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Florida guard signs with Georgia basketball

University of Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox on Thursday announced the signing of Vincent Williams, a guard from Homestead, Fla., to a national letter-of-intent to attend UGA and play next season for the
Bulldogs.

Williams, at 6-1 and 160 pounds, is currently a senior at South Dade High School in Homestead.

Diamond Dogs fall to Jacksonville State

The Georgia baseball team gave up 12 runs in the last two innings to Jacksonville State, losing 16-8 Wednesday night at Foley Field.

Georgia (33-12, 14-7 SEC) had revenge on its mind after the Gamecocks upset the Bulldogs on April 22 by a score of 9-7, but gave up its first ninth-inning lead of the season, falling to Jacksonville for the second time in eight days.

Softball finishes undefeated in-state

It took longer than most expected, but the No. 8 Georgia softball team finally pulled out a 3-2 win over Georgia Southern Wednesday night.

The unranked Eagles took the Bulldogs (37-9) to an extra inning in a hard-fought pitcher’s dual, but freshman Ashley Pauly’s walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning gave Georgia the victory.

Recruit commits at G-Day game

It’s a Georgia kid’s dream, a chance few high school football players ever receive – the opportunity to suit up in red and black for the home-state Bulldogs.

In the spring of 2010, Kolton Houston, an Under Armour All-American offensive guard from Buford High School, will see this opportunity after committing to Georgia at the G-Day game, spurning the likes of Clemson, South Carolina, Florida State and Auburn to follow in his dad’s footsteps, who played at Georgia for two season in the late ’80s.

D.C. band forms out of former grade school antics

Initially two separate bands, Jonathan Fire*Eater and The Recoys merged in 2000 and The Walkmen was born.

May movie previews (in order of my anticipation)

STAR TREK premieres May 8 Ever since 2002′s not-so-successful “Trek: Nemesis,” people wondered about the viability of the Star Trek franchise. Sure there are legions of fans, some with copies of “Hamlet” written in Klingon. (Don’t believe me? Google it.) But after a 10th film installment and volumes of books, what’s left to explore? What hasn’t been covered by Patrick Stewart’s “Picard” or William Shatner’s “Kirk”? Well, if you can’t sequel it in Hollywood, you reboot it.

Listen up! (in May)

New York Dolls “Cause I Sez So” May 5 Atco Hugely influential on punk rock and new wave in the ’70s, the glam-rock outfit was defunct for over 20 years prior to reforming in 2004. “Cause I Sez So” is the second full-length release since The New York Dolls’ reunion and is the first album to be produced by Todd Rundgren since the band’s acclaimed 1973 self-titled debut.

Collection of brief poems mixes famous with obscure

I’ve never been one to sit down and read poems, but I am very big on immediate gratification, Full of short poems, “The Voice That Is Great Within Us” tricks me into thinking I’ve made steady progress after only two minutes.

Time becomes unidentifiable when flying through this compilation of classic poems from the past century.

East meets West in organic, electronic split

Politics has a way of sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong. Due to the Western world’s current relationship with the Middle East, musical influences from that part of the world are often overlooked. TELEPATH with EP3 and Landsquid When: 9 p.m. Saturday Where: Georgia Theatre Cost: $10 Socially conscious trio Telepath, who combines influences from Arabic, Indian and Jamaican music, remind listeners there is more to a culture than what American news media portrays.

Classes teach awareness, self-defense

Peck, a psychology graduate student from Wisconsin, became involved in martial arts at a young age. Thanks to a women’s self-defense class, Peck discovered martial arts was her passion.

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