About UGASports

UGASports and DawgsHQ have merged into one super site. The two Georgia market leaders will now be combined under one roof. All the scoop, breaking news, analysis, opinions, and in-depth reporting will now be available in one spot. 

Rusty Mansell, Jake Rowe, and Jeremy Johnson are joining the UGASports staff. They will spend their days on The DawgVent and the Vault message boards, dropping scoop and answering questions. Anthony Dasher, Jed May, and Harrison Reno will round out the staff.  Radi Nabulsi will remain as publisher.

This merger will make UGASports the second-biggest fan site in the On3 network, just behind Warchant. 

Shannon Terry, the Founder and CEO of On3 and Rivals, was there at the beginning of both sites.

“Merging UGASports and DawgsHQ is a major win for Georgia fans and the college sports media industry,” Terry said. “The new UGASports, featuring The DawgVent, brings together every available resource and immediately becomes one of the three largest fan-site communities in the industry—across all networks and independent sites.”

UGASports has been the top Georgia fan site since 1997, a success that came primarily from its legendary message board community. The DawgVent is the heart of UGASports and has served as the pulse of the Georgia fanbase. It is one of the most active boards in all of college football. Bringing in three nationally renowned reporters will only strengthen the board.

DawgsHQ burst onto the Georgia scene five years ago and has been one of the fastest-growing sites in the On3 network. Mansell, Rowe, and Johnson made DawgsHQ a daily must-read for all Georgia fans. They built a scoop-and-analysis juggernaut from scratch, a feat that is almost impossible in this era of aggregation news sites

Now the two best sources for Georgia team and recruiting news have been combined into one staff. Convenience for our readers was one of the top factors in the merger. Yet it was not the only one. The main reasons were scoop and potential.