Filed under: championships
Just wanted to get you all lathered up like me when I’m liquored up and them Dawgs are up!
Chomp at the Bit – Foam at the Mouth – Bark like a DAWG (right now in your offices):
The Cocktail Party – Stafford vs. Tebow II and now they Know we love to run the ball. Load that box.
Georgia at LSU – We were better than them last year, and they won it all. Bigtime Battle on the Bayou as we Bash Bengals.
Tennessee at Georgia – They are going for win 4 out of 5; they scored like 50 on us 2 years in a row. We must win this game.
Georgia at ‘Zona State – They were a top flight team last year, and it’s like in the desert, man.
Georgia at Carolina – Spurrier’s Columbia Cocks dared to beat royal us last year. Glad Van Gorder (already) left.
BAMA at Georgia – History. Bama is history. We are the team of the now. Power of now is DAWGS.
And that is just our top six games and does not mention Georgia at Auburn in the Oldest Rivalry in the South or Tech and Southern at Georgia in battles for state supremacy…GET FIRED UP, y’all.
“2008 is the Date” Copyright (C) 2008 HV
JT III Copyright © 2008 HV:
Joe Tereshinski
The Third
J T Three
Wore Number 13
At Georgia
Our Best Special Teams’ Player
And Backup Quarterback
His Fourth Season
On Campus
He Started Only One Game
That Year
FLORIDA
The Cocktail Party
He Made One
Phenomenal Play
He Dove Pitching the Ball
To The Running Back
The Running Back
Threw To Him
He Split Two Defenders
High In The Air
Then Dove For A
Touchdown
Our Only That Day
We Lost
Next Year
He Was A Fifth Year Senior
Not Just That
He Is Third Generation
Georgia Football Player
His Grandpa Played
His Dad Played
And Works For The Program
So, JT III Beat Out
The Younger Guys
He Was Named The Starter
He Struggled Some
He Got Hurt
He Came Back For Tennessee
Big Game
We Were Unbeaten
He Played A Phenomenal
Half Of Football
Then Fell Apart
In The Second Half
And Never Played Again
Life Aint Always Easy
Is It JT III?
Dawgs play Ole Miss this weekend in baseball, Foley Field, Athens. We have a 3.5 game lead in the SEC; Ole Miss is in first in the SEC West – big series. So Mississippi. Home of Uncle Billy. William Faulkner, yes sir, the greatest Southern writer of all-time, until now. I could not even read him – not at first. I was writing in a very modern vernacular, you know what I’m saying, homebiscuit. And I tried to educate myself on the classics. I have been a fan of now for sometime. The now that includes Tom Wolfe and Nick Hornby and David Sedaris and Dave Eggers…and ME. But I wanted to know then. So I re-read some and read others for the first time. I re-read and first-read various works by Uncle Ernie – HEMINGWAY is the heat. And I twice tried to read ole billie boy’s The Sound and the Fury and bogged down in the language, the antiquated vernacular. So I switched to Light in August and was challenged a bit but absolutely loved it. Now I sit half-way between Faulkner and Hemingway. Faulkner makes it all up with style and trick-after-trick and Hemingway reports on it and flat out says it; I do both. I love them both. They disliked one another, which is “interesting.” Anywho, I was walking down the street, my street, and I saw guess what name on the back of a Kell High School Lettermen’s Jacket??? Faulkner. “FAULKNER!” I cried out. The boy turned around and had his face, almost. My neighbor had The Name and the Face. His grandma jumped in saying, “He’s related to him too. His sister did a report on William Faulkner and found out exactly how Danny, his dad, was related to the writer.” “Wow, I’m a writer…I’m a huge fan of Faulkner. I was just studying Faulkner and looking at a picture of him before I left my house. You actually look a good bit like him…What position do you play?” “This is a band jacket.” “Oh what instrument then?” “French horn.” “Perfect.”
Filed under: College Football
ONLY FOUR PLAYERS WERE DRAFTED FROM UGA ON SUNDAY AND ALL FROM THE FIFTH ROUND ON. NO DAWG WAS TAKEN ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE DRAFT. ARE YOU SAD? I’M LICKING MY CHOPS THINKING ABOUT THE PLETHORA OF TALENT ON HAND IN THE CLASSIC CITY, AND I KNOW YOU ARE TOO. FACT: WE ALWAYS LOOK GOOD THIS TIME OF YEAR. FACT: WE HAVE UNDERPERFORMED UNDER GREAT EXPECTATIONS IN THE PAST. (WE HAVE OVERPERFORMED UNDER LESSENED EXPECTATIONS AS WELL.) AND THIS YEAR THE TALK, TALK, TALK HAS DOGGIE EARS RINGING. NOTHING LESS THAN AN SEC RING WILL BE OF ANY VALUE THIS YEAR, AND WE ARE ONE OF A VERY FEW FAVORITES TO WIN IT ALL: GEORGIA, USC (NO NOT YOU, YOU PERPETUAL .500 CHICKENS), OKLAHOMA, FLORIDA. WE CAN REALLY STEP BACK THIS YEAR WITHOUT MESSING UP IN VERY MANY GAMES. AND THE SCHEDULE IS THE SINGLE HARDEST IN THE COUNTRY. SO PLEASE PEPPER YOUR EXPECTATIONS WITH REALITY. I PREDICT WE WIN IT ALL. ON THE OTHER HAND, I PICKED USC (NOT YOU, CHICKENS) TO WIN IT ALL LAST YEAR, AND THEY LOOKED UP AT OREGON THE WHOLE SEASON AND PROBABLY WOULD HAVE WATCHED THE DUCKS WIN IT ALL HAD DIXON NOT TAKEN A FALL. THINGS HAPPEN IS ALL I’M SAYING, AND, FACT: MISTAKES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL ARE THE HARDEST TO OVERCOME IN ANY SPORT, COLLEGE OR PRO. THE LAST TWO TIMES GEORGIA HAD HYPE, WE STUMBLED (ONCE UNDER COACH D AND ONCE UNDER RICHT). HARSH REALITY COULD SET IN AT ARIZONA STATE OR LSU OR AUBURN, VERSUS BAMA OR TENNESSEE OR FLORIDA. OR NOT. WE COULD GO UNDEFEATED. FOR THE RECORD I PREDICT WE DROP A GAME, FINISH THE REGULAR SEASON AT NUMBER TWO AND PLAY FOR AND WIN THE TITLE. FACT: RIGHT NOW WE ARE ON A ROLL AS A PROGRAM.
THE DRAFT: HOWARD IS A PERFECT FIT FOR THE FAST D THE COLTS PLAY; BROWN BRINGS CHARACTER AND TALENT TO THE LAME DIRTY BIRDS; ADAMS IS BIG AND TOUGH ENOUGH FOR THAT CHI-TOWN GRIND; COUTU HAS A STRONG ENOUGH LEG AND THE NERVE TO KICK IN THAT WINDY STADIUM IN SEATTLE. NICE FITS.
Filed under: championships
I DON’T MENTION THE “OTHER” SPORTS MUCH, BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT BE AMAZED AT THE GYM DAWGS? FOUR STRAIGHT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ANYTHING IS PHENOMENAL. AND OUR DEBATE TEAM WON THE NATIONAL TITLE THIS YEAR, TOO. GO UGA! I HAVE A BA IN SPEECH COMM., AND WE ARE BA IN BASEBALL – BAD ASS. TOTALLY BAD ASS. GATORS TOOK A BEATING FROM US FRIDAY AS THE HITS KEEP ON COMING. I WAS UP IN THE CLUBS LAST NIGHT WITH MY SISTER THINKING THAT SPRING IN THE ATL IS GORGEOUS AND THE CITY IS FUN WHEN THE ROCKET SHIPS FOR BUILDINGS ARE ALL ILLUMINATED LIKE OUR BLONDES, AND HECK, MARIETTA IS A THING OF BEAUTY THIS TIME OF YEAR AND I’M GOING TO THE PARK WITH MY BOYS TOMORROW TO GET SOME FRESH AIR. LIFE IS GOOD. THIS IS OKAY…BUT I CAN’T WAIT FOR FALL, Y’ALL. NFL DRAFT TODAY. WE GO NUMBER TWO IN THE COUNTRY IN FOOTBALL AND BARELY LOSE ANYONE TO THE DRAFT. DID I MENTION LIFE IS GOOD?
Filed under: SEC
Today my readership on this here brand spanking new website of mine will go over 1,785…and what a year that was. The first state chartered public University opened its doors. Public College? What a concept. So, we started this thing, and we are chugging right along in 2008. Life is a song that carries us along. Hail to Georgia. Glory to Georgia. Geor-gia…Geor-gia. Georgia on my mind today, and THE flagship school plays Floor-duh in baseball this weekend. We invented American public college while they were still a part of Spain. [North Carolina and Georgia have a wee bit of beef because UNC had a charter before we did (1783) - we had a school first (1785 vs. 1787) - WE ARE OLDEST! You were just a bunch of talk, UNC, like your hoops' fans, a bunch of talk. We went out and did it.] Nobody has dared to talk louder than the yankees and rednecks and johnny-come-lately nouveau riche idiots that clamor about the MIGHTY GATORS. Historically speaking, Gators, you aren’t exactly BAMA. You won your first football title in the SEC in the 1990’s, just yesterday. You have 2 National Titles in basketball and 2 in football. Kudos for a nice run but you do not stand above this conference…and we aim to prove it to you. We will score 40 points on you again in football, count on it. You will lose. But this is baseball season. And we must play at your little sweat box in your little ugly as hell swamp this weekend. Nothing Classic about Gainesville, nor very Urban. Our last 3 SEC series saw us go 8-0-1, so I do expect us to drop a game to you. I understand the law of averages. This is baseball. I say we win 2 of 3, taking another series. This one from our overall biggest rival. And all you Mighty Gators that say football is all that matters, check the series’ history for a lesson in Doggie Doiminance. F**k Florida.
Filed under: College Baseball
Them Diamond Dawgs are blinging…and winning. Georgia is off to the best conference start in school history (14-3-1 SEC). It is time to get excited about baseball, y’all. The new number 5 team (Collegiate Baseball poll, Monday) in this great nation plays one of my (other) family schools today in baseball. ATHENS, GA, Foley Field, 5pm. My ex-wife got her 3rd degree (after 2 from the Concrete Campus at Georgia State - where she was a DJ at Album 88) from Kennesaw. The oldest of my 3 baby brothers received his Master’s from Kennesaw after undergrad at GEORGIA and actually routes for “them” in basketball when they happen to play “us.” My literary manager went to Kennesaw – he is one of the biggest Dawgs’ football fans I know. So KSU is a family school*…and I hope we crush them in baseball. We won at KSU. They won at UGA. Are we really gonna drop the annual series to them? Go Dawgs! Floor-duh is next; we play at Floor-duh starting friday. Have I mentioned I don’t like them very much?
(*other family schools: Texas Christian University, Life University, Warren Wilson College, Nebraska Wesleyan, Texas A&M, Rice University, Lassiter High, Marietta High, Oakwood High)
ONE: WHEN AUBURN WAS ON THE NATION’S LONGEST WINNING STREAK IN FOOTBALL, AND WE WERE NOT A VERY GOOD TEAM. WE HAD ERIC ZEIER AT QUARTERBACK AND HAD LOOKED TO BE A BETTER TEAM THAN WE ACTUALLY WERE. WE HAD DEFENSE ISSUES AND O-LINE ISSUES AND RUNNING BACK INJURY ISSUES THAT SEASON. BUT WE PUT IT TOGETHER LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE A COMEBACK AND TIE AUBURN…IT FELT LIKE A WIN. TWO: YESTERDAY IN BASEBALL. TRAILING 10-3 LATE, OUR DIAMOND DOGS SURGED BACK TO TIE LSU 10-10, SALVAGING A 2-0-1 MARK IN THE SERIES. WE WERE NOT BEATEN; WE HAVE NOT BEEN BEATEN IN 11 SEC GAMES AND 3 SEC SERIES IN A ROW. IT WAS AWESOME. LSU IS NOT GREAT THIS YEAR IN BASEBALL – IN FACT LSUCKS – BUT THEY ARE A PROGRAM OF NOTE IN BASEBALL AND THEY WERE AT HOME AND WE WERE DOWN 7 RUNS TO THEM. WE ARE ON ONE HELL OF A RUN. AND THE CURRENT RULE IN COLLEGE BASEBALL SAYS, IF YOU HAVE A PLANE TO CATCH AT X-O’CLOCK, YOU LEAVE TO CATCH THE FLIGHT REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME OF THE GAME. THE OUTCOME SAID 10-10 AT THE TIME WE HAD TO ROLL OUT, BENGALS. IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN A WIN…BUT YOU DID NOT BEAT US!!!
Unbelievable run continues as Diamond Dawgs deck La Tigres 9-8. LSU is our latest victim, and the count is now 10 straight SEC games as we guaranteed a series victory to go with our last two sweeps. Sweep is on today, so get your brooms out. For those many baseball fans unable to attend, a replay of the game will be on CSS at 9 PM. Something to switch to: the Playoff Bound Atlanta Hawks will be playing The Beast of the East in Boston around the same time. Rather than talk about the weakness of ATL pro sports, I choose to refresh on the Dominance on Display at UGA:
FOOTBALL: Number 2 in the Nation. Would probably have been favored to win a playoff. As you may know, we look pretty good next year, too.
Basketball: SEC Champions. Strong recruiting class.
Baseball: Leading the SEC. The hottest team in the country.
Academic Rank in Public Colleges and Universities: #18 this year and rising.
Why? Sure, Richt is now the greatest CEO in football. And the hoop dawgs were due, and mother nature helped us beat Kentucky. And baseball has been building, and Coach Perno and his staff have done a nice job of coaching up after a tough year last year. But here is the truth: DAMON EVANS is the CEO of the DAWGSNation, and he was hand-selected by Dooley as an heir apparent. Our rather fine President, Michael Adams (the one who is building our ascending academic reputation) made the very tough call to go young, but the continuity of the Nation can be firmly attributed to the genius and passion and consistency of one Vincent Dooley. Damon is doing a hell of a good job because we are winning…and striving to do things the best way. KUDUS to DOOLEY!
Filed under: Herschel Walker
THE greatest college athlete of all-time is a good business person and man. That’s, like totally, three identities right there. Not to mention he went to class, ate ice cream and tied his shoes at various stages of his development. A disorder is simply a group of behaviors and thoughts packaged into a neat definition. I usually enjoy my ADHD but my OCD can drive me nuts. Is it “real” or is life just a box of chocolates? The name for Herschel the Great’s ”disorder” is abbreviated “DID,” and did Herschel in fact have multiple personalities throughout his career(s) is the question. Do we all??? He believes his multi-faceted and mostly beneficient life to be somewhat unique in its compartmental nature or he would not have written the book. He simply does not want any more money bad enough to fabricate something this bizarre. Read and judge for yourselves, or better yet, JUDGE NOT lest you be judged. That was my bible-thumper me saying that, I guess. I do know this much: My Herschel Walker action figure knows his place on the bookshelf as well as he knows the endzone…and he is THE greatest college athlete (toy) of all-time. Mr. Walker is a respectful and deservedly well-respected man. I will read his book and suggest you do, too. Right after you read mine, WHAT IT FELT LIKE, $18. That was my salesman me that said that. You can order right here on my page. It covers the many emotions of one rabid Dawgs’ fan throughout one serious rollercoaster of a season, 2007. I was up/down/high/low. A poet, a writer, a journalist, a business person, a friend, a dad, a mean-spirited adversarial fan and a good Christian. And that was just one season.
