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RT @GTAthletics: .@WesDurham leaving position at #GaTech for opportunity in television http://t.co/a5tFjfQV9f

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Jun. 18, 2013

We’re four weeks away from what’s the unofficial start of the college football season in these parts. Yep, SEC Media Days. Already. I had to look twice when I saw that the talkfest of Southeastern Conference football coaches and players in suburban Birmingham, Ala., begins the same day as Major League Baseball’s All-Star game. Either [...] - Full Story

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Georgia junior Maho Kowase is the female recipient of the 2013 Southeastern Conference Sportsmanship Award. She will now be the league’s nomination to the NCAA for its national sportsmanship award, to be announced in July. This is the latest SEC honor for Kowase, a native of Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, after being selected by a vote [...] - Full Story

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Former Georgia Lady Bulldog Teresa Edwards will be enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame this Wednesday in ceremonies in Mies, Switzerland. “What can I say? It took me all around the world,” Edwards said. “Now the FIBA Hall of Fame is calling me home to stay forever. Who in their right mind wouldn’t be [...] - Full Story

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Georgia’s 2012-13 athletics year included celebrating an NCAA women’s swimming and diving championship, finishing five yards away from reaching the BCS national title football game and reaching another men’s tennis national semifinal. Those highlights contributed to Georgia being poised for a top-10 finish in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings for the first time since [...] - Full Story

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Jun. 14, 2013

Georgia’s recruiting class could be reaching its midway point thanks to a flurry of commitments, including a pledge from the top quarterback in South Carolina. Jacob Park (6-foot-3, 200 pounds), a four-star quarterback from Stratford High School in Goose Creek, picked the Bulldogs over Alabama, according to his high school coach. He is ranked by [...] - Full Story

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Scott Stricklin’s top assistant at Kent State will stay at Kent State. - Full Story

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Georgia’s secondary won’t have the services this season of a player who showed promise this spring. Freshman cornerback Reggie Wilkerson, who was expected to be in the playing rotation, is out for the season after undergoing surgery on his right knee Friday, Georgia confirmed. The injury happened in a voluntary passing drill with teammates this [...] - Full Story

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Jun. 13, 2013

Drivers heading into downtown Athens from the east side this summer and fall may notice the very public display of appreciation for Georgia’s fifth-year senior quarterback. - Full Story

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Georgia freshman cornerback Reggie Wilkerson sustained what appears to be a significant knee injury this week. While there was no official word from Georgia as of Thursday night, receiver Michael Bennett tweeted this: “Y’all pray for @ReggieWilkerson as he goes into ACL surgery tomorrow. You gonna come back stronger than ever my man!” Bennett is [...] - Full Story

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Former Georgia gymnastics standout Kat Ding has been named one of the Southeastern Conference’s two nominees for the 2013 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Ding was nominated along with former Alabama gymnast Ashley Priess. - Full Story

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From Dean Legge of DawgPost.com: Georgia’s football recruiting class of 2014 seems to be taking off. Malkom Parrish, a two-way star for Brooks County, committed to the Bulldogs on Thursday. He was also considering playing quarterback for Georgia Tech, but decided to pursue playing cornerback instead after a long talk with his high school coach [...] - Full Story

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Jun. 12, 2013

Whenever a Georgia football player makes the news for being arrested, fans speak up on Twitter. They usually express displeasure with any of the following: the player, the police or the media for reporting it. So it was when freshman defensive lineman John Atkins was arrested last Friday by UGA police for not having a [...] - Full Story

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Jun. 11, 2013

Georgia is stocking up on marquee tailbacks for its 2014 recruiting class. - Full Story

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Georgia is stocking up on marquee tailbacks for its 2014 recruiting class. Nick Chubb became the second top-10 rated player at the position to give a verbal commitment to the Bulldogs when he announced his decision on Tuesday night. Chubb, from Cedartown High School, is the top-rated running back in Georgia, the No. 6 overall [...] - Full Story

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Georgia baseball coach Scott Stricklin has brought along one of his Kent State assistants. - Full Story

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Georgia scored well conference-wide in the latest NCAA Academic Progress Rates released Tuesday. The men’s basketball team’s 990 is second among current Southeastern Conference schools behind only Alabama (995). The football program tied for fourth among current SEC schools with Florida with a score of 968. Missouri, Alabama and Vanderbilt were 1-2-3. Baseball was one [...] - Full Story

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Joe Tereshinski Sr., the patriarch of a family that proudly wore the Georgia football uniform for three generations and still remains synonymous with the program, died Sunday morning. He was 89. Tereshinski played tight end and defensive end for coach Wally Butts, winning a national title in 1942 and SEC titles in both 1942 and [...] - Full Story

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Jun. 10, 2013

Athletic director Greg McGarity doesn’t expect UGA to lessen its stringent punishment for positive drug tests in place any time soon. Even though Southeastern Conference presidents and chancellors tabled Georgia’s push to standardize drug penalties for positive tests league-wide at spring meetings two weeks ago in Destin, Fla., Georgia likely won’t budge. “You never want [...] - Full Story

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Jun. 8, 2013

Georgia got a pair of commitments from prospects at the Mark Richt Camp on Saturday. - Full Story

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Jun. 7, 2013

Georgia nose guard John Atkins won’t face a loss of playing time after he was arrested Friday by university police during a traffic stop because he was driving only with a learner’s permit. The freshman who spent last season at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia before enrolling at Georgia in January was pulled over for [...] - Full Story

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Harris English is becoming more comfortable on the PGA Tour every week, and feels right at home on TPC Southwind’s Bermuda grass greens. - Full Story

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EUGENE, Ore. — Georgia freshman Shaunae Miller finished runner-up with another school record in the 400-meter finals on Friday at the NCAA championships. - Full Story

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Georgia’s Jonas Hayes more than tripled his annual salary with his promotion to assistant men’s basketball coach. - Full Story

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Most of Georgia’s 33 signees from its 2013 football recruiting class are now on campus, where summer school began this week. There were 13 that arrived in the mid-year, leaving 20 more to join the class. Only four have yet to report: safety Kennar Johnson from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, offensive lineman DeVondre Seymour [...] - Full Story

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Georgia is favored in every football game on its schedule. Just like it was last year at this time. The Golden Nugget released 250 college football point spreads today via the blog Kegs ‘N Eggs. Here’s the breakdown of the Georgia games: at Clemson -3.5 vs. South Carolina -4 vs. North Texas (no line provided [...] - Full Story

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