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Friday's News ' Notes: Scoreboard; Georgia College, Fort Valley State, Mercer; Bama-UGA; Falcons, Tech; college FB/BKB, NFL, WNBA, golf, tennis, more

Friday’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: Stratford goes down the hall for a new football coach

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Alabama vs. Georgia

Ticket prices are dropping

Jones County grad Hartley getting props for Bowers’ emergence

Warm welcome in ice-cold Indy

Saban in good spirits

Does Alabama have a weakness?

The ol’ Ball Coach likes the Dawgs

No Metchie, but Williams is mighty good

Column: Who can stop SEC from swallowing the game?

Rematch blues: Bama tries to buck history in title game

Relentless recruiting equals all-star teams

Column: Decades of frustration mounting, but no excuses, should end Monday

70 or not, Saban still chews assistant butt

Honor Roll

VB: Georgia College puts seven on academic team

Around/About Central Georgia

FVSU returns to fanless for basketball

Mercer schedule update

          Mercer’s women host Chattanooga at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The men are at Furman at 4 p.m.

          The men’s road game with The Citadel has been rescheduled for Jan. 17. The women’s home game with ETSU has moved to Jan. 17.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

The dinosaur and unicorn: Atlanta’s Pitts and Smith

Pees on entitled young coaches, computers, communication

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MBKB: Tech hopes to find footing against Notre Dame

Lakers pull away from Hawks

Sports and COVID

College basketball teams have to re-work on conditioning

College Football/South

UNC lets defensive assistants go

Kiffin, Freeze get into a fishin’ feud

College Football

Hawaii Senate getting involved with Hawaii program under Graham

Eastern Michigan alum Batch offers Williams a million

Column: College football needs a peacemaker for playoff expansion

Oregon State busts up west side of stadium

Alabama’s O’Brien: Portal is like free agency without rules

Kansas State promotes Klein to OC

Moving: Texas QB heading to Nebraska

College Basketball

W-Arizona returns after three weeks off with a win

W-Florida loses guard to shin injury

College Sports

Florida State’s Howell wins another Hermann Trophy

Murray State changing Valleys, from Ohio to Missouri

NFL/Football

Column: Ding dong, the Wonderlic is almost dead

Jags’ game sponsor wants out, worried about Clown Bowl Sunday

Rodgers responds to he’ll-boycott-the-SB story

USFL hires some head coaches

O’Brien among those set for Jacksonville interview

Column: Tired of hearing from Antonio Brown’s enablers

Baltimore’s Jackson out for fourth straight game

Column: How selfishness of Wentz, Cousins, and Brown helps the Eagles

Brown: Tom Brady is Tampa Bay’s GM

NBA/WNBA

Sue Bird coming back for another year

Golf/Tennis

Are politics involved in Djokovic detention?

Smith recovers for 3-shot lead at Kapalua

Osaka withdraws from Melbourne tourney, plans on Aussie Open

Around the nation/world           

NFL scores/games

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

Men’s college basketball

Women’s college basketball