Monday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Houston County's Steiner, Westside's Kareem Jackson; UGA/COVID, Braves/Morton, Tech/Northern Illinois, college FB, NFL, US Open, soccer

Monday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Houston County's Steiner, Westside's Kareem Jackson; UGA/COVID, Braves/Morton, Tech/Northern Illinois, college FB, NFL, US Open, soccer

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

Scoreboard
College
Soccer
W-Georgia College 2, Anderson 1
W-Middle Georgia State 1, Warner 0

Alumni Update/Honor Roll
Houston County’s Steiner takes POW award at Auburn

            Former Houston County standout Wesley Steiner is Auburn’s special teams player of the week for his play in the Tigers’ 60-10 rout of Akron.

          The 6-0, 229-pound junior had two tackles Saturday, though Auburn’s stats didn’t designated if they were on defense or special teams. Steiner played in nine games last year and recorded three tackles.

          Former Dublin star Romello Height had three tackles.

Kareem Jackson (Westside) elected a captain for Broncos

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Smart worried about COVID spike on team

Kirby talks (video)

Bulldog notebook

UGA offense “didn’t play to our standard’

Braves sign Morton to big bucks

Northern Illinois head coach on how NIU beat Tech

Is Falcons O-line ready? (and notes)

 

College Football

Kiffin-less Mississippi rolls past Louisville

Guarantee games aren’t guaranteed, but pay off for the underdogs

Edsall, UConn’s parting of ways is now, not end of season
UCLA keeps gloating at Orgeron’s ‘sissy blue’ fashion observation

Support huge for FSU’s Milton, but mom was worried

No upset victim has it worse than Washington

Michigan loses top WR

And Minnesota’s top RB is out

And Clemson’s Zanders is gone for the year

Column: Surviving the first week of player pay

 

Baseball

Rays rally from six down, beat Boston in wild extra-inning game

Cardinals get completely Scherzered

 

NFL

Peter King: The Super Bowl will pit …(and other predictions)

Secondary now a strength for Denver

 

College Sports

Anxiety hitting Big 12 towns

 

Auto Racing

Headaches galore for contenders in NASCAR playoffs

 

Golf/Tennis

Rogers ready for social media abuse after loss

Djokovic ends American’s hope, closer to Slam

 

Around the nation/world

Explaining the chaos in Argentina over quarantine spat

Two draws puts pressure on US men’s soccer team

Judge blocks Arizona betting law

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games