Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Updated HS FB schedules; Falcons hammer Raiders; UGA, Tech; Georgia Southern makes a move; Mercer hoops
Sunday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.
ICYMI over the weekend: Full Friday high school playoff coverage, full Saturday high school playoff coverage, more HS basketball scores than anywhere else; UGA-USC, Tech-Duke, Mercer-Tech hoops, and so much more
Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer men host Georgia State Monday night
Macon TD Club welcomes Kennesaw State’s Bohannon
Kennesaw State head coach Brian Bohannon is Monday night’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Cost is $30 for non-members. This is the final meeting of the regular season. Georgia’s Kirby Smart is again the jamboree speaker in February.
Mary Persons is this week’s featured high school.
Bohannon, who turns 50 on Dec. 17, is a Griffin Macon native who grew up in x and graduated from x. He was a wideout at Georgia in the early 90s, and coaching quickly beckoned.
He started at West Georgia, then spent a year at Gardner-Webb before five years at Georgia Southern (WRs and DBs) under Paul Johnson, who he joined at Navy and then Georgia Tech.
Bohannon became Kennesaw State’s first head coach in March of 2013, with 2015 the first season.
He has yet to have a losing record, going 6-5 overall and 2-4 in the Big South in that first season. The Owls have turned into an FCS power, reaching two quarterfinals and the second round in 2017-18-19. Bohannon is 48-15 overall and 20-7 in conference play.
Bohannon is a three-time finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award, and has been the Big South’s coach of the year twice.
Alumni Update
Around/About Central Georgia
Around/About Georgia
Falcons dominate on O and D, rout Raiders
Column: This is what the Falcons should be
Tech win over Duke deserves more attention
Georgia Southern makes a chance at OC
Fagan leads Bulldogs past FAMU in men’s BKB opener
Taylor gets 100th win in as UGA tops Tech
Sports and social & racial awareness
Sports and COVID-19/Georgia
Sports and COVID-19
Updated football and basketball changes
Saints, Patriots hit with big COVID fines
NFL
Hill has huge game, but Chiefs nip Bucs by only three
Rough day for Broncos and the QB who’s not a QB
Henry helps Titans top Colts, take AFC South lead
Beebe makes up for fumble in Vikings’ win
Buffalo holds on to top Chargers
Rodgers passes for four TDs in win over Bears
College Football
Vanderbilt cuts Mason loose in his seventh season
Women’s sports legends check in with Fuller, who wants to keep kicking
College Basketball
Former Mercer rival coach Rick Byrd of Belmont gets college hoops Hall call
Byrd joins six players and another coach
Around the nation/world
Tyson fired up some doobage before meeting with Jones
After breast cancer battle, Syracuse’s Mangakahia returns in style