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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…
Columns
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
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…
Columns
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…
Columns
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…
Columns
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…
Columns
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…
Columns
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…
Sports
Loran Smith’s Sports Column: Mark Richt
LAS VEGAS – Not sure how many halls of fame Mark Richt will become a member of, but…
Columns
Loran Smith’s Thanksgiving Column
I’m Thankful Each of us is given the gift of 86,400 seconds each day. How often have…
Columns
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…
Columns
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…
Columns
Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Peanuts
During the harvest season in October, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where the harvesting of…
Columns
Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Vernon and Patricia
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL – Owing to a college friendship, I was the beneficiary of the most…
Columns
Loran Smith’s Feature Column: Helen Reminisces
HELEN – I have had a love affair with this community dating back to the first time I…
Sports
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…
Sports
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…
Columns
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…
Columns
Loran Smith’s Column: Masters for Thursday
AUGUSTA – With every official, competitor and patron maintaining a hopeful eye on the weather while basking in…
Columns
Loren Smith’s Column: Masters Week
AUGUSTA – This has been an eventful week at the Augusta National Golf Club with rain or the…
Columns
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…
