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

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-Leeā€™s Walker as top pass rusher

 

Signings

          Tattnallā€™s 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

Rough trip, no worries

The latest ā€œabout 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 thereā€™s no chaos

Ohtani overpowers in two-way performance

Camargo helps Phillies stop skid

Cabrera gets up to 2,999 hits

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

Embiidā€™s 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 NFLā€™s hypocritical & effective messaging against him

San Franā€™s Samuel officially wants out

Jags cold justifying picking an OT first

College Baseball

Tennesseeā€™s Vitello gets multi-game suspension

And makes the most of it

College Basketball

M-Villanovaā€™s Wright suddenly resigns, Neptune takes over

Column: Retiring ā€˜youngā€™ makes so much sense, yet few do it

M-Kentucky to get Tshiebwe back

M-Kā€™s grandson leaving Duke

M-Column-Some gripes about Kentucky hoops are off

College Football

UNCā€™s 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 ā€˜unnecessaryā€™

Around the nation/world

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB games/scores