Saturday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.          

Braves’ Freeman tests positive for COVID-19

 UGA’s Gowen all about the Savannah Bananas and Coastal Plain League

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Bacon tie it in ninth, win it in 11th

          The Macon Bacon beat the Macon Eggs 11-10 on Saturday in an intersquad game at Luther Williams Field, coming back from 3-0 and 5-1 deficits.

          No box score or details were posted by 1 a.m.

          Macon visits Savannah at 7 p.m. Sunday and hosts the Bananas on Monday.

 

Around/About Georgia

Freeman test a grim reminder

Hamels working on endurance

Pitching depth huge in short season, good news for Atlanta

Hernandez won’t play, so Newcomb’s role changes

Braves quiet about name-change possibilities

That Braves July 4th tussle with the Mets in 1985 was a doozy

Everything about Atlanta impresses Damm

New agency doesn’t mean Trae Young is looking

 

Sports and COVID-19/Georgia

Athens numbers jump by 166 percent, so that means what for UGA?

 

Sports and COVID-19

College sports broadcast giant talking with colleges about patience, contracts, revenue

Mike Trout still debating

But the Dodgers’ Price has decided

MLS is back? Not so fast

MLS players and concerns

  

Sports and racial awareness

IndyCar puts up a mil to start diversity program

Remember when Daniel Snyder said ‘Never’?

 

Around the nation/world

Briscoe wins road race at Indy not far from home

Dixon breaks streak at Indy

The heat at Indy was huge

Odd time, but Austin Peay loses its HFBC

Former Vandy player expelled after sexual assault charge still used facilities

LaJoie to debut “Trump 2020” scheme in Sunday’s race

Former pitcher, three others in fatal plan crash