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, February 16, 2009
Wild weekend for Georgia sports
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It was a wild weekend and a lot has gone down over the last week. So let’s take just a minute this morning to kind of catch up on everything before forging forward with the rest of this week.
No doubt the biggest news of the weekend was the stunning 88-86 upset of Florida by the Georgia basketball team. The Gators had come in leading the SEC East and, of course, the Bulldogs hadn’t won an SEC game and had lost 11 in a row. To me it was very reminiscent of the amazing awakening we saw Georgia experience in Atlanta to win the SEC Tournament last March… . Meanwhile, here comes Auburn into Stegeman Coliseum on Wednesday. Could the Dogs make it two in a row?
Of course there is always a flip side to any athletic contest and the devastating loss rocked the Gators pretty good. They’re trying to play their way onto the NCAA bubble after missing out last season. Anyway, here’s the write-up in the Gainesville Sun
Boy Blunder has done it yet again. Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin, as he is otherwise known, committed his third NCAA violation in about as many weeks when he dropped the name of Bryce Brown — the No. 1-rated prospect in football according to Rivals who remains unsigned and was scheduled to visit UT this weekend — during a radio interview. At this point it’s clear Kiffin either doesn’t know the rules or simply doesn’t believe they apply to him and neither is an acceptable reason. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported the slip up and the Nashville Banner took a detailed look into why Kiffin keeps screwing up… .
A real interesting story is developing with the Georgia men’s track team. Freshman sprinter Torrin Lawrence is lighting it up and this past weekend logged the fastest 400-meter time on the planet this year. Lawrence also ran an awesome anchor leg for a come-from-behind win over No. 1 Florida in the 4x400 relay and has singlehandely lifted the Bulldogs into another whole stratosphere of competition this year. You’ll be seeing a profile on this kid pretty a soon… .
By the way, our old buddy pitcher Joshua Fields finally signed with the Seattle Mariners, reportedly for $1.75 million. The UGA star’s agent, the notorious Scott Boras, had asked for $2 million and the M’s offered $1.5 million. Don’t know if that was worth missing a whole year of pitching but I guess we’ll find out this spring. Fields was invited to the major league camp. Here’s what they’re saying about him out West. By the way, he cut his hair short… .
And, finally, former Georgia football player Tony Milton reportedly is trying to become a pro golfer. I kid you not.
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