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As Mark Richt Turns 50, the Georgia Bulldogs Turn a Corner
I admit it: I dropped the ball. I had business in downtown Atlanta today, and I’m getting geared up for a weekend of University of Georgia athletics that includes a gymnastics meet, a men’s basket...
No One Told Wally Butts Jacksonville Was Hotter For Us Than For Them
The following passage appeared in Fumble, James Kirby’s account of the scandal (and subsequent landmark defamation case) arising out of The Saturday Evening Post’s allegation that Alabama head coa...
Debacle on the Plains: Georgia Gym Dogs Fall to Auburn for First Time Ever
The eighth-ranked Gym Dogs arrived in the so-called Loveliest Village on Friday night trailing a two-meet losing streak and needing a win in the worst way. Based upon past performance, Georgia could n...
Why It Is More Important for the Florida Gators to Get Worse Than for the Georgia Bulldogs to Get Better
Last Wednesday, Braves & Birds made some interesting observations about the Mark Richt era, one of which was this: Richt benefited from a weak SEC. . . . Richt's heyday corresponds with the conferen...
Three Almost Entirely Random Thoughts, One of Which is Relevant to SEC Football
Sleep is not my strong suit. For me, sleep is all about inertia: when my body is at rest, it tends to remain at rest, but, when my body is in motion, it tends to remain in motion. If I'm awake, I have...
Wednesday Night Dawg Bites: Mike Leach/Gene Stallings/Romeo Crennel/Billy Bob Thornton Edition
We're now into the thick of bowl season and there are a lot of stories swirling around the world of college football, both locally and nationally. Here, for whatever they might be worth, are a few ran...
A Decidedly Premature Independence Bowl Preview: Will the Georgia Bulldogs Face the Iowa State Cyclones or the Texas A&M Aggies?
Last night, while watching the Oregon Ducks defeat the Oregon St. Beavers, I found myself thinking ahead to bowl season. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Last night, while watching the Oregon Du...
Tennessee Volunteers 45, Georgia Bulldogs 19: Hitting Rock Bottom on Rocky Top
It was one thing to lose to the Oklahoma St. Cowboys. The Pokes are a rising program and it was a big deal for OSU to have the Georgia Bulldogs travel to Stillwater for a game. It was one thing to lo...
A Look at Paul Finebaum's Ranking of SEC Coaches in the Post-Bear Bryant Era
All right, I get it. The enterprise of ranking coaches is even more subjective than the enterprise of ranking teams, and is even more prone to being skewed by the agendas and biases of the folks doing...
How Good-Looking is Your Head Coach's Sister?: The Moral Case for Abolishing Overtime in College Football
It’s always interesting to me how current events invariably confirm our preconceived notions, in sports at least as much so as in politics, religion, and most of the rest of life. For instance, no m...
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