30 years ago, this happened:

Be sure to check out Belue to Scott, a new book on the game.

Several people found this useful when we did it for the Kentucky game, so we’ll do it again. Fortunately finding the Idaho State game (12:30 kickoff) will be much less complicated.

Do you get Atlanta’s ABC affiliate WSB-TV (Channel 2)?

If so, you’re set. That applies to all cable, satellite, and antenna viewers who can get Atlanta’s WSB-TV. That includes the 53-county Atlanta TV market as well as certain cable systems in Albany, Macon, Savannah, Columbus, Chattanooga, Greenville, and Tallahassee. Check your channel guide if you have any doubt.

If you’re on Dish Network, see if you get WSB on channel 8300 before you order Gameplan.

Note that the game is NOT an ABC production. You won’t find it on any other ABC affiliate.

For everyone else, it’s ESPN Gameplan

The game is blacked out on Gameplan in the local WSB-TV market (see map), but that’s the extent of the restriction. Once you order Gameplan, here are the channels:

• DirecTV: Channel 792
• Dish: Channel 459/465

Online

ESPN3 will also have the game. The same blackout for metro Atlanta that applies to Gameplan could apply.

We hope that you choke, that you choke

The thing that gets me about the Grantham story isn’t the manufactured outrage from the Florida camp or the local media. We expect it from them (but, jeez Tony Barnhart). It’s that a fair number of Georgia fans are so willing to fall into line for the self-flagellation. Here we go forging another sword for the sole purpose of falling on it – there’s no fan base better at it.

I have to admit though that I’m now giving long thought to opting out of the “BLOCK THAT KICK!” cheer this weekend. That’s just not how things are done at Georgia.

Hoops

If you’re looking for a distraction from the football season, both basketball teams will start their seasons with exhibition games during the next week. The men open this Thursday night (an unfortunate missed opportunity with Saturday’s home football game). The women host their exhibition next Wednesday. We learned last week that the men will start the season just outside the national rankings, and the Red & Black reports that the women will open the season #19 in the initial AP poll.

McGarity makes a move

Volleyball coach Joel McCartney was dismissed on Monday after a relatively disappointing four years at the helm. The season is still ongoing, and an assistant will take over on an interim basis. This is new athletic director Greg McGarity’s first head coaching change. Some will read a lot into this move – certainly justified by the state of the program – and suggest it’s a signal that the bar is being raised for other coaches and programs, but we have no idea what else went on to bring about a midseason change for a nonrevenue sport.

Singing virus

Finally, UGA graduate student and composer Alexandra Pajak has created a musical composition based on the genetic sequence of the HIV virus. “Sounds of HIV (Azica Records)…explores the patterns of the virus’s nucleotides as well as the amino acids transcribed by HIV, playing through these biologic signatures in 17 tracks.”