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B/R's Cameon Shiflett Needs Our Prayers

Dear B/R Friends, One of B/R's best needs our prayers right now. Cameon Shiflett was in a very bad car accident this past weekend and is in ICU. She was coming home from a band competition on Saturday night and was hit by a drunk driver...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 month ago 642 reads 60 comments
The Ethics of Posting on Bulletin Boards: You Decide

In the past few weeks, I have read quite a bit on B/R about how one should, or should not, go about establishing himself here as a writer...

Written by Gray Ghost about 10 months ago 582 reads 153 comments
Calling All College Football Losers! Cut the Excuses and Try These on for Size

This has been an interesting college football season to say the least! There have been some great football games, and some we would just as soon forget. We, as fans, have certain things in common besides our love of the game and loyalty to our team...

Written by Gray Ghost about 10 months ago 653 reads 99 comments
The Team Concept of College Football

One of the things I love most about college football is the team concept that is still evident. It is the continuation of a concept that has been promoted from Pee Wee to junior high to high school and on into college football...

Written by Gray Ghost about 11 months ago 1,032 reads 73 comments
Keep Driving! Who Needs a College Football Potty Stop?

When I was a boy, my family would take a two-week vacation every summer to St. Petersburg, Florida. We would stay in the Sea Breeze Cottages at Madera Beach right on the St. John’s Pass, where the river met the Gulf of Mexico...

Written by Gray Ghost about 12 months ago 435 reads 68 comments
Georgia-Florida: College Football's Greatest Rivalry

I am not going to bore you with stats and records from past games in this series. I’m not even going to give you a breakdown of how I think this game will play out on the field this coming Saturday...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 1,330 reads 124 comments
The Young Guns of the B/R College Football Community

When I was a boy growing up in Savannah, Ga., my family would take trips to visit some kinfolk who lived on a farm near Norway, S.C. My Mom was from a little South Carolina town called Tarborough, and we had relatives throughout the low country...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 1,211 reads 99 comments
Gray Ghost Speaks Out to the College Football Community

No man is an island unto himself. Yes, there are times when the human spirit reaches deep within itself and gives us the wherewithal to do something so singular and remarkable that all of the world sits up and takes notice...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 923 reads 102 comments
My Student: My Hero!

This past Friday began as a struggle for me. Quite honestly, I wasn’t looking forward to my normal Saturday of college football, or anything else, for that matter...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 1,336 reads 146 comments
College Football Serves Up Southern-Style Humble Pie—Yours Is in the Oven!

I love southern cooking! It really doesn’t get much better than a plate of southern fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans (slow cooked with some ham hock), corn-on-the-cob, cat-head ...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 1,865 reads 145 comments
Four Ways To Earn Your Props in the B/R College Football Community

Let me establish from the beginning that this is not another “Let’s take Bleacher Report to the next level” article. However well-meaning those may be, that is not the intent of this article...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 2,339 reads 133 comments
Home Boys: 10 Reasons the Georgia Bulldogs Don't Like To Travel

This won’t be a touchy-feel-good article! I’m angry! I’m talkin’ let’s throw it down country-boy mad! First of all, for those of you who don’t know me, ...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 7,387 reads 128 comments
College Football's "Grunts" of the Gridiron Are Just Everyday Joes

In his double pick-of-the-day article, Thomas Leemon did a wonderful job of pointing out that sports was one of the things that helped our nation return to normalcy after the unthinkable happened on September 11, 2001...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 1,258 reads 73 comments
College Football Saturdays: The Empty Chair

It washed over me again this weekend as I was watching my Georgia Bulldogs play football. It was that unexpected wave of inner emotion that always leaves me flooded with memories of days gone by...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 1,762 reads 140 comments
College Football Fans, Help Me Save Bleacher Report!

Yes, my fellow Bleacher Creatures, that is the face of anger!!! This article could very well save the future of our beloved website! Some of the most highly respected writers on Bleacher ...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 4,435 reads 123 comments
The 2007 Fiesta Bowl: How The DAWGS Helped Boise State Beat Oklahoma.

That’s my mailbox here in Idaho. As far as I know, it is the only Georgia mailbox in the entire state. I put it up shortly after the Dawgs spanked Boise State pretty thoroughly in Athens...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 887 reads 24 comments
Fumbling the Deal: The 10 Worst Trades in Sports History!

Ah, the trade! “I’ll trade you two of these for one of those!” I got involved with the business early in my life, and even though it was just for marbles, I still remember the euphoria of pulling off what I thought was a good deal...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 3,559 reads 26 comments
Fumbling the Mic: Football's 10 Worst TV Commentators

The main job of the man behind the microphone at a football game, or at any other sporting event, is to contribute information that is vital to the viewers understanding of the game...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 3,230 reads 99 comments
OPEN MIC: AMERICA Verses CHINA! When the world goes home.

There are those who would have us believe that we have all gathered together in Beijing as one big happy family to play games and to share high-fives...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 223 reads 14 comments
Where Is Mark Spitz? Michael Phelps, History, and a Lack of Class!

Where is Mark Spitz? Uninvited? Unwanted? Unseen? He has not yet been invited to Beijing, and if that remains the case, it will be because Olympic organizers are lacking, among others things, a sense of history and propriety...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 5,969 reads 78 comments
PENALTY! Throwing The Flag Outside The Lines!

Does it matter what an athlete does outside the lines? Should we only care how he/she performs inside the arena of his/her chosen sport? Should an athlete be expected to be a role model? How ...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 167 reads 4 comments
As Good As Gold!: My 20 Favorite Olympic Memories

Now that the 2008 Summer Olympics are upon us, I want to say, without apology, that I am red, white, and blue! Go USA! What a great time for all nations to cheer for their best athletes as they feel that surge of patriotism the Olympics brings out in us..

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 666 reads 6 comments
The Top 10 Heisman Fumbles of All Time: Who Should Have Won

While Tim Tebow was the first to break the unspoken rule that only juniors and seniors could win the Heisman, there were others before him that should have won—and one of them was a freshman! ...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 6,471 reads 170 comments
Michael Vick and PETA: And We Thought Mike Was the Sick One!

Let me begin by saying that I am no fan of Mike Vick. Never have been. His string of bad judgments emanated from his bad character...

Written by Gray Ghost about about 1 year ago 1,556 reads 54 comments

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Gray Ghost Article Archive

B/R's Cameon Shiflett Needs Our Prayers

The Ethics of Posting on Bulletin Boards: You Decide

Calling All College Football Losers! Cut the Excuses and Try These on for Size

The Team Concept of College Football

Keep Driving! Who Needs a College Football Potty Stop?

Georgia-Florida: College Football's Greatest Rivalry

The Young Guns of the B/R College Football Community

Gray Ghost Speaks Out to the College Football Community

My Student: My Hero!

College Football Serves Up Southern-Style Humble Pie—Yours Is in the Oven!

Four Ways To Earn Your Props in the B/R College Football Community

Home Boys: 10 Reasons the Georgia Bulldogs Don't Like To Travel

College Football's "Grunts" of the Gridiron Are Just Everyday Joes

College Football Saturdays: The Empty Chair

College Football Fans, Help Me Save Bleacher Report!

The 2007 Fiesta Bowl: How The DAWGS Helped Boise State Beat Oklahoma.

Fumbling the Deal: The 10 Worst Trades in Sports History!

Fumbling the Mic: Football's 10 Worst TV Commentators

OPEN MIC: AMERICA Verses CHINA! When the world goes home.

Where Is Mark Spitz? Michael Phelps, History, and a Lack of Class!

PENALTY! Throwing The Flag Outside The Lines!

As Good As Gold!: My 20 Favorite Olympic Memories

The Top 10 Heisman Fumbles of All Time: Who Should Have Won

Michael Vick and PETA: And We Thought Mike Was the Sick One!

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