Monthly Archives: February 2011
Georgia On Bubble with 19 Wins
DAWGS swept the season series from South Carolina by winning in the Classic City 64-48 Saturday night. Trey Thompkins went for twenty in a game punctuated by an abundance of Georgia dunks, by a myriad of players. The team seems to be gelling when we face average and poor teams, but we have not faired […]
Frustrated at Florida
UGA is a football school with an annual neutral site rivalry game; just that rarity alone ensures the magnitude of this rivalry. And we have some miles to go to catch them in both of the top two men’s sports. The Gators have now swept the Dawgs for the season in college basketball, as they […]
Cocktail Party
the classic poem (Copyright 2006, HV)… Cocktail Party This is what it comes down to. This, and Auburn, but this sets up the Auburn game. For the Auburn game to be truly huge, the Dawgs have to win this game. Every year…And, we have won it exactly 2 of the last 16 godforsaken years. Our […]
Georgia-Florida Week
The red hot University of Georgia Bulldogs are coming off a big win at Tennessee and facing their biggest rival this Thursday. At football schools, rivalries ring true, and the fact that the University of Florida has mostly owned the Dawgs at the site of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in Jacksonville for over […]
Big Win at Rocky Top
Travis Leslie was named best dunker in college by a panel of voters on ESPN’s College Gameday then had fifteen in Knoxville. UGA’s leading scorer on the day however was steady senior center Jeremy Price with twenty. Georgia got out to a big early lead, as has been the case in many close losses this […]
Collapse at Stegeman Coliseum
Georgia had outscored Vandy 50-37 in Athens before an utter collapse led to an eventual eight point loss. The guard tandem of Gerald Robinson Jr. and Dustin Ware held SEC leading scorer John Jenkins scoreless in the first half, only to see him erupt for nineteen points in the second half. Georgia has the talent […]
Dawgs Close Carolina Out
Playing with a dwindling lead in Columbia, South Carolina Saturday afternoon, Georgia basketball found enough moxie to persevere against a young but scrappy Gamecock squad. Georgia got off to a hot start to the contest and led by a wide margin at the intermission. Carolina got it cooking in the second half – especially late […]
Dawgs Lose to More Experienced Program
Playing at home against an opponent with an Elite Eight and two Sweet Sixteen trips in the past three seasons, UGA lost to a more mature basketball program Tuesday night. Xavier has lost only once in Atlantic 10 play and could have provided a much-needed boost in RPI if Georgia could have protected home court. […]
What it’s like to compete against Champ Bailey
ATHENS, GA – In this corner: Non-trad returning fourth-year junior and future DAWGS journalist, Han Vance. Versus: One of the greatest NFL defensive backs of all-time, then-freshman Champ Bailey. With a record of 3-1, we felt our team was close to evenly matched with anyone in the packed new SPACE Center. And our draw that night […]
Super Bowl MVPs
The University of Georgia is the only college to produce three Super Bowl Most Valuable Players. Safety Jake Scott won the award for the undefeated Miami Dolphins in 1973. In 1998, running back Terrell Davis won for the Denver Broncos. Hines Ward, who scored a then momentum-shifting touchdown at the end of the first half […]
Big Hairy Blawg 