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, June 6, 2008
Hot times expected at Foley Field
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So I’m standing in the Georgia dugout at Foley Field yesterday waiting on coach David Perno to come out of the locker room when the fan a few feet to the left of me begins to make some gosh-awful sounds. It was a smaller version of one of those big mist-producing fans you see on the sidelines at football games. Then it clanked and clanged and finally it stopped all together. Team trainer Mike Dillon quickly came over to tend to it but, after only a short while, pronounced the fan dead on the scene.
Perhaps that’s a good omen for the Diamond Dogs, who come into Friday’s NCAA Super Regional against N.C. State as one of the hottest teams in the nation. With a noon start and their dugout fan on the fritz it doesn’t look like they’ll be cooling off anytime soon.
Speaking of fans, it was a good sign for Georgia when today’s game sold out in one day earlier this week. In fact, the Bulldogs received an extra 400 tickets returned by N.C. State and sold out of them by Wednesday. That’s not unusual for Georgia baseball in the postseason but there was a little concern from UGA administrators when ESPN gave them noon starts Friday and Saturday. The Dogs would have much rather started at 7 p.m. but, as ever, television dictates all in sports.
Anyway, both Carter and I will be in the press box at Foley Field today and I’ll be blogging periodically from there today. The NCAA doesn’t allow you to do play-by-play for constant score updating but I’ll try to give you some periodic sights and sounds that you won’t get from television.
So stay tuned and thanks in advance for hanging out!
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