Sunday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.

 

In Coverage: This week’s high school football schedule, along with recent changes; Coming: Monday Afternoon Quarterback, with polls and Loughdmouthings, and more

 

Scoreboard
College
Golf
M-Golfweek Fall Challenge, first round, Mercer, first

Soccer
M-Davidson 2, Mercer 1
W-Georgia Southern 1, Mercer 0
W-West Georgia 2, Georgia College 1
Volleyball
FVSU 3, Paine 0; Edward Waters 3, FVSU 0
Pro
MLB
Atlanta 5, Miami 3

NFL
Philadelphia 32, Atlanta 6

Alumni Update

Taylor County’s Dixon in a Clemson doghouse?

 

Around/About Georgia

New era in Philly thumps new era in Atlanta

Gut reactions from Eagles-Falcons

Column: Smith takes the blame, but …

Column: Accountability as a priority will only increase

Eagles kept O scheme quiet in preseason, worked

Freeman belts 30th HR on 32nd birthday to lead Braves

Social media goes fairly crazy over Bombs-Away Bennett

‘Stet has lived the life of a college athlete to the fullest’

UAB, Clark knew what Bennett could do, were surprised at schemes

Domination was just what Georgia Tech needed

 

Baseball

Scherzer gets 3,000th strikeout, goes five outs from a perfect game

Lindor’s three homers lift Mets past reeling Yankees

Things got frisky

Lauer takes no-hitter into sixth of Brewers’ rout

 

College Football/South

Seminoles searching

Florida sticking with Jones

Penn State crowd wants Auburn

And it’ll get ‘Gameday’, too

 

College Football

AP Top 25

Coaches Top 25

Why didn’t FSU play prevent defense at the end?

Column: Time to fire USC’s Helton is now

Ohio State doomed after drum major falls down?

Buckeyes need to work on defense

NFL

Misplaces Saints and Winston smash Packers

Winston: ‘That was for the city’

Taylor and Texans dump Lawrence and Jags

Column: Don’t feel bad for Jags and Urban

Darnold and D leads Panthers over Jets

Steelers rally to top Bills

Herbert goes for 337 to lead Chargers

49ers lead by 28, win by eight

Chiefs rally to nip Browns

Jones sharp, but Tua leads Dolphins past Patriots

Bridgewater solid in Broncos debut

Stafford dynamic in LA debut

 

Auto Racing

Gibbs team asserting itself early in playoffs

 

Golf/Tennis

Stunner: Djokovic goes down in straight sets to Medvedev, relieved

Column: Pressure for Dojo was massive

Britain savors new star in Raducanu

 

Around the nation/world

MLB scores/games

College football scores/games

NFL scores/games