Thursday's Report: Farriba to ACE with Hatcher; Westside's Cannady, Upson-Lee's Walker, Tattnall's Willis; Braves, Falcons, Ga. Southern, United; MLB, NBA, NASCAR, golf/tennis, NFL, colleges, more
Wednesday'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: Mark Farriba will be back on the sidelines this fall, working for a former crosstown rival now the boss at ACE
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Alumni Update
Walk-on Cannady of Westside enters the transfer portal at UGA
ESPN project Upson-Leeās Walker as top pass rusher
Signings
Tattnallās D.J. Willis signed Wednesday to play baseball at Mississippi Valley State in the Southwest Athletic Conference.
Around/About Georgia
Dodgers win finale to take series over Braves
The latest āabout No. 8ā for Atlanta
BSB: Florida State needs 11 to top Southern
United open US Open Cup with romp
Baseball/MLB
Who had one job? Tell DC of the parachute demo at Nats Park so thereās no chaos
Ohtani overpowers in two-way performance
Camargo helps Phillies stop skid
Column: Bat flips and pitcher struts, on all levels, are OK now
NBA/WNBA
DeRozan puts up 41 to push Bulls into series tie
Boston fans get last laugh as Irving struggles in Nets loss
Embiidās late OT 3 a dagger, Sixers up 3-0
Booker has hamstring, status uncertain
Auto Racing
Column: Busch is Dale, Harvick is miffed, and more
Easter Sunday ratings from Bristol a success
Golf/Tennis
Wimbledon bans players from Russia, Belarus
How Mrs. Spieth helped Mr. Spieth last week
NFL
Browns embrace Watson in offseason program
Barkley back healthy as Giants open minicamp under new boss
Column: Kaepernick dismantles NFLās hypocritical & effective messaging against him
San Franās Samuel officially wants out
Jags cold justifying picking an OT first
College Baseball
Tennesseeās Vitello gets multi-game suspension
College Basketball
M-Villanovaās Wright suddenly resigns, Neptune takes over
Column: Retiring āyoungā makes so much sense, yet few do it
M-Kentucky to get Tshiebwe back
M-Column-Some gripes about Kentucky hoops are off
College Football
UNCās Fox loses appeal, out this season for banned substance
Expansion on hold, CFP settles in
Obit: HOFer Babich played for Schembechler at Miami, Ohio
Sports and social/racial awareness
Louisiana governor says trans girls sports bill āunnecessaryā
Around the nation/world