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, April 30, 2007
NFL draft kind to Dogs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s Monday of a new week and Georgia athletes are putting the finishing touches on their seasons and readying for exams. Today’s blog will be a potpurri. I’m just going to clean out my notebooks — and my head — and you guys feel free to jump on anything you want.
Interesting to see Georgia’s Quentin Moses go ahead teammate Charles Johnson in this past weekend’s NFL draft and even more interesting to hear draft expert Mel Kiper comment on the situation. Paraphrasing, Kiper said Johnson would have been a top 15 pick next year if he had stayed at Georgia for his senior season. Of course, he said thme same thing last year about Moses, who probably lost $1 million by NOT coming out after his junior season.
Unlike a lot of Georgia fans, I don’t see it as a disappointment that the Bulldogs had only four players drafted this year. If you ask me, it means they didn’t lose their best talent off the team. Also, I’m betting a few of those guys getting free-agent looks will stick.
The baseball team still has three series to go but it looks like it’s going to miss out on the SEC tournament. If that holds true, it will continue a strange trend under coach David Perno in which they rarely make the tourney in consecutive years and usually miss it in odd years (2003, 2005 and 2007).
I did a story on the Georgia men’s tennis team that is supposed to run in Tuesday’s paper and may be up on the website later today. Had a national tennis guy tell me that the No. 1-ranked and undefeated Bulldogs (26-0) will have to be considered among the greatest college tennis teams of all time if they run the table this year. They went 30-1 last year and have slaughtered virtually every team they’ve faced this year, including the Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 teams. The NCAA Selection Show is Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. (ESPN News), Georgia will host a first-and second-round regional May 11-13 in Athens and the Dan Magill Tennis Complex is the site of the championship rounds May 17-28.
Speaking of dynasties, coach Suzanne Yoculan brought home her eighth gymnastics national championship Monday even after losing two of her best gymnasts to injuries. This proves once again that Yoculan is one of the best big-event coaches of all time in any sport. There have been rumblings of retirement. Georgia can only hope not.
With the gymnastics title in the bag, Georgia has a realistic chance to claim four more national championships. The Bulldogs are ranked in the top 3 nationally in men’s golf and women’s golf and men’s and women’s tennis. All have won national titles before.
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