Friday's Report: Scoreboard; Mayhem win, obit-Georgia College's first AD, FVSU ranking; CFP, college F & B, NFL, soccer, NBA, MLB Issues with Hawks, Young?, UGA, Tech, Falcons,

Friday's Report: Scoreboard; Mayhem win, obit-Georgia College's first AD, FVSU ranking; CFP, college F &  B, NFL, soccer, NBA, MLB Issues with Hawks, Young?, UGA, Tech, Falcons,

Thursday'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:   the college football bowl schedule/results/Central Georgians

 

High School

Basketball

Girls

Taylor County 58, Charlton County 53

Upson-Lee 66, Spalding 30

Boys

Salem 56, Jasper County 52 Pro

SPHL

Macon 4, Birmingham 2 

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Honor Roll/Alumni Update

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Georgia College’s first athletics director dies, at 95

FVSU finishes No. 4 in HBCU Division II poll

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Are the Hawks battling Young-related attitude issues?

Georgia adds WRs from SEC rivals

Tech finalizes football strength staff

What Ridder learned

Ravens to be without Jackson for Atlanta visit

Portal-bound Arik Gilbert, we hardly knew ye

MBKB-Georgia F enters portal

Braves get IF from Orioles for cash

 

College Football Playoffs

Michigan’s Oluwatimi endured heavy heart in standout year

Herbstreit on Smart’s edge

Georgia D braces for big test from Stroud, Buckeyes

College Football/Southeast

Column: Status as captain affects opt-out decisions at Bama

Ex-Wisconsin QB headed to Florida

Column: Grading curve is over for Napier

College Football

Donor paying $24 mil toward Tucker’s huge salary, more on money

Column: Signing Day proves NIL didn’t ruin the game

College Basketball

M-Kaufman-Renn leads No. 1 Purdue past New Orleans

M-South Carolina hot from deep, beats WKU

M-Missouri upsets No. 16 Illinois

College Sports

Will Gonzaga make the Power-5 move?

Mississippi hires former Auburn AD Greene

Football/NFL/USFL

In Franco, the Steelers found a hero, and a Way

‘There’s a huge hole in Pittsburgh’

Bradshaw shares favorite Franco story

Jags win again, Jets bench Wilson again

Sunday Ticket heading to YouTube

Hurts likely out for Dallas game

Brady suddenly turning it over

Reich texts Cousins after record comeback, hopes he uses it as inspiration

Buffalo’s Diggs surprised young fan who’s father died with swag in emotional exchange

Eagles gift cheesesteaks to Jags for beating Cowboys

Minnesota’s Jefferson unfazed by hits as big games pile up

Is Thibodeaux the next LT?

Soccer                                                                      

Qatar to remove or repurpose most Cup stadiums

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Mitchell was drained by off-court racial issues in Utah

Roundup

Baseball/MLB

Mets’ luxury tax penalties > 10 MLB payrolls

Bauer reinstated by independent arbitrator

Scoreboards

NFL games/scores

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games