UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Monday, January 22, 2007
After Bama, how will Dogs respond?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Well, by now most of you probably saw or read about the last half-minute of the Alabama game. Georgia had a couple of tough calls go against it and lost on a 14-foot, buzzer-beating leaner by Ronald Steele, who traveled before he released the final shot.
Such is life on the road in the SEC.
As a sports writer, it was a mess after that game. I was having to track down the head referee, the supervisor of officials, getting comments from the coaches and players. All the while scrambling around trying to get a look at the TV replay myself (the press row seats at Coleman Coliseum are awful when the players stand up on the team benches).
I got some e-mails from Bama fans claiming I was whining for Georgia and being a homer and such. As I wrote back to them, it wasn’t ME who had the problem with the calls, it was Georgia’s coaches and players, the team I cover, and they were asking for all kinds of clarifications and such. So that’s the story I was following and reported on. SEC officials said they screwed up on the shot-clock play but did not admit missing a walking call on Steele, though replays have since shown clearly that he did.
However, in making sure I got all the details on that situation, it was probably glossed over what a tremendous job Bama did in mounting such a big, dramatic comeback. They fought hard to get back into the game.
The bigger concern for Georgia is not being able to make a 19-point lead stand up. The Bulldogs were ahead 41-22 with five minutes left in the first half. So the bottom line is, they were out-scored 56-35 over the last 24:48 of that game. That’s what all the Georgia players were saying over at Stegeman on Monday: It shouldn’t have come down to that. And now the Dogs are 3-2 in the SEC instead of 4-1.
Now the question is how does Georgia respond? They have No. 25 Kentucky coming to Athens Wednesday night followed by LSU on Sunday. Huge games. Should be great games.
By the way, the Kentucky game will tip off at 7 p.m., not 8 p.m. as was listed on the media guide and a lot of other things. The Dogs are hoping for a full house. Anybody planning on going?
So who all saw the Alabama game live? Who saw replays? Was Georgia jobbed, as many team officials claim?
Does the loss make you any less excited about the Kentucky and LSU games this week?
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