Blog Topic: Sports

Culture Briefs: UGA Hockey, Classic Center Ice Skating Kick Off Today

By Blake Aued | September 21, 2014 1:23pm

Photo Credit: Porter McLeod

The University of Georgia Ice Dawgs kick off their season at 1:30 p.m. today against archrivals Florida at their new home at the Classic Center.

And following the game, at 5 p.m. the Classic Center will open up its temporary hockey rink to the general public. Admission is $12 and includes skate rental. Go to classiccenter.com for the full ice-skating calendar.

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Culture Briefs: UGA Football's Preseason Hype Video Will Make You Weep Like a Baby

By Gabe Vodicka | August 27, 2014 1:35pm

Football—particularly college football—comes with a metric ton of baggage. What's happening to these poor players' brains? Why aren't they paid? Are their First Amendment rights being violated, to boot? And why the hell are nonconference SEC schedules soinsubstantial?

But. Forget all that negative stuff for three minutes and watch the warm, beautifully shot, faith-in-humanity-restoring, holy-shit-we're-gonna-win-a-championship-aren't-we 2014 Georgia football hype video below.

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Culture Briefs: Classic City Rollergirls vs. Greenville Recap

By David Eduardo | August 25, 2014 10:55am

If you missed Saturday night’s matchup between our Classic City Rollergirls and the visiting Greenville Derby Dames, you’ll have to wait until next year to catch women’s flat track roller derby at the Classic Center. The 2014 season came to an end in front of a nearly sold-out crowd that witnessed some pretty memorable jamming, and an impressive yoga demo at halftime.

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Culture Briefs: UGA Receiver Michael Bennett Hates 'The Bachelorette,' Wants to Be Paid

By Blake Aued | August 1, 2014 3:11pm

The World Cup's over, and the Barves—let's face it—are pretty mediocre. But never fear, sports fans! Football season is right around the corner.

The Bulldogs started fall practice today, but before they did, they opened the Buttsmear doors to the media, even us unsavory alt-weekly types. Here are a few highlights from the press conference.

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Culture Briefs: Classic City Rollergirls vs. Bowling Green Recap

By David Eduardo | July 23, 2014 10:27am

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Culture Briefs: Watch Chris Conley's Star Wars Fan Film, Retribution

By Gabe Vodicka | July 5, 2014 2:50pm

For months, UGA wide receiver Chris Conley has been working on a Star Wars fan film with a cast and crew of friends and fans. In April, we showed you the trailer for Retribution, and now you can finally see the full results of Conley's hard work.

Below, watch the 26-minute short, which was shot on and around the UGA campus and features cameos from some recognizable local faces. It is ridiculous and nerdy and slick and basically the best thing ever.

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Culture Briefs: We Live-Tweeted the USA's Crushing Defeat at the World Cup

By Blake Aued | July 2, 2014 10:57am

Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones

Me, Flagpole music editor Gabe Vodicka, beer writer Jacob Yarbrough and film critic Derek Hill, that is. It went about like you'd expect.

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Culture Briefs: We're Live-Tweeting the USA-Belgium World Cup Game

By Blake Aued | July 1, 2014 1:40pm

Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones

USA! USA!

In a rare moment of national pride and in celebration of our socialist roots, a mostly bewildered Flagpole staff has decided to live-tweet this game other countries mistakenly call "football."

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Culture Briefs: Athens Watches the World Cup

By Blake Aued | June 27, 2014 11:03am

Plenty of Athens residents played hooky Thursday to watch the U.S. advance to the knockout round in the World Cup in spite of a 1–0 loss to Germany, thanks to Portugal's win over Ghana. Flagpole photo intern Joshua L. Jones was on the scene.

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Culture Briefs: Classic City Rollergirls vs. Dixie Derby Girls Recap

By David Eduardo | June 10, 2014 1:09pm

Photo Credit: Gene Rabin

Last Saturday morning, the Classic City Rollergirls caravanned through the North Georgia hills and Cumberland Plateau, over more than 230 rural highway miles, to face the heavily favored Dixie Derby Girls in Huntsville, AL. CCRG lost by five points in a heartbreaker to Dixie last season in Athens. When the team took the concrete track shortly after 6 p.m. at the National Speleological Society Conference Center, they showed no signs of being road-weary—or the least bit intimidated.

Both squads went scoreless in the evening’s first jam, setting the tone for the entire bout. These were defensive-minded, physical skaters, unafraid to mix it up in the pack. Classic City quickly acclimated themselves to the opposition and track conditions. High Jinxxx scored seven hard-earned points during her second jam, followed by an impressive 14-point scoring effort by pivot Elizabeth Impaler after jammer Louis Strongarm had the presence of mind to pass the scoring star to her teammate.

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