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: The Coaching Carousel keeps a-spinnin’. The latest update is hoops heavy.

In Coverage: After more than a decade, Mercer baseball has released pitching coach Brent Shade

 

SCOREBOARD

Pro

MLB

Washington 5, Atlanta 3

NBA

Atlanta 103, New York 89; Atlanta wins series

 

📰REPORTING 📰SPORTS📰

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Mercer’s Yeager finalist for Brooks Wallace Award

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Knicks can’t handle Young, Hawks, can start vacation now

Hawks back it up

Spike left early, and Reggie dogged him

R.J. Barrett’s pre-game oops guarantee

Hawks notes

Bulldogs are underdogs in WCWS opener (2:30 p.m., ESPN2)

Eighth-inning homer dooms Braves

Braves notes

Column: A full State Farm Arena and nearly full Truist? Thank the vaccine

Georgia doing well amid transfer flurry

DB Branch not with UGA anymore

 

Krzyzewski through in ‘22

One more year for the legend (who is 1-1 against Mercer)

Talk about following somebody big

A year of basketball, preparation

Scheyer’s rise to successor

Column: Scheyer to determine whether it was the program or coach

Column: Choice of successor a surprise, but then again …

 

Baseball

Lou Gehrig Day: he talks about situation, in 1939

Braves know the feeling: Dodgers put up 11 in the first

Four minor-league pitchers suspended for doctoring baseballs

 

NFL

Browns’ Garrett no longer hoopin’

Watkins goes from contender to contender

No more race-norming in brain injury claims

 

NBA/WNBA

Boom in Boston: Ainge is done, replaced by Stevens, who’s done coaching

Column: It was time

Embiid-less Sixer roll past Suns to win series, prepare for Hawks

Players return to sites of recent incidents

Pistons add Beilein in player development spot

Trial in killing of Lorenzen Wright set for 2022

 

College Football

Virginia Tech’s Etute arrested for second-degree murder

 

Golf/Tennis

Williams serves her way to French win

Wie West back to US Open

Nicklaus will talk, but it’s better if he’s asked

Bubba Watson knows the feeling, supports Osaka

 

Sports and racial/social issues

Coaches forced player to eat pork despite religious beliefs

 

Sports and COVID 19

Column: A full State Farm Arena and nearly full Truist? Thank the vaccine

 

Around the nation/world

Buffalo gets first pick in NHL draft

Hard hit amps up Montreal-Winnipeg series

Another Medina Spirit drug test failure, Baffert suspended

MLB scores/games

NBA scores/games

NHL roundup/scoreboard