ST. SIMONS ISLAND — Outgoing University of Georgia president Michael Adams is presiding over his last Athletic Association Board of Directors meeting this week. - Full Story
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May. 23, 2013
ST. SIMONS ISLAND–There weren’t any big fireworks in the final Georgia Athletic Association board meeting for outgoing UGA president Michael Adams. The board approved a fiscal year 2014 budget of $93.2 million and $2.18 million for facility improvements, including to Sanford Stadium. “This has really been a labor of love to see the growth in [...] - Full Story
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May. 22, 2013
The Georgia Athletic Association’s board of directors is holding a three-day meeting this week in St. Simons. The end-of-school-year annual gathering is where budgets and facility projects get approved. Don’t look for any money being allocated for a full-scale indoor facility this week or any time soon for that matter. “”It would be nice to [...] - Full Story
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Tight end Ty Flournoy-Smith is set to transfer from Georgia, a team spokesman confirmed Wednesday night. The rising sophomore from Moultrie played eight games last season without a catch. Coach Mark Richt said Wednesday night before an appearance at UGA Days in Statesboro that Flournoy-Smith will likely go to a junior college and has talked [...] - Full Story
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As expected, Georgia-Florida is among games that will be shown on CBS’ Southeastern Conference football schedule this year. The Nov. 2 game in Jacksonville will be shown nationally at 3:30 p.m. Here is the CBS release of its schedule so far: CBS Sports kicks off its 13th consecutive season of national coverage of Southeastern Conference Football on Saturday, [...] - Full Story
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May. 20, 2013
Greg McGarity’s decision to make a change atop the Georgia baseball program is just the latest example that the Bulldogs athletic director isn’t gun-shy about cutting someone loose if results aren’t there. David Perno’s firing marks the fourth head coach to go since McGarity was named as athletic director in August of 2010. UGA president [...] - Full Story
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May. 19, 2013
In his 16 years as president of the University of Georgia, Michael Adams’ influence on athletics at the school has been felt, as he put it, by keeping “a hand on the rudder.” - Full Story
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May. 17, 2013
Kolton Houston took his story nationally last weekend. That spurred on a grass-roots online petition of support for the Georgia offensive lineman from Buford, who remains ineligible for testing positive for a banned substance he said he was injected with in high school to aid in his recovery from shoulder surgery. Georgia and Houston, who [...] - Full Story
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May. 16, 2013
Taking a step off the recruiting trail during the spring evaluation period, Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham offered up his evaluation on an assortment of topics Wednesday night at the UGA Day stop in Atlanta’s Buckhead. Grantham talked again about how the Bulldogs will be deeper, especially up front. “Last year we had 28 guys [...] - Full Story
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May. 15, 2013
ATLANTA — Todd Grantham’s Georgia defense kept Florida out of the end zone last October in Jacksonville as the Bulldogs won their second straight against the rival Gators. - Full Story
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Marcus Thornton is gearing up to be back on the court next season for the Georgia basketball team after receiving a medical redshirt following December knee surgery. The forward is still rehabbing “moreso than anything,” he said last week,” and is on the floor “a little bit. They can’t keep me off too much. I’m [...] - Full Story
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May. 14, 2013
Christian Robinson found his first coaching job after college back at Georgia. - Full Story
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Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity expects the 2014 football schedule to be released later this month at the Southeastern Conference spring meeting in Destin, Fla. The remaining SEC West opponent for Georgia is the big reveal. McGarity said he saw “models” of the ’14 schedule in a meeting of conference athletic directors last week in [...] - Full Story
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Thirteen of Georgia’s 20 sports teams improved or maintained their showing in the most recent NCAA Academic Progress Rate report. Men’s basketball made the biggest gain, compiling a four-year average of 990 out of 1,000 in the measure of eligibility, retention and graduation of scholarship athletes. The NCAA is likely to release scores in early [...] - Full Story
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May. 13, 2013
Chris Burnette was sidelined all spring following surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder. So the Georgia senior offensive guard didn’t directly feel all the shuffling of positions on the line and players moving between the first and second units. That left plenty of questions for the offensive line heading into summer [...] - Full Story
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May. 11, 2013
Georgia lived up to its No. 2 national ranking on its way to the NCAA men’s tennis tournament round of 16. - Full Story
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May. 10, 2013
Mark Fox officially has a vacancy on his Georgia men’s basketball coaching staff. Assistant coach Kwanza Johnson has resigned to take a similar position at TCU, Georgia confirmed Friday morning. The move had been widely expected for nearly three weeks, so Fox has had plenty of time to mull how he would fill his first [...] - Full Story
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May. 9, 2013
The Kolton Houston case again is in the forefront this week with ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” featuring his story on Sunday at 9 a.m. I checked with the Georgia offensive lineman this week on if there have been any recent developments. His response: “Still same situation.” Athletic director Greg McGarity and coach Mark Richt on [...] - Full Story
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May. 8, 2013
ATLANTA — School’s out at Georgia for the semester. - Full Story
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Friday morning update: Johnson to TCU now official. ATLANTA–Kwanza Johnson remains on Mark Fox’s Georgia basketball staff. How long remains to be seen. The assistant coach still could be headed to TCU. Two and a half weeks after it appeared imminent that Johnson was leaving to work under Trent Johnson at TCU, it hasn’t happened [...] - Full Story
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May. 7, 2013
As you might have expected, Georgia was the king of spring when it came to early enrollees. The Bulldogs led the nation this year with 10 football players who left high school during their senior year to enroll in time for the spring semester. The next closest to Georgia’s number were Florida, Michigan, Ohio State [...] - Full Story
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May. 4, 2013
David Jacobs can live life like most other soon-to-be 34-year-olds. “I can get around … able to play with my kids and get some work done,” Jacobs said. “I can do everything I need to do besides play football again.” Jacobs’ playing days on the football field ended in 2001 after the defensive tackle suffered [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 30, 2013
Georgia and Georgia Tech are set to play in men’s basketball on the earliest date in the season of any time in series history. The Yellow Jackets will visit Stegeman Coliseum on Nov. 15, according to a contract obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald under an open records request. The rivals have never played that early [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 29, 2013
Four months away from Georgia’s first trip to Clemson’s Death Valley in a decade, some former Bulldogs players sized up this year’s highly anticipated matchup. - Full Story
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Some notes, quotes and thoughts on Georgia players after the NFL draft wrapped up over weekend: –Seven of the eight Bulldogs drafted were defensive players. Think NFL teams like taking players from a defense coached by Todd Grantham, who spent 11 years coaching in the league? Here’s what Bengals defensive backs coach Mark Carrier told [...] - Full Story
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