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.
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DEL.ICIO.USLiving on Tulsa time
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greetings from Tulsa once again. I’m at the $15 million Michael D. Case Tennis Center watching the defending national champion Georgia men’s team put a hurting on Pepperdine in the round of 16.
The Bulldogs smoked them for the doubles point, winning 8-1 and 8-2 at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. Then, after stumbling a little out of the gate in singles, regained their footing and are rolling now. At this minute they’ve won five first sets so it’s just a matter of time before they clinch it 4-0.
Now, on to the town of Tulsa. Thanks again for the many suggestions of where to go and what to do. I still haven’t been able to go out to dinner yet, per se, but I did get to sample a little of the nightlife last night. Make that late-night, nightlife because I didn’t get out of the tennis complex until 11:30 local time.
I met a couple of Georgia sports information guys at a place they chose down on Cherry Street, the “Gray Snail Saloon.” It was a great place if you’re in your 20s and I’m not. So after standing in front of the bar for 15 minutes with my ribs rattling to hip-hop holding up a twenty for the bartender to please get me a beer only to see him walk away to get straws to fill the dispenser then come back and serve the young lady behind me and to my right, I decided to leave. Never did get that beer.
I proceeded to a place called “Buckaneers” Tulsadog recommended as “a great dive” not too far away on Harvard Avenue. It definitely was a dive and was filled with some interesting characters. It was karaoke night, as it turns out, and a couple of ladies did their own version of Coyote Ugly on the bar. I finally got my beer but I didn’t stay long as the loud, bad singing and the smoke was getting the best of me. Yes, they smoke inside the bars here.
So, anyway, with any luck I’ll get done in time tonight to try one of your many dinner recommendations. So stay tuned. I know this is riveting stuff!
Dogs are about to clinch so I’ll check in later.
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By tulsadog
May 16, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Nice win by the Dogs today. Here’s a link through the University of Tulsa’s website where you can watch the action at the Case Tennis Center. http://tulsahurricane.cstv.com/livestats/m-tennis/TulsaTennis.html
By Chip Towers
May 16, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
OK, Dogs ended up clinching 4-1. Travis Helgeson, ranked No. 4 in the nation, was upset by No. 37-ranked Bassam Beidas at No. 1 singles… . But the story of this match was Jamie Hunt’s comeback at No. 4. He hasn’t lost in singles in 18 matches but found himself down 5-0 before rallying to win seven straight games and win the set. Never mind that his match was suspended with him leading 5-4 in the second set, his was an unbelievable comeback that seemed to inspire the whole team… . Christian Vitulli, playing the court next to Hunt, clinched the match 6-3, 6-4.
By ugaheros
May 16, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
WHO’S NEXT? Sic’em DAWGS!!!!
By Chip Towers
May 16, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
Dogs get the winner of Ole Miss-North Carolina match, which is ongoing. Rebels surprisingly lost the doubles point but are up at three singles spots. Could go either way.
By Tom
May 16, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Chip, are you sure on that UM-UNC doubles result? Website has UM winning.
By Bill Goldberg
May 16, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
So you wanna know who’s next, Pepperdine? YOU’RE NEXT!!
By Brian
May 16, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Chip: Hope you are enjoying it out there. How does the facility compare to our place in Athens?
By John
May 16, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
GO TO McNELLIE’S — DOWNTOWN. JUST ASK ANYONE WHERE IT IS. They have a Huge beer selection, and will probably have live music on the weekends.
By Chip Towers
May 16, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Tom, I’m quite positive.
By RAMBLE ON!!!
May 16, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this
Real men don’t play Tennis, only ladies.
By Bob Sacamano
May 16, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
Chip,
You should know better that to go into a college bar being a guy and being old and expect to get served when there are comely young ladies around you.
Come on Chip! Common sense!
By volleydawg
May 16, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
Ramble ON: for the past 7, yes 7?, 7 years we’ve made yall look like a bunch of ladies. 7 years.. wow
Chip: Seems like only Virigina and Ohio St. and maybe another team or 2 are the only teams that could beat the Dawgs..what do you think? Also, at the end of last year, I thought that N.Schnugg looked to be the “most talented” player going into this season…do you think he’s #1 position level at this moment?
By dawg87
May 16, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
Need to win it again this year. Travis and Luis gone and Schnugg will turn pro after this NCAA.
By desertdawg
May 17, 2008 12:54 AM | Link to this
ramble on—nice jab at the tennis team! You must have stayed up past 9 ( with mom’s permission ) to come up with that one. Keep ‘em coming big guy ( or gal ) #8 awaits in November!!!
By BiFF! Bam! Boom!
May 17, 2008 3:10 AM | Link to this
Zit mCkluskie just beat up his CPU. “I’ll make it my life’s work to destroy you, dad gummit @#$^@! I’ve been drankin’ fire water all day long!! You want some of this, keyboard? Keep typin that stuff, cuz There’s plenty of beat down to go around! I’m Zit mCkluskie, and I’ll dog your azz if I got to.”
(Dr. Phil is on line 2!)
By Chip Towers
May 17, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Kudos to John: Thanks so much for the McNellie’s recommendation. Awesome place, just the kind I was looking for. Must’ve had 300 different kinds of beer on tap and the game room upstairs, with shuffleboard and darts, etc., was a great find. Thanks again… .
Keep the suggestions coming.
By Big Jim
May 17, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this
Check out the bar at the Curve. “Get ur Done”
By Reb4UM
May 17, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this
Go Rebels! It should be a great rematch.
By Reb4UM
May 17, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
GO REBELS! It should be a great rematch.
By Adam
May 18, 2008 12:46 AM | Link to this
Chip, If you want a good bar with no smoke and great food….check out The Brook on Brookside, located on Peoria Ave south of 31st street.
By Adam
May 18, 2008 12:46 AM | Link to this
Chip, If you want a good bar with no smoke and great food….check out The Brook on Brookside, located on Peoria Ave south of 31st street.
By Adam
May 18, 2008 12:46 AM | Link to this
Chip, If you want a good bar with no smoke and great food….check out The Brook on Brookside, located on Peoria Ave south of 31st street.
By JJ the Jet Plane
May 18, 2008 12:59 AM | Link to this
Where has Zit or Zed or Reb, whatever the world his first name is McCorkle? I think he’s working 3rd shift at Waste Mgmt., only he’s not a driver..Cuz told some friends he hoses out the trucks early in the am when they return. They said he use to ride the back actually dimping the cans in, but resprained his ankle jumping off the truck. Cuz said Zen said it was an OLD football injury. Yeah, someone threw a football at him and hit him in the ankle.
I know, Zal and Cuzin won’t blog about Chips Tulsa trip because neither have been west of Macon, Ga.
By AltamahaDawg
May 18, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
JJ, how many different names on different blogs are you going to use? Takes a real big man to hide behind a computer and insult folks, eh?
BTW, I believe that CUZ has literally been all over the country taking care of his disabled child. Thanks for proving once again what a great guy you are.
By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 18, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this
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What UGA is doing right this moment in all these sports, just before the Final NACDA Directors’ Cup is handed out, is to propel UGA way up the list again this season in the all sports trophy.
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By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 18, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
I see that AltamahaDawg is once again telling everyone how great he is and not great yet someone else is, again.
Recurring theme there AltamahaDawg.
By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 18, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
And, again it is your only post to this blog too.
A Flame of someone.
And, not one AltamahaDawg word about Sports.
Your contributions to the blogs, speak for themselves.
By Chip Towers
May 18, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
Dogs just won the doubles point over Ole Miss. Most impressive was the 8-4 win at No. 1 by Jamie Hunt and Nate Schugg. The guys they were playing were ranked No. 5 nationally and they’re 17th, so UGA definitely served notice. Point was clinched at No. 2 by Luis Flores and Javy Garrapiz. Dogs No. 3 team was tied 6-6 and on serve… . Georgia now needs to win just three of the six singles matches to advance to the semifinals for the third straight season.
By AltamahaDawg
May 18, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
Gee Bulldawg, I noticed your personal attacks on me have “not one word about sports” either there champ. You posting as JJ now too?
By Roy
May 18, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
Chip, I can’t get any score updates. Can you please help?
thanks
By Chip Towers
May 18, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
OK, Roy, Georgia won first sets in five of its six singles spots. The only position it lost, oddly enough, was at Jamie Hunt’s No. 4. He hasn’t lost there in 19 straight matches, so that was a surprise… .
For live scoring and such you should be able to find what you need on the Tulsa website. Just google “Tulsa athletics” and you’ll find your way there.
By Bob
May 18, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
Dogs win! Dogs win!
By Chip Towers
May 18, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this
Georgia defeats Ole Miss 4-0. Nate Schnugg clinched at No. 2 singles 6-1 in the third set.
By William
May 18, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
AltamahaDawg and Real Man should never be written so close. It is an insult to both.
By AltamahaDawg
May 18, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this
Careful, there wasnt any sports in that post, William.
By AltamahaDawg
May 18, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this
But of cource since you aren’t a Georgia fan, you will be spared the wrath of ol #39.
By William
May 18, 2008 11:33 PM | Link to this
That’s what I thought…Geaux Tigers!
By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 19, 2008 5:31 AM | Link to this
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I have something to say about Georgia Bulldogs’ SPORTS.
And, it is not about how great AltamahaDawg says he is - which is just a Flame of someone that day in here as his only entries in the Georgia Bulldogs’ Blog.
Ohio State would never have beat UGA last year in football.
Or, any of the other SEC teams last year.
The crowds are the same for the NFL regular season games, as they are for the NFL playoffs. No different whatsoever.
Regular season games, especially if it can be shown to be beneficial to more than just Big 10 and Pac-10 Ohio State and Southern California, will become even more of a big game and big draw.
Right now, if you are from a conference that has 1 football program like Southern California is in the Pac-10 or like Ohio State is in the Big 10, then your football games against their Opponent that week is more amplified than just won/lost record against cupcakes and creampuff powder-puff “opponents.”
For example last season’s NCAA Number 73 Strength of Schedule for Southern California and Number 38 SoS for Ohio State (This includes their BCS Game Opponent.) would have to stand on the merits of those wuss opponents.
Their won/loss record would not mean as much as who in the blazes they beat who were in fact Top 25 teams.
By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 19, 2008 5:36 AM | Link to this
Then, they would want to play a Championship Game in those conferences like the Pac-10 and the Big 10. Then, another team would actually become good in those conferences. Then, the winner of that game would actually be able to put up a game against all the other conferences who do have Championship Games.
The regular season games would be even more meaningful. Bigger Games. More important games.
All that matters right now is can the Big 10 and Pac-10 top team go undefeated. If they can, then they are in the NCAA BCS National Title game, no matter who in the hell it is they actually did beat.
I hardly think that Ohio State beating 1 ranked team all season long and that 1 team Wisconsin who in turn beat no ranked team all season long, qualified Ohio State to play LSU last season who beat who Number 1, Number 3, Number 12, Number 16 and Number 23.
The facts of the matter are that all those 5 wins by LSU last season over Top 25 teams were in games that basically everyone out West and everyone up North hoped would cause LSU to lose those 5 games instead, and keep LSU out of the NCAA BCS National Championship Game in favor of some 1 team conference like Southern California with no conference championship game and no good win all season long last year.
And, it would have. But, LSU won all 5 of those games to the chagrin of Southern California with their NCAA SoS Number 73.
http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/Internet/toughest%20schedule/ia9gamescumm.pdf
It’s frustrating to be stonewalled by fans of college football programs who play nothing but cupcakes, don’t want to have to play a conference championship game, and want instead to talk about the integrity of the regular season and how that integrity of the regular season should not be watered down by having to actually beat good teams to be national champion.
By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 19, 2008 5:42 AM | Link to this
Just as it is frustrating to come in here and see what some think passes off as a discussion of Georgia Bulldogs’ Sports in the UGA blog here.
Georgia was done dirty this last season.
It’s a beauty contest right now. Go undefeated in a conference of but 1 team, have no conference championship, beat no Top 25 team, and play for the NCAA BCS National Championship.
All this will end, just as soon as we all see that the answer lies with the Plus One +1. Any watering down of the Plus One +1 to an 8-team playoff will ruin fixing this.
The fix is that Ohio State NEVER gets to play in the NCAA BCS National Championship Game against the likes of Florida the year before or LSU last year - neither of which did they have any damn business of being in. Obviously.
Level the playing field.
Give more than just the Pac-10 and Big 10 one-team conferences an opportunity to be in fact the champion of this sport because we all know that the Big 10 and Pac-10 have but 1 team, that they purposely don’t want to have to play a conference championship, that they purposely don’t want to have to beat Top 25 teams, and that all they care about is preserving their precious won/loss record - saying that they are a BCS Conference and went undefeated.
Georgia played the Number 7 NCAA SoS last season in football and this up-coming season again. Same thing.
By AltamahaDawg
May 19, 2008 7:39 AM | Link to this
Bulldawg, I think I hit a nerve with you going after that tech fan, who was trashing one of our (not your) own.
It’s always struck me as odd that you have NEVER defended or agreed with any actual Dawg fan in here, in fact as consistantly combative with them. If they say Mark Richt is great, you point out how many losses he has. If they comment on a player, you point out who they should be talking about. And God forbid anyone takes another team to task, you’d be the first to point out thier accomplishment over UGA.
But you don’t seem to have any problem and never seem to address the many haters and rivals posting in here.
Interesting.
It’s also peculiar to me that your entire body of work consist of internet research. Not one mention of actually being at a game. Never a reference to Athens, or campus. (or a real life for that matter) EVER.
Odd.
You never comment on a particular game, make any prediction, or talk about the players or program, real time. No expression of joy over about a huge win. No comments about black jerseys or celebrations over the gators. Just statistics about the Pac-10.
Hmmm
I suppose it is possible that you could be the one Dawg fan in the world that takes the side of rivals, hates all other Dawg fans, has no personal reference to the school, never seems to talk about the actual game, and who’s “fandom” is based solely from the internet. Possible I guess.
By #21
May 19, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
Wooooooooooweeeeeee! That stank!
By #21
May 19, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
Buckaneers sounds like my fav-o-rite watering hole in Tallahassee. You gotta fight your way in and fight your way out. Good Times, man, good times. I would have played for Ga, but they would not guarantee me playing time as a freshman. Boy do they look silly. Praise the Lord! I am the greastest db of all time and a super bowl winner, and the handsomest man on tv. Must be the Money! Must be the Money!!!
By #21
May 19, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
Bobby Bowdon always was a better coach than Vince Donley. Maybe when he retires, I’ll throw my hat into the FSU coaching ring. I don’t care what his contract says, they will not give the job to Jumbo. #21 is back! Maybe I should break out a classic FSU #2 Jersey.
By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 26, 2008 6:08 AM | Link to this
AltamahaDawg has not one post this entire thread either about anything going on in UGA sports, but he does offer up this type post for example, only :
AltamahaDawg QUOTE :
If they say Mark Richt is great, you point out how many losses he has. If they comment on a player, you point out who they should be talking about. And God forbid anyone takes another team to task, you’d be the first to point out thier accomplishment over UGA.
But you don’t seem to have any problem and never seem to address the many haters and rivals posting in here.
Interesting.
Odd.
You never comment on a particular game, make any prediction, or talk about the players or program, real time. No expression of joy over about a huge win. No comments about black jerseys or celebrations over the gators. Just statistics about the Pac-10.
Hmmm
I suppose it is possible that you could be the one Dawg fan in the world that takes the side of rivals, hates all other Dawg fans, has no personal reference to the school
END AltamahaDawg QUOTE.
BS AltamahaDawg BS
By ............................................BuLLdawg
May 26, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
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AltamahaDawg has not one post this entire thread either about anything going on in UGA sports, but he does offer up this type post for example, only :
AltamahaDawg QUOTE :
If they say Mark Richt is great, you point out how many losses he has. If they comment on a player, you point out who they should be talking about. And God forbid anyone takes another team to task, you’d be the first to point out thier accomplishment over UGA.
But you don’t seem to have any problem and never seem to address the many haters and rivals posting in here.
Interesting.
Odd.
You never comment on a particular game, make any prediction, or talk about the players or program, real time. No expression of joy over about a huge win. No comments about black jerseys or celebrations over the gators. Just statistics about the Pac-10.
Hmmm
I suppose it is possible that you could be the one Dawg fan in the world that takes the side of rivals, hates all other Dawg fans, has no personal reference to the school
END AltamahaDawg QUOTE.
BS AltamahaDawg BS to every word of that.
All you EVER do is criticize EVERYONE.
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