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, the father of University of Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart, has died after suffering a fall in New Orleans on New Year's Day.

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

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.

Sonny fell and fractured his hip on Jan. 1 in New Orleans, where he was set to watch Kirby’s team play in the Sugar Bowl ...

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 ...

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.