Friday's Daily News 'n Notes: UGA's No. 10s are from Mary Persons/Peach County; SoCon coaches, UGA, United, Braves, Hawks, Tech, NASCAR, and notable news
Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
GHSA makes COVID workout adjustment
Quietly, the GHSA posted on its website Thursday that fall sports teams can expand the workout groups from 20 to 25 starting on Monday.
The five additions “should be new additions only”, but all previous guidelines and standards – including no movement from one group to another – remain in place.
Alumni Update
UGA’s No. 10s: offense from Peach County, defense from Mary Persons
Around/About Georgia
From LA to Athens, a quarterback
United in good shape for opener
A different restocking for the Braves
Hawks ready to get going again
Tech jazzed about MLB draft picks
Trae Young, family put up $4 mil for multi-sport facility in Oklahoma
Braves escape shortened draft in good shape
Sports and race/George Floyd
Bubba Wallace’s voice found, heard
Texas athletes: change names, change song, change more
Iowa football undergoing transformation?
Around the nation/world/COVID-related
U. of Houston and a huge testing blunder
NCAA: give teams day off to vote (like GTech did a few weeks ago)
Sign of normalcy: lawsuit about a contract
And now, young baseball players wait
RBC Heritage field is strong, even without Tiger