California Love: How our West Coast Scene in ’17 Impacted Georgia Football’s Future Now
HAN VANCE ON Georgia football: That breeze. California knows how to party but when I was coming up in The Rhetta – Marietta, Georgia – UGA, in Athens, was the top party school in America. Then, it was becoming Rockville…
Georgia Football: RBU at a Crossroads
Han Vance on Georgia football: Running Back University is a mantle no other college can come close to wrestling away from UGA. Founded in 1785 as the birthplace of American public higher education and having commenced Deep South college football…
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…
“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….
Cocktail Party (c) ’06
Full-length version of my award-winning football poem: This is what it comes down to. This, and Auburn, but this sets up the Auburn game. For the Auburn game to be truly huge, the Dawgs have to win this game. Every…
Looking for Greener Pastures
Vince the Prince seemed to always beat the Gators. Herschel Walker was only one of a myriad of good to great GEORGIA running backs that shredded the Swamp People under Coach Dooley’s watch. Georgia didn’t throw the ball much back…
What it’s like to compete against Champ Bailey
ATHENS, GA – In this corner: Non-trad returning fourth-year junior and future DAWGS journalist, Han Vance. Versus: One of the greatest NFL defensive backs of all-time, then-freshman Champ Bailey. With a record of 3-1, we felt our team was close to…
With Mettenberger Gone, Quarterbacks Must Step Up
Curious that Aaron Murray did not play in the first half of the G-Day Game, I had to ask myself: Is he already the season opener starter for the University of Georgia Bulldogs? That question was a presumed yes for…
Big D In the Classic City
Hailing from Ft. Worth by way of Austin, I’m a native Texan and third-generation Cowboys fan. Long ago, the Atlanta Falcons beat Dallas in a regular season match, causing my beloved Nanny to be the first to utter the term…
The Real Chris Boggs is a DAWG!
I recently came into awareness of an impostor. Of all things, this other Chris Boggs is a Tech writer, for the AJC. No, he doesn’t write about technology – he writes about the wimpy North Avenue Trade School Yellow Jack-its….
DAWGS-Zonely
I Hate Losing WAY, WAY, WAY More Than You I Hate It More Than Richt, Stafford and Bobo Combined I Hate It As Much As Larry Does – Munson FOREVER!!! And Losing To Your Biggest Rival, Neigh, Giving Them The…
Classic City Homecoming
It was Saturday, in Athens, and that meant football to me. I had a walk around town and campus and only a couple of adult beverages before heading to my seats. I just don’t party like I once did. Big…
Growing Pains (football lit)
I wrote this after the UT game last year; UGA was completely blown out at Neyland Stadium. Growing Pains Through the woodshed comes a pained voice. UT is straight up woodshed-ing us, our Dawgs, and the voice is…
SEVEN AND KIMBERLY-NI AND THEM
Now let me talk to you about Seven and Kimberly-ni and them. In case I mention them later, I want you to know who they are. The and them first. They were the folks I worked with at Aspens….
Friends
Comcast was unable to broadcast the pay-per-view game in part of the Cobb County area. This is the third time ever and twice in two years that we have been unable to order the game from them due to server…
DAWGS UP 7-0
Southern received ball in endzone Two drops A broken up shuttle pass Punt Moreno with a long run Pass to new young stud AJ Green to the one Moreno…TOUCHDOWN In other news: Comcast has been unable to provide service to…
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Georgia Baseball Hero Ryan Piesel Interviewed
Han Vance interview with Ryan Piesel, outgoing University of Georgia third baseman and current member of the Colorado Rockies organization: Vance: One thing I prefer in baseball over football is that you can see the facial expressions of the…
that first trick
When The Season Shows Itself Was This Morning I Can’t Believe It’s Sixty Degrees Out What Does This Feel Like To You I Think You Know What It Feels Like To Me Breeze In The Trees Me Browning Turkey Sausage…
