Loran Smith

Athens

Loran Smith is an active newspaper columnist, co-host of the popular Bulldog’s Tailgate Show, and he has authored more than 15 books.

Articles

Loran Smith: 50 years removed from Jack Nicklaus' fifth green jacket, memorable Sunday

2 weeks ago | augustachronicle.com | Loran Smith

Loran SmithSpecial to the Augusta ChronicleMuch of the pleasure of the Masters each year is reminiscing—looking back to great moments in the storied history of the most unique sporting event there is. It is the only major championship that is played at the same club every year. It was at Augusta that tournament officials started such traditions as bringing the former champions back.
SMITH: No Sporting Event is Equal to the Masters

2 weeks ago | gwinnettdailypost.com | Loran Smith

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SMITH: No Sporting Event is Equal to the Masters

2 weeks ago | jacksonprogress-argus.com | Loran Smith

With the Masters coming up, there are so many memories and reflections that are a reminder of what this great state has to offer to the world. Such as Stone Mountain, the Okefenokee Swamp, Coca-Cola, Vidalia onions, Georgia peaches, fruitcake, Ty Cobb, Georgia football under Kirby Smart, “Gone With the Wind,” unparalleled quail hunting and the Masters golf tournament.
SMITH: No Sporting Event is Equal to the Masters

2 weeks ago | news-daily.com | Loran Smith

With the Masters coming up, there are so many memories and reflections that are a reminder of what this great state has to offer to the world. Such as Stone Mountain, the Okefenokee Swamp, Coca-Cola, Vidalia onions, Georgia peaches, fruitcake, Ty Cobb, Georgia football under Kirby Smart, “Gone With the Wind,” unparalleled quail hunting and the Masters golf tournament. kAm%96C6 :D >@C6[ 3FE E96 AC6G:@FD=J ?@E65 9:89=:89ED 3C:?8 >F49 ?2E:@?2= 2?5 :?E6C?2E:@?2= 2EE6?E:@? 2?5 C64@8?:E:@?
Loran Smith: Masters Memories

2 weeks ago | bulldawgillustrated.com | Loran Smith

With the Masters coming up next week, there are so many memories and reflections that are reminders of what this great state has to offer to the world. Such as Stone Mountain, the Okefenokee Swamp, Coca-Cola, Vidalia onions, Georgia peaches, fruitcake, Ty Cobb, Georgia football under Kirby Smart, “Gone With the Wind,” unparalleled quail hunting, and the Masters golf tournament.
CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Loran Smith: Okefenokee - LaGrange Daily News

2 weeks ago | lagrangenews.com | Loran Smith

Published 9:40 am Friday, April 4, 2025 The 402,000-acre Okefenokee Swamp—land of the trembling earth—is a remarkable treasure but its pristine heritage is being threatened by corporate greed. Unfortunately, corporate greed has an impressive track record.It often is undefeated.Careless corporations, bent on reaping profits no matter the cost to the environment, have polluted our rivers and streams, the air we breathe, and the soil we cultivate.
Loran Smith: Let’s help nature trump greed

3 weeks ago | bulldawgillustrated.com | Loran Smith

FOLKSTON—The 402,000-acre Okefenokee Swamp—land of the trembling earth—is a remarkable treasure but its pristine heritage is being threatened by corporate greed. Unfortunately, corporate greed has an impressive track record. It often is undefeated. Careless corporations, bent on reaping profits no matter the cost to the environment, have polluted our rivers and streams, the air we breathe, and the soil we cultivate. It is important that we establish a disclaimer here.
SMITH: The Highwaymen

3 weeks ago | mainstreetnews.com | Loran Smith

BY LORAN SMITHI’ll always be thankful for public television and the people and places that its cameras and producers explore and showcase to make our day. Although I am not an organized devotee—most often when I am surfing about, something catches my eye and I am glorious rewarded with a documentary or a rerun that graphically stimulates my emotions. On a recent weekend I connected with a show about “The Highwaymen,” which elevated my spirits to such a level, I had trouble going to sleep.
Butch Mulherin

3 weeks ago | mainstreetnews.com | Loran Smith

Butch Mulherin, the first orthopedic MD to hang out his shingle in Athens, was a Georgia native, a Bulldog football letterman, a man of good humor with a deep and abiding passion for following a birddog through the brush and bramble of family acreage near Damascus in deep Southwest Georgia. Seeing patients flourish physically following surgery and knocking down a pair of Bob Whites on a covey rise forever exhilarated this Damn Good Dawg.
Butch Mulherin

3 weeks ago | mainstreetnews.com | Loran Smith

Butch Mulherin, the first orthopedic MD to hang out his shingle in Athens, was a Georgia native, a Bulldog football letterman, a man of good humor with a deep and abiding passion for following a birddog through the brush and bramble of family acreage near Damascus in deep Southwest Georgia. Seeing patients flourish physically following surgery and knocking down a pair of Bob Whites on a covey rise forever exhilarated this Damn Good Dawg.