Greetings from New Orleans! I arrived in Louisiana yesterday evening and the photographers and I spent the night in a nursery (plants, not babies). Richard Hamm, our incoming co-chief photo ed, set us up in his cousin’s home where his family owns a plant nursery that stretches over several acres. Our lodging is about 45 [...]

The Bulldogs make their way to New Orleans today, the first time they’ll play in the city since 2002. Sure they played in the 2005 Sugar Bowl, but that was in Atlanta, and things have, ummm, changed a bit in the Big Easy since the Bulldogs last visit.
“I’m interested to see what it looks like,” [...]

The Bulldogs won’t be missing any players on the sidelines for the Sugar Bowl, as the team didn’t lose any for not making the grades this semester.
“Everybody is in. It is awesome,” head coach Mark Richt told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The same can’t be said at other schools across the nation, most prominently at Florida State. [...]

It’s still a few weeks away, but a small battle of words is brewing leading up to the New Year’s Day clash between Georgia and Hawaii. Former Red & Black Sports Editor Tyler Estep inflamed some readers by saying Hawaii was undeserving of a BCS bid, causing one reader to write:
You are the result of [...]

Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison for his role in a felony dogfighting ring ithat took place in his hometown of Newport News, Va.
This means Vick, who is missing this entire season, will miss the 208 and 2009 seasons. The earliest he will play is 2010.
My take? Vick is done. His NFL [...]

So Georgia will play Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl.
I figured Georgia wouldn’t make the National Championship, and that’s fine. Georgia didn’t get snubbed out of the title game. While I think the Bulldogs are one of the top 2 teams in the country, the system is what it is, and having an SEC champion in the [...]

In a column I wrote last Monday I wrote “Pittsburgh has about as good a shot of beating the Mountaineers as I have at winning the lottery and quitting school tomorrow.”
Well, to my surprise it happened. But to Georgia’s dismay, LSU won. With that, there’s a chance Georgia will be the odd team out. Here’s my BCS projections [...]

What a wacky weekend this turned out to be.
You could have given me a million dollars to bet on Pittsburgh and I would beg you to put it in a mutual fund instead. Now the national championship race seems to be up for grabs. However this may turn into a popularity contest like last year, when No. 4 [...]