UGA Athletics
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In-Depth
How Digitization Is Tearing Up Traditional Tickets
There are certain moments all entertainment fans want to remember forever. To evoke this sense of nostalgia, ticket stubs are often saved as treasured mementos. Preserving these keepsakes matters for fans like University of Georgia professor Keith Herndon, who hasn’t missed a home football game since 1979. “This is…
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COVID-19 Coverage
Local Organizations Use Social Marketing Campaign to Inform About COVID-19
Three local organizations teamed up to provide a social marketing campaign for COVID-19 in Northeast Georgia to increase safety awareness about the virus and the number of residents who are vaccinated. The graphics from the campaign have been widely spread, ranging from different social media platforms to billboards. The organizations…
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Sports
Kelsey Kurnett: From Team Manager to Scholarship-Receiving Athlete
This past December, junior Kelsey Kurnett received a scholarship offer from the women’s golf team. But, what’s unique is that she was the team manager her freshman and sophomore years before walking on. Everything’s that’s happened to me is so surreal,” Kurnett said. A December to Remember It all began…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Athletics Hires Athens Native to Lead Football Sports Nutrition
Collier Perno, a former coordinator of sports nutrition at the University of Florida, is back home with the Dawgs as the new director of performance nutrition for Georgia Football. #ComeHomeCollier Unlike other sports nutritionists, she was heavily sought after on social media by head coach Kirby Smart and UGA…
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Sports
Georgia Bulldogs vs. MTSU Moved to Noon Due to Hurricane
BREAKING NEWS: Kickoff for the Georgia Bulldogs vs Middle Tennessee State football game has been moved from 7:15 p.m. to noon, according to a press release from UGA Athletics. The decision is due to Hurricane Florence. UGAAthletics tweeted “After extensive evaluation involving the uncertainty of weather conditions on the east…
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Uncategorized
University of Georgia Participates in Pro-Day
Today, 21 University of Georgia recently graduated bulldogs participated in Pro-day. Pro-day is a day where National Football League coaches visit the school to take a look at prospects for the NFL draft. In this photo, Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots, watches Davin Bellamy and Roquan…
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UGA Sports
Group Offers Harambe Game Day Buttons
Normally, fans will see buttons on sorority girls shirts and dresses on game day saying their sorority loves the dogs… but this weekend, fans will see buttons that look just a little bit different. These buttons…
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UGA Sports
Social Media Reacts to Mark Richt Stepping Down
By Savannah Brock On Sunday Nov. 29 Dawg Nation was rocked from its core. It was announced that Georgia head coach Mark Richt had stepped down after 15 years. Fans, alumni, players past and present took to social media to express their feelings on Richt’s departure. Grady Newsource has social…
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UGA
Athletic Board Looking to Make a Better Gameday Experience
Athens, GA- There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of a UGA football game, but for some reason, this isn’t enough anymore. Last year, an average of 6,000 seats went unused. Student representative to the athletic board Ryan Scates explains, “At first everyone was like, well it’s because we aren’t winning.…
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UGA
Coach Fox Hosts Charity Challenge
Help Georgia Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Fox win the Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge! Coach Fox, along with 48 other basketball coaches around the country are competing for a $100,000 prize to the charity they are supporting. Coach Fox has selected Coaches vs. Cancer as his cause. To help Coach Fox…