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, May 5, 2008
South Campus will be rocking this week
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With spring football practice in the rearview mirror and nearly four months to wait for Georgia’s season kickoff against Georgia Southern, it’s easy to think there is not much going with UGA athletics. But you’d be wrong.
The whole spring sports thing reaches a kind of crescendo about this week every year and that will definitely be the case in Athens this week as virtually every corner of campus South Campus will be awash in one sort of competition or another.
It all starts Wednesday night when Georgia Tech baseball visits the Bulldogs at Foley Field. If you haven’t had a chance to catch the Diamond Dogs this season, which appears to be developing into another special one, this would be a great chance. Tickets for the 7 p.m. tilt are $6 and half that much for kids and you don’t have to pay $8 for a hot dog like you have to in some unnamed professional parks. The Jackets drew first blood in this highly-charged series with a 9-4 win on April 9 in Atlanta, so No. 8-ranked Georgia will be feeling vengeful. They’ll play a third time May 13 at Turner Field.
On Thursday, the women’s golf team, under the direction of first-year coach Kelley Hester, will host the NCAA East Regional Tournament at UGA Golf Course. Team golf is a really enjoyable event to follow and if you haven’t checked out the Davis Love III’s redesign of the Robert Trent Jones course out on Riverbend Road, now would be a good time to see it. The tournament wraps up Saturday with the leading teams teeing off early in the day. Price of admission: Free.
There will be NCAA Tennis on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. The No. 2-ranked and second-seeded Lady Dogs play on Friday and Saturday at 4 p.m. each day and the No. 4-seeded and defending national champion men’s team plays on Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively. That is, of course, they’ll play two matches only if they win their first ones, which they should. I’ll be out there for those and will be going to Tulsa for the championship rounds the next week.
If track and field is your thing, you can catch the Georgia Invitational over at Spec Towns Track on Friday (first event, 9 a.m.). It gets kind of lost with all the Dogs’ other spring sports but they always have some world-class athletes wearing the red and black
Good thing the baseball team is in Nashville to take on Vanderbilt — in a series, by the way, that could determine the Bulldogs as regular-season champs — and softball is in the SEC Tournament in Baton Rouge or there might not be anywhere to park.
One of the good things about the semester system, in my opinion, is these student-athletes will be able to focus on these competitions without being burdened with studies. You know that has to feel good for them.
So anybody planning to come out and enjoy any of these events? Carter Strickland and I plan to have it all covered for you. Any of these sports you’d like to see more (or less) coverage of.
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