Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Braves' Opening Day, MLB OD; Kyle Lewis, Mercer-FSU; NCAA Tournament, disparities; more
Wednesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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Opening Day: Atlanta at Philadelphia
3:05 p.m., Bally Sports South
Soroka headed in right direction
Ready for a divisional bloodbath?
Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer’s Cummings puts sharp-shooting skills on national display tonight
Kyle Lewis to open season on IL with knee bruise
Mercer bats quieted at Florida State
WCU visits Mercer men’s soccer in regular-season finale
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
One Tech spring practice is in the books
UGA and Louisville to play football in awhile
SEC makes changes for spring meetings
Men’s NCAA Tournament
Write down Gonzaga as champ in ink?
UCLA’s ride to the Final Four unlike any other
Notes: Michigan setting the standard for academics and diversity in hoops
Big Ten takes it on the Final Four chin
Women’s NCAA Tournament
Geno defends Mulkey on topic they had just discussed
Coaches grill Emmert on disparities, apologies and promises made
College Basketball
UConn freshman Bueckers is AP’s player of the year
Maryland’s Frese women’s coach of the year
Getting to this point was, obviously, not easy; 8 of 10 conference games played
Baseball
Biden: Rangers are making a major mistake
Manfred hopes for full capacity by midway
Nationals player tests positive, four quarantined
Bold predictions for the season
Opening Day schedule (and Friday and Saturday)
Sports and COVID 19
NCAA: Nope, ending testing or delaying is no option
NFL
Kraft: Pressure is because of 7-9, not Brady’s Super Bowl
New Brown Jackson trying to get Clowney to sign up
NBA
Harden-less Nets still beat Houston, with Irving’s 31
More women are on staffs, so when will somebody make That Decision?
Mr. and Mrs. Westbrook disagrees with ESPN’s Smith
College Football
Pioneer League’s San Diego goes for FCS record
From Clemson to SMU to Arkansas to Auburn, and back to high school: Chad Morris
Around the nation/world