A look back at 2010: UGA spring and QB race; spring football, Mercer, Georgia College, the Masters, and much more
Wednesday, April 7
Roddy Jones continues shuffling back and forth from spring football to playing outfield for the Georgia Tech baseball team
Chipper Jones drilled a two-run homer in the eighth for a 3-2 Atlanta win over the Cubs
Thursday, April 8
Tailback Caleb King won’t play in the G-Day game, and Todd Grantham said that Richard Samuel will return to linebacker in the fall after playing running back again in the spring game
Fred Couples shot a 66 to top the Masters leaderboard, Tiger Woods two back at 68
Butler and Brad Stevens agreed to a 12-year deal that would keep him with the Bulldogs through the 2021-22 season
Friday, April 9
Quarterbacks Zach Mettenberger, Aaron Murray, and Logan Gray will be a focal point in Saturday’s G-Day game, as will the 3-4 scheme of new defensive coordinator Todd Grantham
Only a freshman, Georgia Tech’s Derrick Favors says he’s going to the NBA, after averaging 12.4 points and 8.4 rebounds
Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood have the lead in Augusta
Saturday, April 10
There were no answers at QB for Georgia after G-Day. Zach Mettenberger did go 6 for 10 for 150 yards. WR Kris Durham and LB Marcus Dowtin were among those with good game
Jawuan Luckey, A.J. McCray, Russell DeMasi, and Brent Osborn are battling it out at quarterback for Georgia Southern, a scrimmage not offering much clarity
Georgia Tech back Anthony Allen has a solid scrimmage for Tech
Central grad Robert Moore is named head men’s basketball coach at Columbus State
Jenni Holtz rolled past Katie Rosentreter as the Mercer softball all-time strikeouts leader, the junior finishing the day with 724 after whiffing 14 over the weekend
Lee Westwood is up one stroke on Phil Mickelson after three rounds of the Masters
Sunday, April 11
Dublin’s Sherrard Brantley, who helped the Irish to the GHSA Class AA state title, announces he’s heading to Georgia
Former Baldwin and Clemson standout LeRoy Hill was arrested in a Seattle suburb on a charge of fourth-degree domestic violence, only days after taking a plea in Georgia on a marijuana charge
Phil Mickelson pulled ahead and beat Lee Westwood by three shots for his third Masters title in seven years
Stephen Garcia, expected to start in the fall, had a good spring game for South Carolina, as did Kyle Parker at Clemson and John Brantley for Florida. Tennessee coach Derek Dooley wasn’t happy with the Vols in a scrimmage, but Bill Curry was jazzed about Georgia State’s first spring game
Monday, April 12
Most of John Carrick’s adult life had taken place at Georgia College, but that’s coming to an end with the announcement that he was resigning as head women’s basketball coach, completely. He had done so a few years early as a full-time employee. His entire career had been in Central Georgia, at Putnam County for nearly a decade and then at GC starting in 1983, leaving with a 474-305 record with the Bobcats