Friday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; MLB All-Star Game & Atlanta; Mercer, Mayhem; Braves, Hawks, colleges; NCAA Tournaments; more
Friday’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: Central Georgia’s only Scoreboard
MLB + Atlanta + All-Star Game + voting legislation = tumult
MLB pulls All-Star game, draft from Atlanta
Freeman: host the game and use it as a platform
Column: Braves’ statement stunning, puts them on wrong side of history
And not many toward the middle
A big loss for the state that happened very quickly: how could they not see this coming?
NBA coaches concur with decision
Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer headed to first volleyball conference championship match
Knoxville tops Macon to win 12th straight at home
No. 17 Furman visits Mercer, Five Star Stadium
Around/About Georgia
Where is Freeman’s future? In Atlanta? Because, you know …
UGA’s Taylor gets extension through 2027
Stricklin returns, Bulldogs top Gamecocks
UGA punter adjusting: he’s from Australia
Tech QB Sims progress pleases OC
About the Falcons’ new regime …
Sports and COVID-19
Sports and social/racial awareness
Column: Those protesting, where people don’t want protests, deserve praise, like at ETSU
Behind the ‘Eyes of Texas’ controversy
Men’s NCAA Tournament
Two players from Baylor’s last Final Four team – in 1950 –are watching
Meet Hap and Mack, the Cronin boys
Sampson’s path has included racism and battling the KKK: “We survived. We achieved”
Houston’s Jarreau has a guardian angel, childhood friend who just died
Women’s NCAA Tournament
Stanford survives two bunny misses to nip South Carolina
Arizona controls UConn for first trip to final
South Carolina, Stanford is the best of women’s sports
Huskies underestimated the Wildcats
College Basketball
Concierge-type help aids tournament teams in the bubble
Survey: ADs worried about women’s sports
Woodson convinces key Hoosier to stay
Hired: Skip Prosser’s son at Winthrop
Hired: Sister Jean’s favorite coach is moving to Oklahoma
NBA
Durant fined for social media language
Baseball
Bauer loses no-hit bid – and shutout – in the seventh
College Sports
Emmert, athletes have a conversation, plan for more
NFL
Houston police now investigating Deshaun Watson
Around the nation/world
Tech alum Tringale leads Valero