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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
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
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. 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
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
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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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. 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
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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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
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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Apr. 25, 2013
They held a farewell reception on campus earlier this week for outgoing University of Georgia president Michael Adams, who still has a little more than two months to go before he steps down. Among his list of things to do in the weeks ahead, he said, won’t be getting athletic director Greg McGarity another raise [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 23, 2013
Georgia picked up a commitment Tuesday from a tight end from North Carolina for its 2014 recruiting class. Jeb Blazevich, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound product of Charlotte Christian School, picked Georgia over Clemson, Alabama, Ole Miss, Notre Dame and Ohio State. He’s rated as the No. 10 tight end in the nation by Scout.com. He’s rated [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 19, 2013
In the middle of last football season–days before Georgia’s annual tilt with Florida in Jacksonville–coach Mark Richt signalled that he would become more involved in 2013 with the kickers and punters. Shoring up the special teams looked like a big area of need. Among the issues were punt return, net punting and extra points. Richt [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 17, 2013
Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive told AL.com in February that most league schools favor remaining at eight conference games. Of course, with the new SEC Network reportedly coming in 2014, more SEC games would mean more quality programming. Georgia coach Mark Richt was asked this week about the possibility of the SEC going to nine [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 16, 2013
Georgia football coach Mark Richt gave a rundown on his team following spring practices to the Touchdown Club of Athens on Monday night. His appearance at the group’s spring meeting came just four days after the Bulldogs’ closed the book on their spring work, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have some items worth sharing: [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 15, 2013
Kenatvious Caldwell-Pope “really wrestled” with the decision to leave Georgia and declare for the NBA draft, coach Mark Fox said today. He didn’t make the jump based on a whim. Fox said “in the ballpark” of 25 NBA teams were consulted to gauge Caldwell-Pope’s NBA draft stock. In addition, Caldwell-Pope got an official NBA evaluation [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 9, 2013
Georgia offensive line coach Will Friend had returning starters John Theus and Kenarious Gates working on the second team at right and left tackle, respectively, in practice Tuesday. Consider it a message sent from Saturday’s G-Day game when the starting offensive line’s play left something to be desired. “I didn’t think the Red team played [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 6, 2013
Georgia coach Mark Richt called Saturday’s G-Day “just a good game,” for his team, but offensive coordinator Mike Bobo was less than thrilled. Bobo’s Red Team (which included the starting offense) lost to defensive coordinator Todd Grantham’s Black Team (which included the starting defense) 23-17. Receiver Jonathon Rumph was the offensive highlight with four catches [...] - Full Story
Greetings from Sanford Stadium for a relatively early G-Day spring game. It comes before Masters week and is the earliest in the SEC. Florida goes today also, but due to offensive line injuries it’s not holding a spring game, but going through drills and some scrimmage work. It’s a beautiful day with temperatures already near [...] - Full Story
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Apr. 4, 2013
G-Day is upon us. Soon at least. Saturday’s third and final scrimmage will feature Georgia vs. Georgia in the annual spring game. The offensive line will have some new looks like John Theus at left tackle and Kenarious Gates at right guard. Theus would like to play left tackle come the 2013 season. He just [...] - Full Story
Georgia’ 1983 Final Four will be a part of the events surrounding the big weekend upcoming in Atlanta. Coach Hugh Durham and most the 1983 Bulldogs team are expected to be a part of a basketball game pitting the Wounded Warrior Amputees vs. Atlanta’s All Stars. The game is Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. [...] - Full Story