries to keep it level
ATHENS -- It seems strange to say now and would have been unthinkable a week ago, but Mark Fox has a new issue this week -- making sure his players aren’t overconfident.
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Living on the big stage: Georgia pair making most of rookie season in NBA
CHARLOTTE -- Trey Thompkins and Travis Leslie are sitting next to each other. They are happily answering questions about the present and past, and are about to be asked if they have any regrets.
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Local sports briefs: Richt to speak at Touchdown Club jamboree
National Signing Day is over, and spring football practice is only a few weeks away.
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College playoff is on the horizon
Our long national nightmare is almost over. The antiquated, senseless and unpopular system known as the college football postseason is finally set to be fixed.
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Caldwell-Pope, Georgia pull off upset
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope hadn’t done this a million times. It just looked that way.
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Georgia hopes to keep momentum going
ATHENS -- There was disbelief around the SEC on Wednesday night as word spread that struggling Georgia was routing Arkansas. In the Georgia locker room afterwards, it was less disbelief than a range of other emotions.
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UGA president sees football playoff on the horizon
ATHENS -- Georgia school president Michael Adams has long been an advocate for a college football playoff. Now Adams feels the momentum careening in the direction of that opinion.
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Georgia blows out Arkansas
ATHENS – There was the ridiculous rebound margin. There were also the numerous fallaway 3-pointers and second-chance points that had been unthinkable for this Georgia men’s basketball team.
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Bulldogs still going through ‘a process’
ATHENS -- Mark Fox did not change his facial expression. At times he was defiant, at other times preaching patience, as he has for most of this rough season. At one point he quoted John Wooden.
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Service group nourishes local and global communities
From the sidewalks of Athens to orphanages in Kenya, the University’s chapter of Nourish International is working to build communities. The group works to empower college students to fight global poverty through sustainable development, said Michelle Paterick, print media chair and a junior psychology major. The organization’s community service model was developed by a student [...]
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Linsanity a blip in America’s athlete deification craze
I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that Jeremy Lin’s game winning three-pointer against the Toronto Raptors on Valentine’s Day was my favorite sporting moment of my lifetime. I can only imagine I’ll remember where I was when that miraculous shot dropped in the same sepia-toned nostalgia-vision my parents must remember the moon landing [...]
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Discussion explores merits of mediation
A lot of fights weren’t started because of David Hooker and Raytheon Rawls. As mediators, both Hooker and Rawls have successfully helped resolve an array of conflicts all over the world. The Institute for African American Studies is hosting a lecture entitled “A Mediator’s Work,” a conversation between Rawls and Hooker as a part of [...]
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Stodden, America’s new role model?
America’s young women need a new role model. Gone are the glory days of the Tina Feys and Hilary Clintons — we now require a modern heroine who is more in tune with our struggles. Someone younger. Someone more connected to us through social media. Someone who’s not afraid to express herself artistically or sexually. [...]
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University student’s car broken into, backpack stolen
A University student’s car was broken into while parked at a house on Trailcreek Street Friday night, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report. The student went to her boyfriend’s house on Trailcreek Street on around 8 p.m. When she left around midnight, she noticed “her front passenger door ajar and items from her glovebox [...]
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Crossword, Feb. 22
ACROSS 1 Obeys 6 Iranian rulers’ title of old 10 “Be quiet!” 14 Worship 15 City in Texas 16 Hold __; clutch 17 Lasso wielder 18 Once again 19 Discontinue 20 Radiant 22 Have ambitions 24 Ameche and Johnson 25 Cooked over a grill 26 __ have a clue; is in the dark 29 Review [...]
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Caterpillar may give Athens’ economy a boost
Athens-Clarke and the surrounding counties should soon see a boost from one of the world’s leading manufacturers. Caterpillar, a manufacturer of industrial equipment, expects to break ground for a new plant within the next several weeks said Jim Dugan, a spokesman for the company. The project, which is planned to be completed late in 2013, [...]
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UGA places Commings on probation, orders community service, anger management
ATHENS — Sanders Commings has reached an “informal resolution” with the University of Georgia in the wake of his domestic violence arrest last month.
Kris Stevens, UGA’s director of Student Conduct, confirmed that his office “reached an agreement” with the Bulldogs’ senior cornerback to be on six months probation, do 25 hours of community service, attend an alcohol education class and an anger management class.
The school conducted its own independent investigation after Commings was arrested on Jan. 21 and charged with domestic violence/simple battery. Commings was determined to have “engaged in physical abuse, physical intimidation, coercion and/or other conduct that...
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Ten@10: Awards for Frank Sinkwich, Charley Trippi and Keith Marshall
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UGA not only football program dealing with domestic violence issues
ATHENS – I was traveling yesterday when UGA announced it had decided on a two-game suspension for starting cornerback Sanders Commings at the start of next season.
Even though Georgia coach Mark Richt has avoided commenting on the subject so far, a spokesman told me Richt decided on the two games Wednesday after a series of meetings with Commings and conducting his own investigation into the matter. Commings, 21, was arrested by UGA police on Jan. 21 and charged with domestic violence/simple battery for allegedly hitting his former girlfriend.
Commings is scheduled for a March 22 arraignment before...
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Georgia CB Sanders Commings gets 2-game suspension
Georgia starting cornerback Sanders Commings has been suspended from the first two games of the 2012 season by coach Mark Richt as a result of Commings’ arrest last month.
Commings, a rising senior, will miss the Sept. 1 season opener against Buffalo in Athens and the Sept. 8 SEC opener at Missouri, UGA announced Wednesday.
Commings was arrested by UGA Police on Jan. 21 on a charge of domestic violence/simple battery. He allegedly struck his girlfriend during a late-night argument in downtown Athens, police said at the time.
Commings has a March 22 arraignment scheduled in Athens-Clarke County state court. The incident...
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