Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

Scoreboard

Summer Baseball

Coastal

Savannah 12, Macon 0

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 4, NY Mets 3

NBA

Milwaukee 123, Atlanta 112

 

COVERAGE

 Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Richt reveals he has Parkinson’s Disease

Kennesaw State QB fatally shot in Florida

Owls’ Clardy was driving car riddled by bullets

Lopez steps up and leads Bucks past Hawks

Young sits

Bucks do to Hawks what Hawks did to Bucks

Hawks notes & quotes

Freddie had a funky night for Braves in dumping deGrom

Freeman, Acuna All-Star starters

NIL: Tech players get ready

 

NBA/WNBA

Paul always knew he’d make the Finals, at some point

Emotions high for Paul, Williams

Don’t talk smack to Larry Bird

  

Baseball

All-Star game starters

Dodgers to visit White House

 

NFL

Washington gets fined big, no personal punishments

And among others fined for OTA issues …

 

College Baseball

Mississippi State makes good on ex-Bulldog prediction

The Citadel grad leads the MSU Bulldogs

 

College Sports

NIL: Greed vs. student-athletes

NIL: Some players are ready

NIL: Auburn’s Nix gets going

NIL: Kentucky players start

NIL: How much money we talking about?

NIL: Too early to tell so much

NIL: Already making money

NIL: Villanova athletes to be popular?

Bush wants Heisman, stats back

 

Golf/Tennis

Fritz follows surgery with win

Barty avoids upset to reach third round

Ko leads in Texas

DeChambeau switches caddies, quiet after round

Around the nation/world

Olympic sprinter Richardson fails drug test

MLB scores/games

NBA scores/games

NHL roundup/scoreboard