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Smith: Hall of Fame hopes for Patton

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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Sometimes, it can be challenging to evaluate an athlete’s makeup and determine what’s most significant to his or her success.

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Smith: Dawgs take on Tigers

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Georgia and Clemson met for the first time on the Gridiron in 1897 in Athens, and the Bulldogs won 24-0. The two teams have met intermittently through the years, with the Bulldogs holding a 43-18-4 lead.

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Smith: Callihan’s Mountain Retreat

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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Sapphire, North Carolina, a well-reputed and highly inviting plateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains, has always been a garden spot for visitors and residents alike with a bent for recreation and temperate days and nights that help bring about bountiful outdoor fulfillment.

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Smith: Football today

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

There is so much uneasiness about college football today. While I am comfortable with paying the players, I cannot help but ask, shouldn’t there be some guardrails and respect for the grand ole game’s traditions? Some structure and an overseeing body to bring about common-sense regulation?

Erk Russell was Georgia football's defensive coordinator for 17 years and helped start the football program at Georgia Southern. (Photo Courtesy of the UGA Hargrett Library)

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Smith: Erk Russell tribute planned for Letterman’s Club at UGA

Loran Smith

Thursday, August 8, 2024

As another football season is about to get underway, I thought about all the lustful and enduring praise for offensive football, which has always been the talk of the town. I recalled how the late Erk Russell joined in, too, but underneath, he was plotting and scheming for an equalizer.

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Smith: The Chatsworth Cheetah, Ladd McConkey

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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

After a brief respite in the hills of Northwest Georgia, the Chatsworth Cheetah—a most appropriate byname for Ladd McConkey—has returned to Los Angeles with his sights set on continuing his football career with the Chargers.

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Smith: Castronis turns 100

Loran Smith

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Orlean Castronis is a retired former journalist, the widow of one of the most popular players and coaches ever to wear the Red and Black, and likely the only living person to have seen Harry Mehre coach a game live between the hedges of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium.

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Smith: Georgia T&F coach Caryl Smith Gilbert

Loran Smith

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Caryl Smith-Gilbert is the director of the men’s and women’s track teams at the University of Georgia; if you yawn and move on about your day, be aware that track in these parts is likely to be sensational on her watch ¬– just give her competitive facilities, and you’ll see.

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Smith: Summer sports satisfy in Europe

Loran Smith

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

The fortnight it takes to determine the various champions of Wimbledon, one of the classiest sporting events worldwide, is likely on every true sports aficionado’s bucket list. Wimbledon is the equal of the Masters golf tournament and the Kentucky Derby in class.

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Smith: Willie Mays

Loran Smith

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The tributes to Willie Mays last week were bittersweet. Of course, he deserved all the lofty praise, but there was the regret of him having to endure the segregation, dissent, and humiliation of his native South, growing up in Westfield, Ala., nine miles west of Birmingham.

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