Friday's Report: Bacon lose; Braves, Dream, Hawks, Falcons; College FB shakeup; NBA, MLB, golf, tennis, colleges, more
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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: New Georgia College men’s hoops boss Aquino talks about home
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Southern Cal, UCLA to the Big Ten
From The Coast to middle America?
A look at the TV markets, and SEC
Column: This makes sense after outgrowing Pac-12
What the Trojans, Bruins bring
Around/About Central Georgia
Forest City hammers Macon
The Bacon managed as many errors as hits – three – in losing 13-1 at Forest City.
Macon fell to 12-15, Forest City improved to 12-16.
Cam Fisher had five hits, three runs, and four RBI for Forest City, which had 19 hits.
Macon hosts Savannah on Friday, visits Florence and Lexington County, and hosts Savannah on Monday.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Phillies’ bats awaken to thump Atlanta
Acuna among All-Star starters, Swanson and Duvall do well
Braves PA announcer dies in sleep
Braves fostering ‘false narrative’ about Freeman?
Murray wanted out of San Antonio regardless
There’s still a market for Collins, but …
Hayes leads Dream over New York
Claude Humphrey was larger than life
Atlanta’s Smith believes in Zaccheaus
Baseball/MLB
Freeman-gate continues: Gottlieb, tweet, lawsuits, allegations
Backup catcher belts three homers for Pirates
Tucker tries to steal home during PitchCom malfunction
Cubs get a slam, 6 RBI from Wisdom
Oakland can progress toward $12 billion plan
Scherzer, deGrom take next steps to rejoin Mets
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Beal – Beal – gets five years, 251 million
Gallinari could be Boston-bound, waived by Spurs
Charlotte F Bridges arrested on domestic violence charge
Finals viewership up 24 percent
Football/NFL/USFL
Football hero’s killer can’t be retried for murder
Tennis
Three top-20 men’s seeds out with COVID
Boulter rebounds from losing grandmother
Golf
Controversy inspires yawns in Pacific Northwest: they have a tournament
Johnson: connect the dots about the Ryder Cup rosters
LIV players defend PGA grievances
Members of 9/11 Justice Group would like to talk
College Baseball
‘It’s so surreal’ says the veteran boss
College Basketball
Longtime NBA guard Strickland takes over at LIU
College Football/South
Hockey
Colorado celebrates with a parade
Around the nation/world