The news comes after 11Alive's UGA Insider Radi Nabulsi shared that Sonny Smart suffered a fall in front of his hotel earlier this week.

Sonny Smart, a veteran high school football coach and the father of Kirby Smart, head football coach at the University of Georgia, has passed away due to complications from his New Year's Eve hip inju ...

Sonny Smart, a football coach at two Georgia high schools and father of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart, died early Saturday, UGA announced ...

Sonny Smart, the father of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart, died Saturday after complications from hip surgery after falling before the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the school announced.

This is that kind of place, and Sonny Smart was fit for its environment. Coach Smart was not a complicated man. He was one ...

Sonny Smart, father of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, died early Saturday in New Orleans after complications from hip surgery. Georgia said that all three of Sonny Smart’s children — Karl ...

Clyde J. “Sonny” Smart Jr. died last week after complications from surgery in New Orleans, where his son Kirby Smart was preparing to play in the Sugar Bowl.

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s father, Sonny, died early Saturday of complications from hip surgery after falling in New Orleans ahead of the Sugar Bowl, the school announced.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s father, Sonny, died early Saturday of complications from hip surgery after falling in New Orleans ahead of the Sugar Bowl, the school announced. Sonny Smart ...