Wednesday'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: Braves-Astros Game 2; GHSA softball championship pairings

Coming Thursday: The Sports Report’s predictions; more on GHSA softball

 

Scoreboard
College
Volleyball
FVSU 3, Allen 0

 

Alumni Update

Upson-Lee’s ‘freak’ Walker getting better

And he “is a dog”                                                      

Peach County’s Jackson talks

 

Honor Roll

SoCon: Mercer’s Karle top student-athlete

SoCon WGLF: Mercer’s Dubnik

 

Around/About Central Georgia

FVSU women picked fourth in SIAC East

SIAC East picks FVSU men sixth

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Oops: UGA-UF in Jacksonville only contracted through 2023

UGA title hopes helped by down year in East

Gators expecting both QBs

Davis enjoying ride on a no-name, many-name defense

UGA update

Ranking Koo’s field goals

Falcons injury update

Early expectations for Hawks

Atlanta gets gut-check win over Pelicans

Hawks’ Young testing the ‘draw a foul’ rule

United rally to beat Miami

 

Baseball

Cruz wins Clemente Award

Ohtani gets award from MLB for two-way All-Star season

Documentary examines Bonds’ HOF bid

Manfred on work stoppage, Astros, tomahawk chop, and more

Who’s pitching? + ‘Everybody’ = not good for the game

 

College Football/South

Former ‘5-star’ Bailey from Marietta leaving Tennessee

Clemson’s bell curve

Suspended Va. Tech player indicted in Tinder death

ACC teams lighting up conference scoreboards

 

College Football

Five QBs lead Heisman race, for now

Utah to retire 22 to honor Jordan and Lowe

Struggle is real for Big Ten Os in the red zone

Ask Penn State

Iowa controls West fate

Predictions

 

College Basketball

Deeper look at the coaches Top 25 teams

 

College Sports

Old Dominion bolting C-USA for Sun Belt

 

NFL

The story of Brady and the young cancer patient

Saints ride Kamara’s dynamism

Mayfield testing shoulder, may play

Houston sends Ingram back to New Orleans

Blowouts are on the rise

Favre repays $600K in welfare speeches case

Bills flush memories of Titans’ loss

Predictions

 

NBA/WNBA

Oklahoma City storms back from 26 down to dump Westbrook, Lakers

 

Auto Racing

Writer watched race in Dawsonville, now gets it

 

Around the nation/world       

Blackhawks GM out, team fined after findings of investigation

Barcelona cans coach

ECHL team suspended from home arena

College football scores/games

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

 

College Football TV schedule