The Waiting Season
ATLANTA: Han Vance on Georgia football: Spring is seen as a time to start anew with one foot in the past and another stepping into the future, looking for solid footing. Perceptions in springtime are often proven quite false once…
Domination of 4 Traditional Rivals A Cornerstone
HAN VANCE ON GEORGIA FOOTBALL: Four…and one, Georgia ~ the SEC East back-to-back (undefeated in-division) champions out of Athens, Ga., are in control in series short trends within the rivalries, with each of their primary four rival schools: Florida, Tech,…
Swift for Heisman
ATTN: ATHENS LEGACY Party 2019 ~ Saturday day bar throwdown 4/20 (10a-1p) at ALLGOOD Lounge in Downtown Athens on G-Day, FREE, 21 and up. After, go to the (2p) G-Day game for free at Sanford Stadium or watch on TV…
Rivalry Out of Options
The Institute ran out of options. A classic American rivalry, all but dead. Georgia men’s basketball team won at the North Avenue Trade School in basketball 70-59 in front of a mostly-tepid crowd, while I was in attendance in my…
Chain Reactions of Inexperience at UGA
Han Vance on Georgia football: It started with Greyson Lambert. The experienced graduate transfer player’s tenure bridged the time between the end of the Mark Richt era, in which Richt was the winningest coach (74%) in school history at the…
All-College Solutions
This is not as hard as the obfuscating like to publicly suppose it to be. So-called champions of American college football have no distinct claim over other teams every year, which should bug them as much as it bothers these…
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How Kirby Compares to Richt
Han Vance exclusive for BIG HAIRY BLAWG: ATLANTA – At the end of the third season of Mark Richt’s career as a head football coach, he had failed to find the ultimate successes he had at FSU as an assistant,…
CANINES vs. CATHOLICS
In celebration of 20-19 and for rematch in 2019, CANINES vs. CATHOLICS T-shirts: $34.80 includes shipping and handling (trademark and copyright 2017) -On a gray 100% cotton T-shirt, with tearaway tags XL, L, M, S, Kids’ Medium, Women’s Medium…
Eason Not Comparing Favorably at UGA
A true frosh quarterback DJ Shockley came off the bench to win the game versus Clemson in Athens while I witnessed from the front row of the winning end zone of Sanford Stadium, after our great redshirt frosh starting quarterback…
“Richt Era: 15 Years in Athens” (book):
1st edition SOLD OUT ~ Master edition forthcoming with new foreword by Loran Smith. www.SilverStonePress.com
Podcast: Southern Sports Roundup
Mastered Podcast of my radio show from Atlanta: http://southernsportsroundup94487.podomatic.com/entry/2015-12-23T20_16_23-08_00 You can also view the raw TV simulcast footage of us making this show on Youtube and/or here at Big Hairy Blawg (ONE POST BELOW THIS ONE). With music by: Pavement,…
BOWL SHOW (hosted by Han Vance)
Raw TV simulcast footage of us recording my 4th-annual bowl show (sports talk radio):
GONE BOWLIN’
One way to think of it would be an early retirement-like, second-tier type final job, getting out of the SEC pressure cooker and either it works out big at Miami or it doesn’t but, dude, you are from Boca. Half…
“Tale of Two Saturdays”
In my humble opinion, the penultimate level of amateur athletics is American college football, and the end of year rivalries, including state championships, are just too savory not to be enjoyed. Tale of two Saturdays. Again. As it’s been so…
UGA Dawgs Country
My city divided in fractions with factions of fans, but the state is solidly ours. GEORGIA Football is still the most popular sporting enterprise in the largest state east of the Mississippi River. The Atlanta Braves, a Southern regional favorite…
Dawgs for 8-of-10 in Old Series
Welcome to the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. An exciting matchup every year, Georgia (6-3) holds a 55-55-8 record versus our “sister school” Auburn (5-4), both programs’ series record on exacta. The first game-between was played in Piedmont Park of Atlanta…
Big Moment
Big moment for our program as the World’s Largest Cocktail Party looks to be called GEORGIA-FLORIDA instead of “Florida-Georgia” for the next full year. I propose the winner get first name in the series and the losing fans HAVE to…
“Cocktail Party” (poem) by Han Vance
Writer (author/journalist/poet/blogger) Han Vance won the Harriette Austin Poetry Award for ATL Fire (published by Silver Stone Press in 2015) and is the aspiring Georgia Bulldogs Poet Laureate. Cocktail Party (C) 2006 HV This is what it comes down to….
Being Greyson Lambert
You had no pass protection nor running game. You graduated. You moved home. You were third string. See, we all go through major trials and tribulations in this life, and many of us come to an important crossroads on occasion…
