Tuesday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Braves, UGA, Dream, Hawks, Tech; Gruden fallout/NFL, MLB playoffs, colleges, 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.
In Coverage: The Braves get late-game heroics, into the NLCS; Central Georgia’s only regular HS softball coverage
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Around/About Georgia/Southeast
UGA’s Anderson playing for an Angel
New Wildcats anxious to play at Sanford
Atlanta Dream pick Tanisha Wright as new coach
Hawks get waivers on Okafor, Young and Hunter return
Tech’s Pastner part of transition period for ACC men’s hoops
College Football/South
Louisiana-Lafayette romps past App State
Anything/everything often happens in LSU-Florida
Texas D needs fix before Oklahoma State
College Football
Football back at Grinnell, where players voted to stop last season
Big 12 defenses are trendy again
Playoff schedule
Thursday: Dodgers at Giants, 9 p.m., TBS
Friday: ALCS, Red Sox at Astros, 8 p.m., FOX
Saturday: ALCS, Red Sox at Astros, FOX or FS1; NLCS, Atlanta vs. TBA, TBS
Sunday: NLCS, Atlanta vs. TBA, TBS
Baseball
Dodgers power past Giants to force deciding game
Houston blows by Chicago to return to the ALCS
LaRussa’s Sox folded up in the drawer early again
And LaRussa grumpy about late beanball
NFL
Davis’ dream hire turns into a nightmare
NFL won’t release Gruden-related emails
Tampa Bay removes Gruden from Ring of Honor
Rodgers on Gruden: Those thoughts “don’t have a place in the game’
Keyshawn on Gruden: Fraud and used car salesman
Dungy and Tirico backpedal on Gruden defense
NFLPA: Let’s all see the rest of the emails in the Washington probe
Steelers finally show some balance
But Smith-Schuster is done for the year
Cousins gives $500,000 to social justice group
Bears’ D, run game helping Fields
College Sports
Mississippi State women’s hoops coach McCray-Penson resigns for health
ACC hoops in a big transition period
Big fine, no prosecution for ex-coach in admissions scam
NBA/WNBA
Irving’s latest viewpoint on not being vaccinated
How will the Sixers welcome Simmons back?
Sports and social & racial awareness
Cousins gives $500,000 to social justice group
Sports and COVID-19
NHL nears 100 percent vaccination
Around the nation/world
Ovechkin starts big contract chasing Gretzky
USMNT’s McKennie is back, refuses to talk to media