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hoop hounds report
Senior Day in Athens and strong senior guards Kenny Gaines and Charles Mann don’t want to sail off into the ol’ sunset without ever making a late season run. Three years ago, I was working on the SLINGSHOT FESTIVAL promo and press team and shook off a late night of Classic City working-sic-imbibing in time […]
FULLBACK U LOSES A GREAT:
Collision sports of various sorts are all I know, really. Skateboarding tastes like pavement. I could slam dunk hard and was a shot blocker and always the fouling enforcer, on every basketball team I played on, and I’d seek contact in the lane so I could go to the line and drain…their will to win. […]
Welcome to the Jungle
UGA may be having a good year, but we do not have a road win against a rival yet. Florida is a neutral site, and we suddenly own Jacksonville. The Vols came to the Classic City, as will little Georgia Tech. Mizzou was not exactly an SEC site; it was all too novel for the […]
Basketball Season Under Way
Han Vance of Big Hairy Blawg has joined as a regular contributor to The Georgia Playbook, an all-sports UGA online magazine with monthly issues available to view at http://www.thegeorgiaplaybook.com – here is a basketball preview for the Nov. issue: Senior Guards Lead Young Hoop Hounds (by Han Vance): As UGA clawed to an NCAA berth […]
Decadent Depravity of College Football
Decadent Depravity of College Football Classic City Gonzo Journalism ~ My tribute to the sports writing of the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Asleep facedown in the greenery of the woods, near where the initiators remain immortalized for founding the first state-chartered public university in this great nation, the fear and loathing sets in upon […]
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 Still Alive in NCAA Regionals
In Corvallis, Oregon, behind Levi Hyams 4-of-5 performance Georgia beat Arkansas-Little Rock Saturday. Playing in an NCAA tournament elimination game, the baseball team stayed alive by easily winning 7-3. After a decent run in the SEC tournament in Hoover, Alabama, UGA dropped a close opening game to Creighton on Friday, which knocked them into the […]
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 […]
Why Washington Was Worst Draw for UGA
The University of Georgia was in last place in the SEC last season in men’s basketball and made a remarkable turnaround in year two of the coach Mark Fox era. At 21-11, UGA has a decent record, and the Dawgs are battle-tested from having been in the rugged SEC East, playing twice each against fellow […]
How UGA Supplanted Tech as State’s Top Program
The University of Georgia had it cooking with my buddy Ezra Williams from Marietta High School and the Hayes brothers (Jarvis and Jonas). UGA looked to be at least a 3 seed in the NCAA tourney and was widely considered a major threat to win the SEC basketball tournament…and then Tony Coles happened. He shed […]
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