Loran Smith

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Smith: CBS no more

Loran Smith

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

For the following, I am wearing the hat of a fan. I don’t know all the details of the Southeastern Conference’s breakup with CBS, but I am going to miss those guys. Following this weekend, the CBS network will no longer carry SEC football as it has since 1996.

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Smith: I’m thankful …

Loran Smith

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Each of us is given the gift of 86,400 seconds each day. How often have you used one of those seconds to say, “Thank you,” to those who extend a helping hand or those who are doing good for the world? It may be a neighbor, a family member, a waitress, a bellman, a construction worker, or a friend.

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Smith: Facing Tennessee

Loran Smith

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Although Georgia and Tennessee competed in football in the early 1900s, the two teams did not play each other from 1937 to 1968. Over the years I have been asked about that but don’t know exactly why there was no competition between the two schools.

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Smith: Gen. Robert Neyland

Loran Smith

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

When Georgia opened the season in 1959 between the hedges against Alabama, one of the press box luminaries in attendance was Tennessee’s General Robert Neyland. That caused quite a stir. In the first quarter, Bill Godfrey burst through the line of scrimmage and dashed 40 yards for a touchdown.

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Smith: Henderson and Worley

Loran Smith

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

In sports, we always flash back to a time when there was a singular moment that remains unforgettable. You always enjoy reliving those memorable plays and games – precious memories, how they linger.

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Crane: The SEC and me

Bill Crane

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Thankfully, as a nation, we still have sport and play and rivalries and school spirit, which reward and embrace us, giving us new experiences and memories, atop layers of the old.

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Smith: Arnold Harrison

Loran Smith

Thursday, October 19, 2023

At a prosperous automobile dealership, it seems like everyone is always in motion. Nothing is idling except for a smooth-running engine that has just been finely tuned to make a satisfied customer even more satisfied.

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Smith: Music City

Loran Smith

Thursday, October 12, 2023

With all the conference realignment that has taken place, you hear about all the travel costs and headaches to come with expansion, which will have, in the Big Ten, UCLA and Southern Cal playing in New Brunswick, N.J., and State College, Pa.

Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) during Georgia’s game against Auburn on Pat Dye Field at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

Smith: Well-rounded tight end Brock Bowers becoming Georgia legend

Loran Smith

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

If you talk with Brock Bowers about his passions for hunting and fishing and know nothing about his background, you might take him for a native Georgian. He could hail from Americus, Valdosta, or Albany. Or perhaps the hills of Habersham.

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Smith: Georgia grad Pat Dye made huge impact at Auburn

Loran Smith

Thursday, September 28, 2023

A journey over to Auburn always brings about reflections of times spent with Pat Dye on his farm near Notasulga, Alabama, which is a little less than 13 miles from the campus where he spent almost a dozen years as head football coach and athletic director.

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