Tuesday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Braves/All-Star game (plenty to read/view); SIAC/FVSU football; Experts=Fromm's pretty good (wow); MGSU baseball moves; and more
Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
SIAC holds football media day
Fort Valley State’s love was only so-so as far as where the Wildcats are expected to finish and how many preseason all-conference players they have.
In The Latest Coverage.
Breaking news: QBs-turned-analysts think Jake Fromm is pretty good
Jesse Palmer and Trent Dilfer share the shocker at Sports Illustrated in a general QBs discussion. And yet, there continues to be some hints of a sort of dismissiveness, for lack of a better word. “He’s not overly talented, not that he lacks talent.” OK.
Braves Report
Soroka in the All-Star game? No prob
Fun with Freddie
Will juiced balls help the Braves?
Around/About Central Georgia
MGSU’s Rookard moving on
M.J. Rookard has been playing upper-level baseball at Middle Georgia State and for the Macon Bacon in the Coastal Plain League, and it’s paid off.
Rookard has signed with the Gary (Ind.) Southshore Railcats of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.
The AAIPB, founded in 2005, has teams in the Midwest, Southwest, and Canada, while league offices are in Durham, N.C.
Rookard led the Coastal with a .382 average and 39 hits, was second in runs, fourth in on-base percentage, and seventh in total bases.
MGSU loses pitching coach
After three successful seasons, Middle Georgia State pitching coach John Jeanes is moving up, but not too far away.
Jeanes has taken the same position at USC Aiken, a member of the Division II Peach Belt Conference and rival of Georgia College.
Around/About Georgia
A sitdown with Hawks GM Schlenk
UGA hoops opens with WCU, face Memphis
Georgia Southern football game day info updated