Sunday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; playoff pairings, Henley; Jordan to visit TD Club; United, UGA/Tech, KSU; college FB (Mullen), BKB, NFL, NBA

Sunday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; playoff pairings, Henley; Jordan to visit TD Club; United, UGA/Tech, KSU; college FB (Mullen), BKB, NFL, NBA

Sunday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.

 

In Coverage: Updated GHSA and GISA playoff pairings

Coming Monday: Macon TD Club winners; Monday Morning Quarterback 

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College
Basketball

W-Georgia 73, Alabama State 43

M-Georgia State 74, High Point 66

W-Mercer 63, Gardner-Webb 50

M-Wofford 70, Georgia Southern 52

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Macon TD Club welcomes Brian Jordan

                     Former Atlanta Falcon – and Braves – Brian Jordan is Monday’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.

          The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Admission for non-members is $30.

          Rutland is the featured high school. Author and ESPN senior writer Mark Schlabach is next week’s speaker in the final meeting of the season. Georgia’s Kirby Smart makes his annual visit in the jamboree in February.

          Jordan is a Baltimore native who was an all-conference baseball and football player at Richmond, earning All-America honors in football. He was picked in the first round of the 1988 baseball draft by St. Louis and in the seventh round of the NFL draft in 1989 by Buffalo.

          He was cut by the Bills, but latched on with the Falcons from 1989-91, but gave up football after St. Louis gave him a new contract with a signing bonus to stick to baseball.

          Jordan went to his second Atlanta team for the first time in 1998, and he spent three seasons there, moving to the Dodgers and Rangers before returning to the Braves in 2005 for two seasons.

          He now works in the broadcast booth, doing baseball and football while also heading the Brian Jordan Foundation, in which he works to inspire youngsters to read.

 

Henley gets a top-25 finish

          Russell Henley survived a double-bogey to finish with an under-par round and tie for 22nd in the RSM Classic.

          Henley shot 68 on Sunday to finish 10 under with a 272.

          Talor Gooch rolled to a three-shot win.

          The field for the Dec. 2-5 Hero World Challenge in the Bahams won’t be announced until later this week.

 

WBKB: Doughtery just misses double-double in road win

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

New York blanked United in playoffs

Georgia a big favorite over Tech

And as a not-so-big favorite over Alabama

Blaylock returns, is Pickens next?

Kennesaw State hosts Davidson in FCS first round
FCS bracket

WBKB: Georgia improves to 4-0

WBKB: No. 18 Tech surprised by Auburn

 

College Football/South

Fired: Florida cans Dan with a game left

(Pre-firing) Column: Keep Mullen, unless … (but Dan Mullen is done)

Stricklin woke up and knew

Reactions ranged

Fired: Troy’s Lindsey, with a game left

 

College Football

AP poll: Ohio State jumps Bama, Cincy

Coaches poll: Buckeyes up to 3

How many teams are bowl eligible?

Top-25 takeaways

Notes and observations: Drinkwitz trolls soon-to-be-former Florida coach

Column: Uh, Michigan State?

 

College Basketball

M-Virginia Tech gets 1,500th win

M-Tennessee bops UNC in Tip-Off tourney

 

NFL

D the key, not QB, in KC win over Dallas

Cincinnati romps over reeling Raiders

Backup QB leads Ravens to last-minute win

Chubb good for 130 yards as Brown survive Lions

Revived 49ers roll over Jags

Colts’ Taylor goes off in Colts’ bashing of Buffalo

Miami is suddenly warm, wins third straight

Houston beat Tennessee?

Herbert throws for 382 yards vs. at-home-away-from-home Steelers

 

Golf/Tennis

Olympic officials: tennis star Peng says she is safe

 

NBA/WNBA

LeBron draws blood in melee with Pistons

Fired: Luke Walton, early in his third season

Pippen’s book is his own ‘Last Dance’ story, and different

 

Around the nation/world

College football scores/games

NFL scores/games

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

Men’s college basketball

Women’s college basketball