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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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Should Dogs, Tech have to meet again?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Welcome back from the Memorial Day weekend. I had a rare weekend off after returning from seven straight days of work in Tulsa covering the NCAA Tennis Championships and what ended up being the Georgia men’s run to their sixth national title. That’s an event I enjoy but not necessarily a week in Tulsa.
Turning our attention back to the here and now, obviously the Bulldogs’ weekend as hosts of the NCAA Athens Regional is the biggest thing going on the Georgia beat. Carter Strickland has a lot of good stories planned for the weekend and, with Georgia Tech also in the field, y’all know we’ll be providing some awesome coverage.
It’s amazing how many times the Dogs and Jackets have had to go through each other to advance in the NCAA Tournament. This weekend will be seven times if they’re both so fortunate as to get by their first-round opponents. Georgia has won four of the six games. Tech got a really tough draw from that perspective as Louisville is a hot team and a hot program that made it to the College World Series last year.
And, most would agree, the Jackets got a tough draw having to come to Athens. I tend to like the concept of a “true regional” in which teams from the same areas have to fight to represent that region. Tech coach Danny Hall said yesterday he thinks it should be like the NCAA basketball tournament because so many good teams come out of the South. That’s a good point, too. In 2006, when the two teams didn’t have to play each other, they both made it to the CWS.
So what do y’all think about it? Should the NCAA make a concerted effort to split up Tech and Georgia at tournament time since they already play each other three times every year? Or do you like the true regional format, where Tech or Georgia or Clemson or Florida State or Georgia Southern or South Carolina always have to get by the other to make it to Omaha?
I, for one, tend to like it that they have to get by each other. It makes for some high-energy baseball and we love covering that!
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