Smith: Remembering Missouri summers

Owing to a golf friendship, there was an annual trip to Kansas City in June for several years, which allowed me the opportunity to explore the Show Me State, which reminded me so much of our own Peach State. Missouri and Georgia feature almost identical geography.

Smith: Red Grange

Red Grange, the great Illinois halfback, who scored six touchdowns against Michigan in 1924, lived out his life at Indian Lake Estates in Central Florida, about a hundred miles south of Orlando.

Smith: The multi-faceted Fred Barber

This is a flashback to the times of Fred Barber, Georgia’s classic fullback of yesteryear, one who could have originated the time-honored football term: “Hardnosed.” A native of Bainbridge, Barber grew up with equal helpings of emotional capital for the outdoors and Friday Night Lights.

Smith: Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron and reflecting on America's pastime

The original Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built,” was constructed one-hundred years ago for the opening of the 1923 season. The Yankees had been playing their games at the Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants.

Smith: Remembering when cotton was king

In the last fortnight, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where cotton was making its way toward harvest.

Smith: Generations of Philly Dawgs

When the Eagles drafted Georgia’s Nolan Smith soon after having picked Jalen Carter, a couple of calls came in regarding the foursome of Bulldogs on the Philadelphia roster, with Nakobe Dean and Jordan Davis has joined the team a year earlier.

Smith: Wesley Walls

CHARLOTTE – With a population of 874,579 as proclaimed by the last census, the Queen City of Charlotte is the 16th most populous city in the U. S. but maintains a small-town feel. Like Atlanta in the ’60s. There is traffic, but it is not debilitating.

Smith: Final thoughts on The Masters

Don’t know if you noticed that almost half the field at the Masters last week – at least 30 – were “foreigners.” That would include past champions such as Jose Maria Olazabal and Gary Player, as well as former Bulldog golfer Sepp Straka, a native of Austria.

Smith: Kim Braswell

Kim Braswell, the left-footed placement practitioner for the Georgia Bulldogs in 1970-72 – one of the last of the “toe” kickers – has written a book. It probably won’t make the best-sellers list, but it is an enlightening treatise about a young man who succeeded despite deafness and diabetes.

Smith: Jackie Bradford

March Madness to a basketball aficionado is pulsating and enrapturing – it satiates the hunger for intense competition like mana from heaven. Perhaps its appeal is so widespread because it encompasses so many hopefuls across the land.