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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

J.T. Daniels update

And others are banged up

UGA’s Anderson playing for an Angel

New Wildcats anxious to play at Sanford

Mark Stoops talks (video)

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

Punting is winning for Iowa

 

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

Skechers dumps Gruden

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

Seattle falls in NHL debut

Ovechkin starts big contract chasing Gretzky

USMNT’s McKennie is back, refuses to talk to media

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games