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PODCAST: Dog Days April 3

Editor’s Note: In this installment of the Dog Days Podcast, Sports Editor Ryan Black talks with Dawgs247.com (and former Red & Black) sports writer Gentry Estes to discuss various topics, including Estes’ time at the paper, the differences in covering Alabama’s football program versus Georgia’s, as well as touching on the the Bulldogs’  off the [...]

Bulldogs have good prospect to do better than in past

Folks are already forecasting 2002-03 as a blockbuster year for Georgia athletics, and this sports reporter won’t be around to see it. Four years of Bulldog sports, and it will start getting good after I graduate. Steve Spurrier’s departure from Florida opened the door for Mark Richt, who now becomes the young, offensive innovator in [...]

Gary rules Atlanta in NCAA Final Four

ATLANTA — We were warned. Billboards proclaiming Georgia’s capital as “Garyland” appeared days before the city hosted the Final Four. Who could doubt this would be Maryland coach Gary Williams’ year? Sure enough, Monday night in the Georgia Dome, Garyland’s king received his longed-for crown. “He wanted it more than anybody,” said Maryland guard Steve [...]

Wooden speaks of basketball ethics, life lessons

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden needed just seconds to connect with a packed house at the Classic Center Friday night. After Georgia coach Jim Harrick introduced the event’s feature speaker, Wooden shrugged and humbly said, “I appreciate the nice things coach Harrick said about me, but you’re supposed to say nice things when you introduce [...]

Bulldogs sponsor Wooden lecture

Tonight offers an experience Georgia basketball coach Jim Harrick said will be “something you can cherish your whole life.” Legendary coach John Wooden will speak at the Classic Center at 8 p.m. The 91-year-old Wooden won 10 national championships at UCLA in the 1960s and 1970s. He limits public appearances, but has attended every Final [...]

Harrick discusses past, future

Jim Harrick hasn’t spent this week like he had hoped. Instead of preparing his Bulldogs for the Final Four in Atlanta, Harrick threw the first pitch at Tuesday’s Georgia baseball game and prepared for Friday night’s Classic Center event featuring coaching legend John Wooden. But that doesn’t mean Harrick’s third season in Athens wasn’t a [...]

Bulldogs out in second round

The SEC will have to wait another season to solidify its claim as the best men’s basketball conference in the country. As the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight wrapped up Sunday, no conference schools remained on the dance floor. Kentucky was the only SEC school to reach the tournament’s second weekend. The Wildcats lost to No. [...]

Dogs want to shake off losses

Lately March has just made Georgia basketball mad. The Bulldogs have lost their last six postseason games and haven’t won in the NCAA tournament since 1996. They’ll have a chance to change that at 10:10 tonight in Chicago. Third-seeded Georgia (21-9) will take on No. 14 seed Murray State (19-12) at the United Center. The [...]

Dogs meet former coach, Murray State in first round of NCAAs

Know much about Murray State hoops? Can you spot Paducah, Ky., on a map? Well, the Racers know more about Georgia basketball than you may think. Coach Tevester Anderson spent nine years in Athens as an assistant for Hugh Durham. Two Murray State players are from the Peach State. Junior forward Antonie Welchel of Gainesville [...]

Dawgs lose to LSU, eliminated from tournament

ATLANTA — LSU upset Georgia to kick off a wild quarterfinal day at the SEC men’s basketball tournament Friday. Eastern powers Florida and Kentucky joined the Bulldogs among the eliminated. No. 6 seed South Carolina was the only Eastern Division team to reach the semifinals. The West’s top two teams battled Sunday as Mississippi State [...]

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