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-Georgia football columnist/breaking news writer, Saturday Down South
-Match editor/contributor, MLSSoccer.com
-Editor/writer, Dirty South Soccer (SB Nation)
Nearly 2 decades covering sports for both print and online, including NCAA basketball, baseball and football; MLS and U.S. men's national team soccer; and more.
College Football
Saturday's game against Arkansas, by all accounts, was supposed to be a cakewalk for No. 4 Georgia. The Razorbacks had lost 19 consecutive SEC games since 2017. Granted, they play in the SEC West, but you'd think they'd be good for a win or 2. The Bulldogs? Well, they're the Bulldogs.
Georgia's defensive line was very good last year. A sentence like that might be an understatement, if not a completely obvious declaration. But when you lose 3 key members of a position group as important as this one, there's bound to be a little concern as to how a new set of players will stack up.
Sydney Hunte | 8 months ago There was no way Kirby Smart was going to lose this recruiting battle, was he? Sure, 5-star QB Brock Vandagriff committed to Oklahoma in June over a host of other programs, including Georgia.
Sydney Hunte | 9 months ago The Jake Fromm era is over at the University of Georgia. There are 2 schools of thought when considering whether it was the right call for Fromm to declare for the NFL Draft.
Sydney Hunte | 10 months ago With Saturday's SEC championship game headed into halftime, the scoreboard read LSU 17, Georgia 3. If you'd have told Kirby Smart before the game that would be the case, he'd have signed up for it in a heartbeat. Joe Burrow and LSU, though, were just too good.
Sydney Hunte | 10 months ago The settings of Georgia Tech and Georgia couldn't be any more different: urban campus vs. small college town, engineering and technical school vs. state flagship. And the difference is evident on the gridiron, too. Around the turn of the millennium, Clean, Old Fashioned Hate looked as if it'd become somewhat competitive.
Soccer
Last Saturday, Chicago Fire FC were licking their wounds after finding themselves on the wrong end of a 4-1 scoreline against Orlando City SC at Exploria Stadium, a match marked by Robert Beric and Alvaro Medran arguing over who would take a penalty. Eight days later, the story is a bit different.
What a difference a few days makes. On Wednesday, a dejected New York City FC team walked off the Red Bull Arena pitch after a 1-0 defeat to Toronto FC, a match that saw them outshoot the Reds 16-9 - with 8 shots on target - only to fall on a 90th-minute penalty conversion by Alejandro Pozuelo.
Things look to be falling into place quite nicely of late for Colorado Rapids midfielder Cole Bassett. The 19-year-old Homegrown Player continued his strong run of form on Wednesday evening as the Rapids routed the struggling San Jose Earthquakes, 5-0, at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. After Kellyn
Following the postponement of Atlanta United's match against Inter Miami CF in the wake of the Jacob Blake incident, things are pointing to Atlanta's contest on Saturday against Orlando City SC being played as scheduled.
Following Atlanta United's arrival in South Florida to play Inter Miami CF in Fort Lauderdale about 4-5 hours prior to kickoff, midfielder Jeff Larentowicz admitted he hadn't been watching the news while in his room at the team hotel.
It doesn't feel that long ago that Atlanta United were the nascent club in MLS, one that immediately made its mark on the soccer scene thanks in part to its uptempo play, passionate fanbase and one of the most lethal striker-midfielder duos in the league. That was three years ago.