I write this post as a critical reflection on Kyle’s recent post. In offering this critical response, I am doing so as a philosophical fellow conservative. I am not attacking Kyle’s conservatism, I am simply questioning the way in which he applies it.

I understand Kyle’s main point that local, particular connections are to be valued over more distant, abstract connections. But if every member of the current SEC starts formulating a new dream league on this basis from their own perspective, what do we end up with? The truth is that breaking off from the SEC is itself a non-conservative move at this point. Or at least, so it seems to me.

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My dad informed me last night that if I can find tickets to the UGA/Missouri game, he would pay for airfare, hotel, etc. Um yes please. I've never bought a ticket to an away game so I am deferring to my fellow dawg fans on this one. Where in the world can I find these tickets?? StubHub? Ebay? And I would prefer not to spend my life's savings on them if possible. Your advice is much appreciated. :)

Yeah, so it's already started. There's been trades. An SEC player has gone to the Browns, where he can be the next "ordinary" RB to try and replace the great Jim Brown.

Talk about your favorite NFL teams. Where Cordy Glenn will go, where he should go, and anything else about that wrong level of the great game of football. The local Falcons don't have a 1st round pick, but they did make a great trade giving up a 7th for Asante Samuel (because you can get starting CBs in the 7th round apparently.

It's the Dawgsports NFL draft open thread. Have fun. Or you can talk about that great episode of Community I just watched.

This is a new fanpost, because I am tired of looking at the former top fanpost of "new UGA fight song". With no disrespect, I don't need a new UGA fightsong, and I am proud no one said a thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNRFUrCZFY

Check out the music vid!

Featuring S.N.I.P.A.
Written by Dodd Ferrelle
Backing Track by Kameon Prather

**several fans and players were featured in this music video! see if you made a cameo!

All proceeds made from the download of this song go directly to the UGA Terry College of Business program. It is expected to be played in the stadium for the upcoming season. Everyone take a listen and get pumped up for football season!!

GO DAWGS!

The Georgia women's tennis team avenged their late-season loss to Western Division champs Alabama by defeating the Tide in today's SEC Championship Tournament semifinals 4-2 in Oxford.

Women's Recap

The men also advanced to the conference championship match by defeating Mississippi State on the other Bulldogs' home court. It was a nailbiter: after pulling ahead 2-0 after winning the doubles point and the first singles match to finish, the Other Bulldogs fought back to take a 3-2 lead. UGA's berth in the championship match was secured in the last two singles matches, including a much-welcomed win at the No. 1 spot by Wil Spencer.

Men's Recap

Both championships will be held tomorrow afternoon. The men will play the winner of Ole Miss versus Kentucky (the Wildcats lead 1-0). The women will have a chance to make up for another regular-season loss when they face Florida, who took down Ole Miss 4-0 today.

This morning, after their first-round byes, the men's and women's tennis teams competed in the Southeastern Conference Championship Tournament quarterfinals in Starkville and Oxford, respectively. Unlike typical matches during the regular season, the compressed scheduling of the tournament means that play continues only until one team clinches the fourth of the seven possible points to determine a winner.

Your UGA men soundly defeated Auburn by a 4-0 score. The Bulldog women likewise downed the USC Gamecocks 4-0. The ladies accomplished this feat without freshman sensation Lauren Herring, who normally plays at the No. 2 spot in doubles and singles. Lauren has an arm injury that's kept her out of action.

The men's team's participation in the tournament resumes tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. local time (noon actual time) against the winner of Tennessee versus Mississippi State, currently under way (the other Bulldogs lead 1-0). The women get back to the courts tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. local (11:00 here in the east) against the winner of Alabama/Arkansas (Bama leads 1-0).

UPDATE: The women's semifinal opponent will be Bama, who defeated Arkansas 4-0. The Lady Crimson Tide (there's something very wrong with that) finished one spot ahead of the Dawgs in the regular-season conference standings and defeated UGA 4-3 in the season's antepenultimate match. Let's get that one back.

UPDATE THE SECOND: Mississippi State just staved off a comeback attempt by the Vols to win 4-2, earning a spot opposite the UGA men in tomorrow's semifinals.

As a reminder, the Gym Dogs are competing in the first round of the NCAA Championships tonight at 6:00 at the Arena at Gwinnett.

Loath as we are to link to a certain news source in Atlanta, this article is particularly noteworthy. The following quote from Jay Clark stuck out to me most:

We're not going to ‘out-difficulty' anybody; we know that. We're not going to do some of the crazy big skills you'll see some of the other teams do. But we're going to concentrate on being a super-clean team. Hit every handstand; stick all our landings. Every year that's what decides championships.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between Jay Clark and Suzanne Yoculan. Yoculan's teams shot for the moon, and their degrees of difficulty were often the highest in the competition. Not only that, but they nailed those routines more often than not.

Jay Clark is taking the "safe route." And at the top levels of intercollegiate competition, the safe route gets you fired.

I know most of the commenters and authors here at DawgSports don't follow the NFL. However, for those of us that do and happen to cheer for the Falcons, a trip to Columbia just got some icing on the cake with the Falcons playing in Kansas City that Sunday. I can't wait to welcome Mizzou to the SEC and getting to watch the Falcons on Sunday at Arrowhead after making the 2 hour drive is icing on the cake. Go Dawgs!

Fresh off a series win against the Black Bears Rebels baseball team of the flagship school of the state that boasts being rated last in the country in high school graduation rates and teenage pregnancy, the Diamond Dawgs host a free game at Foley Field this afternoon against Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

For those of us who bemoan UGA's tough drug testing policy, all I can say is thank God our policies aren't as strict as Liberty's. Check out The Liberty Way to read some of the requirements of their code of conduct. Among my favorites are the requirements that hand-holding is the only acceptable form of physical contact between students of opposite genders, the 10 pm curfew on Thursday nights, the interpretation that R-rated movies are never acceptable (and some G and PG movies are also not allowed), and video games must be limited to those played by 4-year-olds.

H/T to the guys from the Brick House for the info. Follow them on twitter @pernospenthouse. Hope to see a few of you today at Foley!