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, April 25, 2008
Gym Dogs, baseball and NFL draft
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Afternoon folks. All the data and information we’ve collected in recent years tells us there aren’t a lot of you out there perusing the Internet or our newspaper’s site in particular on Friday afternoon’s. Seems a lot of you are reading us at work and, consequently, a lot of you are cutting out early on Fridays.
Nonetheless, I wanted to get in one last blog for the week and we’ll carry it on through the weekend and we’ll resume with a new topic on Monday. Let’s prove all that data wrong and ring up some good numbers here this weekend!
In the meantime I wanted to at least get some conversation going on the Georgia gymnastics team and the tremendous opportunity and challenge that it has before it tonight.
Suzanne Yoculan’s Gym Dogs are of course going for their fourth NCAA title in a row as the NCAA championships wrap up with the “Super Six” competition tonight (individual competitions will continue on Saturday). It looked like No. 4 (number nine overall) would come pretty easy earlier in the year, what with Georgia having the best team and the championships being held on its home floor in Stegeman Coliseum. But then Courtney Kupets, argulably the best gymnast to don the red and black, went out for the season with an Achilles injury. That changed things considerably.
Yeah there are the Dogs, going into the final team competition with the best score out of the round of 12, including the two teams that beat them this season (Utah and Michigan). It will be a pretty incredible accomplishment if they can pull it out tonight. Carter Strickland is covering it for us so check back for details tonight.
Of course, the big news this year is that Yoculan has decided she’s going to retire following next season and she (with Damon Evans’ approval) has tabbed Jay Clark as her successor. Do you think Gym Dogs can continue to succeed at their current level under Clark’s leadership?
Meanwhile, a lot of other interesting stuff going on over the weekend:
• Coach David Perno’s baseball team is down at Florida with a 3.5-game lead over South Carolina in the East. To win two out of three down there would really be a big step toward locking up division. But the remainder of the schedule is tough. Ole Miss is in Athens next weekend, Georgia Tech drops in the Wednesday after that, then they’re at Vanderbilt and finish up at home against Alabama. So there’s a long way to go. But this is one of the better teams I’ve seen Perno put together and, between the pitching and Gordon Beckham’s tear, I don’t see late swoon in them.
• Of course, it’s the NFL draft this weekend. I can’t a time when it appeared Georgia was going to have less of an impact on the festivities. Of course, the Bulldogs had only four drafted last year. But at least two of those went in the third round (Quentin Moses and Charles Johnson) and another in the fourth (Martrez Milner). That was after having 7 and 6, respectively, in the previous two drafts. Not sure if they’ll get four this year and would be surprised if somebody goes before the fourth or fifth. Though somebody could take a chance on Thomas Brown.
That’s all for now. Let me know what’s on your mind and we’ll keep an eye on how all this stuff breaks down over the weekend.
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