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.

Smith: The return of Mike Bobo

While I prefer never to begin any essay or treatise with anything negative, I realize that images sometimes become entrenched and often are inaccurate. Dean Martin, for example, was not an alcoholic. The glass you often saw in his hand contained apple juice.

Smith: Hall of Famer Mark Richt

The State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame inducted a blue-ribbon class this past weekend— players, coaches, and administrators—highlighted by the inclusion of former Bulldog football coach Mark Richt. The Hall has seldom honored a more popular figure in our state.

Smith: Todd Monken leaves UGA after building legacy

While I didn’t resort to keeping a tally sheet, I must have been asked three dozen times or more if I thought Todd Monken would be leaving Georgia for the National Football League. The answer was that I had no idea; and furthermore, that nobody except the coach himself knew.

Smith: Strawberries in winter on the way

Now that some time has elapsed since Kentucky went down in hoops defeat to the upstart Bulldogs, it is nice to savor not only the victory, but what might come about.