Joe Whitfield is the sports editor for the Albany Herald. He graduated from the Henry Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He is an avid Georgia Bulldog fan and passionate about local sports in Albany. He has two daughters and seven grandchildren.
The home runs kept leaving the ballpark. Georgia's lead kept shrinking. The ghosts of last year's Super Regional heartbreak began creeping back into Foley Field.
As his mother, Vanessa Dixon, sat to his left, Lee County offensive lineman Shavezz Dixon reached for a North Carolina cap Friday afternoon and made official a decision that will send him to Chapel Hill to play for Hall of Fame coach Bill Belichick and the Tar Heels.