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December 25, 2021 Central Georgia Sports Report

Friday and Saturday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Early edition, may be updated.

Santa’s missive to go with a later-in-the-day Christmas Sports Report coincided with The Sports Reports reporter spending about eight hours at the Middle Georgia Veterinary Emergency Center in Warner Robins – thumbs up to those folks – to deal with a puppydawg, who has now given permission to catch up a bit.

College Football
Georgia State 51, Ball State 20
NBA
New York 101, Atlanta 87

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Sports and COVID

Two more games postponed for No. 5 UCLA

Alumni Update

Fromm goes from COVID QB to starter on Sunday

The debut comes 19 months after The Tweet

Inside Fromm’s mind before the start: Q&A

Peach County’s Jackson confirms NFL plans

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Walker’s triple-double leads Knicks over Hawks in battle of short-handeds

NFL prospect galore with Michigan and Georgia

The odd history with Atlanta and Detroit

What to watch with Falcons and Lions

Central Georgians in Saturday’s bowl
Georgia State: Offensive lineman Trey Bonner played. DB Jaquez Pennimon of Southwest, OL Travis Glover of Dooly County, and TE Ezeqiel Marion of Perry didn’t play.

Grainger, Georgia State hammer Ball State

Domination in record eighth win

Georgia Southern adds three more power-5 assistants

College Football/South

For final Vols of 2017, staying and going

Sisters prepared Bama’s Anderson for the SEC

UCF won more than just a bowl game

College Football

Wyoming doesn’t hide that it needs quarterbacks

College Sports

Foreign athletes left out of rush for NIL windfall

NFL