Category College Baseball
Now, It’s Really Football Season
After the Hoop Dawgs were bounced from the first round after late selection for the NCAA basketball tournament, Georgia fans found focus on spring football and an impending rebound from Coach Mark Richt’s first ever losing season (6-7). The baseball program, up and down all season, suddenly surged onto the radar of the average Georgia […]
Diamond Dawgs Face NCAA Elimination Game
Playing far from home in the regionals of the NCAA baseball tournament, UGA dropped a close opening game to Creighton 2-1 Friday in Corvallis, Oregon. All of the scoring by both squads came in the 7th inning of the defensive struggle. Georgia faced the toughest schedule in the nation this season and barely survived the […]
Diamond Dawgs Take Tech at The Ted
UGA did much of their damage to 9th-ranked Georgia Tech in the 4th inning and then added an insurance run late, which proved unnecessary as the DAWGS beat their arch rival Yellow Jackets by 2 runs in front of over 18,000 fans. Tech beat Georgia in 2 earlier match-ups this season, so the UGA football-basketball-baseball […]
UGA Baseball Back on Track
Playing at Dodgers Stadium in scenic Chavez Ravine, Georgia baseball completed a perfect week with a defeat of St. Mary’s. On the quick West Coast trip, Georgia also defeated USC and #5 UCLA. Earlier in the week, UGA opened SEC play with a victory over BAMA in the Braves minor league stadium in Lawrenceville and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Homecoming for AD McGarity
Athens-native, UGA alum, and University of Florida Assistant Athletic Director, Greg McGarity will be named the new University of Georgia Athletic Director Friday. The era of leadership as former player Damon Evans supplanted legendary coach Vince Dooley was briefer than expected, but basically solid. Until the end, when Evans was ousted for DUI, he was […]
Parallel DawgsNations
Interesting the parallels between the football and baseball programs at GEORGIA. Two seasons ago, both finished as National Runners Up. UGA football smoked Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl, after being outvoted in favor of LSU. UGA baseball was up a game in the best of three College World Series final series, before dropping two consecutive […]
Spring Musings
New hoops coach Mark Fox was in awe of the red-and black crowd at halftime. And Big Hairy Blawg was on scene too for a beautiful saturday in Athens. It was the G-Day Game and the fans came out in mass for the free scrimmage, broadcast live on ESPN. Before and after you could have […]
Georgia Baseball Hero Ryan Piesel Interviewed
Han Vance interview with Ryan Piesel, outgoing University of Georgia third baseman and current member of the Colorado Rockies organization: Vance: One thing I prefer in baseball over football is that you can see the facial expressions of the players more. It’s obvious from your expressions that you don’t like losing, and I am […]
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