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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Friday, January 26, 2007
A salute to Kevin Brophy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Running a little late, so I apologize for the brevity of today’s blog. Just got back from Stegeman Coliseum and interviewing coaches and players about Sunday’s game against LSU.
As you all probably know, there is going to be a tribute BEFORE the game to the late Kevin Brophy, the Australian player who was killed in a car accident in Greensboro last summer. Coach Dennis Felton asked me to ask our readers to please get to the game early as the ceremony will begin several minutes before the scheduled 3:05 p.m. tipoff. He suggests being there by 2:45.
Brophy’s entire family, his parents, two brothers and sister, plus his UGA girlfriend, Molly Romage, and her family, will be in attendance. His family flew all the way from Melbourne just this week. They were actually in attendance at the Kentucky game. Anybody wondering what got into Dave Bliss that night needs only to know that he and Broph were roommates and best friends and Bliss was “inspired” as the Bulldogs mounted a comeback.
Felton said he’s been “an emotional wreck” with the Brophys in town and the memories of gregarious Aussie pouring over him and the team. They all say it’s going to be a very emotional.
Not that it really matters in the grand scheme of things, but how do you think the tribue might affect the Bulldogs’ play?
I spoke with Eamonn Brophy, Kevin’s father, and am writing a story for Sunday’s paper. He said the outpouring his family has received from the Georgia people has been unbelievable. He called the trip to Athens this week “a pilgrimage” for his whole family to see the place Kevin loved so much.
On that note, if you feel like it, feel free to write a personal note to Brophys here on the blog and I’ll see that the family gets them before they leave town.
As always, thanks for tuning in.
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