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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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Herschel’s new book; UGA’s hoops future
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Wow, what a weird day. I meant to post earlier but I ended up spending all afternoon chasing a bizarre story on Herschel Walker.
If you haven’t seen it yet, apparently Walker has written an autobiography called “Breaking Free” that will be published by Simon and Schuster and released on August 12 this summer. It’s about — and I confirmed this through the publisher — Walker living with multiple-personality disorder.
Very little information is available about the book (which you can preorder for $24.95 at Amazon.com) and, as anybody in this business can tell you, you can get the Pope on the phone easier than you can Herschel Walker. So I’ve left messages all over the place but we can’t reach him to talk about it.
Meanwhile, I talked to Vince Dooley and Frank Ros, two of Herschel’s closest friends here in Georgia, and neither of them knew anything about Herschel having MPD or any other psychological disorder and certainly not that he was writing a book about it. So it’s a strange deal.
Anyway, so that’s what I’ve been doing. I did want to try to generate some talk about the basketball team and their exploits. They need to learn to close out games a little better but they’re actually playing OK considering all the talent they’re missing.
On that note, I ran into Trey Thompkins and his dad at a Georgia game the other day and they’re really excited about joining the Bulldogs next season. Howard Jr, Trey’s dad, really believes his son can give them what they’re missing right now, and that’s a consistent scorer.
Trey’s certainly getting it done at Wesleyan this season. He’s averaging 30 points and 10 rebounds a game and he needs 28 points against Buford Friday night to reach 2,000 for his career. That’s pretty good considering he will have played only two seasons at Wesleyan after spending last year at Oak Hill Academy.
I do think the future shows some promise at Georgia but they definitely need to import more talent, especially along the lines of an explosive wing type.
So there you go. Sorry for the lateness. Feel free to weigh in on Herschel or basketball or football or whatever. I’ll try to stay tuned.
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