Tuesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer, Georgia College hoops; All-SEC, All-ACC; Georgia Southern; Auburn's new coach, 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.
Central Georgia’s only daily and complete Scoreboard is up in Coverage (where the efforts on Tuesdays and Fridays are ignored)
Around/About Central Georgia
Bender leads Mercer past Kennesaw State
Georgia College hoops to start with no fans
Around/About Georgia
Camarda earns SEC special teams POY honor (All-SEC)
Hawks hope big spending pays big dividends
It’s Louisiana Tech and Georgia Southern in New Orleans
Georgia stays unbeaten with W over Northeastern
Sports and racial/social awareness
NFL players on social justice front end up as award nominees
Sports and COVID
Florida’s Johnson diagnosed with heart condition, perhaps COVID related
South Carolina pulls out of bowl
College Football
Auburn has a new football coach
He was a Boise lifer, until now
Earlier Tuesday: Auburn looks desperate, muddled in search
Dabo and Day making for an antsy leadup to semifinal
New Illinois boss Bielema wants in-state recruiting improved
BYU’s Wilson racks up numbers in win over UCF
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Balanced Nevada rolls past Nevada
LSU assistants Ensminger and Johnson retiring
Air Force and Navy to play on Sept. 11
NFL
Miami run game catching stride
Washington’s Haskins digs hole: maskless at strip establishment after loss
And his team settles for $1.6 million to settle claim vs. owner
College Basketball
Florida’s Johnson diagnosed with heart condition, perhaps COVID related
No. 1 Gonzaga tops Northwestern State for second straight night
WVU loses another top-5 meeting, at Kansas
NBA
Nearly 80 former SEC players on NBA opening rosters
Around the nation/world
‘The Murph’ comes down in San Diego
Men’s college basketball scoreboard
Women’s college basketball scoreboard