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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Ladd McConkey

After a brief respite in the hills of Northwest Georgia, the Chatsworth Cheetah—a most appropriate byname for Ladd ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Orlean Castronis

Orlean Castronis is a retired former journalist, the widow of one of the most popular players and coaches ...

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Loran Smith’s sports column: Wimbledon

The fortnight that it takes to determine the various champions of Wimbledon, one of the classiest sporting events, ...

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Privilege: An Editorial

I once read that France created an elaborate system of etiquette as a way to distinguish between classes. ...

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Loran Smith’s sports column: Willie Mays

The tributes to Willie Mays last week were bittersweet. He, of course, deserved all the lofty praise, but ...

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Loran Smith’s sports column: Wes Johnson

In all likelihood, Georgia baseball coach Wes Johnson is not a devotee of medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. He ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Charlie Condon

A few weeks ago in Phoenix, the Arizona Diamondbacks were hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers which brought about ...

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47 Minutes: A Book Review

Local author Jon D. Marsh sets a brisk pace with every event in his novella spanning 47 minutes. ...

Editorials

My Experiences in Small Town Georgia: An Editorial

I remember when I first went to Leslie. Someone was talking about raising wolf dogs. A lady was ...

Editorials

A Reluctant Defense of the Arts: An Editorial

I used to be an engineering major. That lasted two semesters. One would think the countless hours spent ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Players Championship

When Wyndham Clark’s birdie putt lipped out of the cup late last Sunday at Ponte Vedra, it was ...

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Loren Smith’s Sports Column: The Steg and the Coach

The Steg in winter is now the place to be unless you have a fireplace, firewood, and a ...

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Loren Smith’s Sports Column: Super Dawg

There will be a Georgia player in the forthcoming Super Bowl for the 23rd consecutive season on February ...

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Loran Smith’s feature column: Homer Harding

It has been several seasons since I have pheasant hunted in South Dakota, but I fully expect to ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Norman King

Years ago, Reader’s Digest, published a periodic feature under the heading of, “The Most Unforgettable Character I ever ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Mark Richt

LAS VEGAS – Not sure how many halls of fame Mark Richt will become a member of, but ...

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Loran Smith’s Thanksgiving Column

I’m Thankful   Each of us is given the gift of 86,400 seconds each day. How often have ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Autumn reflections

As the fields across the landscape emerge into a state of fallowness and the thermometer trends downward, we ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Tennessee

Although Georgia and Tennessee competed in football in the early 1900’s, the two teams did not play each ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Peanuts

During the harvest season in October, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where the harvesting of ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Vernon and Patricia

  PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL – Owing to a college friendship, I was the beneficiary of the most ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Helen Reminisces

HELEN – I have had a love affair with this community dating back to the first time I ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Hoylake

With the Open championship (you see I am yielding to the Brits who prefer—sometimes insist—that their national golfing ...

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Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Wimbledon

With the Wimbledon finals coming up this weekend, I will be watching and not just the tennis—but also ...

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Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Europe In Summer

It is difficult to book a seat on a plane or find an empty hotel room in the ...

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Loran Smith’s Column: Masters for Thursday

AUGUSTA – With every official, competitor and patron maintaining a hopeful eye on the weather while basking in ...

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Loren Smith’s Column: Masters Week

AUGUSTA – This has been an eventful week at the Augusta National Golf Club with rain or the ...

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Loren Smith’s column on former UGA football great Frank Sinkwich and the upcoming national title game against TCU

With the passing of time, signature moments of the past are often diminished and downgraded as inferior to ...

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