A Great Weekend in Dawg Sports

It's hard to say the University of Georgia athletic program could have done better in one weekend than it did this past weekend.

Over the weekend, UGA teams accomplished the following:

-Gymdawgs won the national championship (5th in a row and 10th overall)

-Equestrian team won the national championship (2nd in a row)

-Diamond Dawgs won the series against Arkansas to retain the lead in SEC baseball

-No. 1 ranked Men's Golf team won the SEC Championship (1st since 2006, 27th overall)

-No. 4 ranked Men's Tennis team defeated Tennessee to claim the SEC Eastern Division title

No. 2 ranked Women's Tennis team won the SEC Championship (8th overall regular season title)

-Marta Silva Zamora won the Women's Golf Indiviual SEC Championship (8th overall for UGA)

-Georgia Track and Field managed 20 wins and 16 NCAA regional qualifying marks


I personally was able to see the Saturday baseball game against Arkansas and the men's tennis team beat Tennessee. Later, I found out the largest crowd of the season turned out for the tennis match. It doesn't get much better than that for a Saturday afternoon.

I want to give a shout out to my friends Keith and Annaka for inviting me to their friends tailgate that was hosted by Tom Stovall and had some great chefs, Gant and Chris. The food they cooked for it was unbelieveably good, came in monstrous amount, and rivaled any tailgate at a football game.

It's great to be a Georgia Bulldawg!

No News..is Good News?

We are now one week removed from G-Day and 3 months away from summer practice. The best we can hope for over those next three months is to hear very little out of Athens. Last year, most of the news was concerning player arrests or great expectations. This year, I will welcome a little silence as we prepare for the 2009 season.

Here is a glimpse of some other stories that are taking place in the Georgia athletic world right now:

- The Georgia gymnastics team won its fifth consecutive national championship. I repeat, 5 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS in a row. Can you imagine the excitement level of the Dawg nation if the football team won 1 NC, let alone 5?

- The Diamond Dawgs took 2 of 3 from Arkansas to remain atop the SEC standings. At 2-2 for the week, I expect the team to fall out of the #1 ranking in the Coaches' Poll.

- The NFL draft is this Saturday and it looks like Stafford will indeed go #1 to the Lions. The real steal of the draft will be whoever picks up Knowshon in the 20-30 range.

- Speaking of Knowshon and Stafford, both are candidates to appear on the cover of this year's version of EA Sports NCAA Football. They begin announcing the cover athletes today on ESPN College Football Live and will do a different system's version of the game each day. I expect Stafford to grace the cover of either the XBOX360 of PS3 version.