Sunday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Georgia Southern fires Lunsford; Falcons win, Braves; HS games/violence; college FB, MLB, Ryder Cup, NFL, NASCAR, golf

Sunday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Georgia Southern fires Lunsford; Falcons win, Braves; HS games/violence; college FB, MLB, Ryder Cup, NFL, NASCAR, golf

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 Central Georgia high school football schedule; Monday Morning Quarterback

Scoreboard
College
Soccer
W-Mercer 0, ETSU 0
Pro
MLB
Atlanta 4, San Diego 3
NFL
Atlanta 17, New York Giants 14

 

Georgia State AD Cobb to visit Macon TD Club

          Georgia State athletics director Charlie Cobb is Monday’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.

          The program begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth on Pierce Ave. Cost is $30 for non-members.

          Central and Covenant are this week’s high schools.

          Cobb is a Columbia, S.C. native who played football at NC State, getting his business degree in 1990. The center made second-team All-ACC and all-academic as a senior and earned the ACC’s Jim Tatum award for senior player with the highest GPA.

          Currently a member of the College Football Playoff Management Committee, Cobb was hired at Georgia State in 2014 and has sparked major academic progress inside the athletics department as well as new and upgraded facilities.

          Most notable is the repurposing of old Turner Field into a football stadium more fitting the Panthers’ program than playing at the old Georgia Dome. Now, that entire area is undergoing growth with the eventual completion of new baseball, softball, and soccer facilities as well as athletics offices.

          Cobb spent nine years as athletics director at Appalachian State after six years with the Atlanta Sports Council Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl and Georgia Dome.

          His wife Lindsay was an All-ACC keeper at NC State and is the head soccer coach at Whitefield Academy.

          Maconite and Mount de Sales grad Chris Hatcher of Samford is next week’s speaker.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Georgia Southern pulls the plug on Lunsford

Falcons spoil Eli’s day, top Giants

What the impact of the win might have

Pitts was a key

Braves finish off sweep of Padres

It’s a top-10 game in Athens

Alabama HS stopped after gunfire outside stadium

Potential gang issues leads to cancellation of Treutlen-Johnson County

  

Baseball

Pirates dent Phillies’ hopes with shutout

Brewers clinch NL Central, doom Mets to losing record

Milwaukee bids farewell to Braun

Fire alarm interrupts Yanks and Sox

 

College Football/South

Auburn fires receivers coach

Column: At least we know Harsin has guts

Replay review helped Tigers

Arkansas moves into AP top 10

Clemson step back shouldn’t be surprising

Column: NC State win brings in Atlanta anarchy

Vols looked better against Gators than in awhile

Alabama run game got going

Louisiana-Monroe QB, son of Rodriguez, in ICU

Clemson loses DT for season, RB for a month

 

College Football

Utah player killed in house party shooting

What’s up with such early kickoffs?

Weurffel supports NIL, but …

Column: UNC, the Milli Vanilli of college football

SMU’s Dykes apologizes to TCU

Ohio State dismisses grumpy LB

Week 4 takeaways

AP Top 25

Coaches Top 25

NFL

Pick-6 helps doom Jacksonville

Stafford, Rams out-offense Brady and Bucs

Turnover-prone Chiefs fall to Chargers

Rodgers leads Packers to last-second FG win

KC’s Reid leaves Arrowhead in ambulance

Column: Chiefs now look mighty vulnerable

Saints, Winston, D hammer New England in Foxborough

Browns batter Fields and Bears

Column: Nagy’s time coming to an end after ineptness?

Tannehill throws for three in Titans win

Burrow, Bengals bop Steelers

Column: Pathetic day for proud franchise

FG lifts Raider to OT win over Miami

Ford Family booed during Calvin Johnson ring ceremony

NFL-record field goal lifts Ravens over Lions

Ref botch delay call in Lions’ long-field goal loss

 

Auto Racing

Hamlin holds off Elliott for first Vegas NASCAR win

 

Golf/Tennis

Americans win Ryder in rout

Brooks and Bryson make nice

McIlroy breaks down afterward

Hatoaka wins NW Arkansas by a shot

Federer taking time in return

 

NBA/WNBA

 WNBA playoffs

 

Around the nation/world

MLB scores/games

College football scores/games

NFL scores/games