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Monday's Report: Coastal All-Star game; Braves/All-Stars, Hawks; NASCAR/Elliott, MLB/All-Stars, NBA, WNBA, Wimbledon, golf, more

Sunday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.

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MLB

Atlanta 4, Washington 3, 12 inn.

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 Around/About Central Georgia

Area players in Coastal Plain All-Star game

          West Laurens grad Nolan Daniel had the best outing of Central Georgia connections in Sunday’s Coastal Plain League All-Star game in Holly Springs, N.C.

          Savannah’s Daniel, who plays at Purdue, was one of seven pitchers for the West, which beat the East 3-2. He gave up two hits and had a strikeout in an inning of relief.

          Macon’s Mario Minzey went 0 for 2 as a DH and pinch-hitter. Teammate Bryce Matthews was on the roster but didn’t play.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Riley with the walk-off in the 12th

Atlanta makes some All-Star history

Braves get Cano from SD

Contreras brother All-Stars

McMillan on trade: ‘This is a great get for us’


Auto Racing

A Peach State day at Atlanta, with Elliott winning wild one

LaJoie’s late ‘Hail Mary’ bid comes up short

What drivers said

 

Baseball/MLB

Ohtani a 2-way All-Star again; full rosters out

Full rosters

Freeman gets four hits as Dodgers storm back

Orioles among MLB’s hot teams

Wild story how Reds catcher almost missed his MLB return

‘Bull Durham’ has a behind-the-scenes book

Basketball/NBA/WNBA

Griner dominates All-Star game from afar

‘It’s all of us’

NBA legends revisit starting retired players association

Golf

Schauffele takes Scottish for second straight win

Tennis

Djokovic tops Kyrgios for seventh Wimby title

Kyrgios showed he belonged on Slam stage

And he showed some more, upset with fan

Then, about wearing white …

Russia claims credit for Rybakina

She knows this will be a difficult spotlight

Football/NFL/USFL

Pro Bowl OL arrested at airport on concealed weapons charge

Condi Rice still stung at Cleveland firing Paul Brown … in 1963

College Sports

Column: Mega conferences a mega mistake, and fans will suffer

UK’s Stoops thinks NIL collectives are illegal, shares stories

Charlotte keeping an eye on ACC’s next move

Happy birthday, Urban Meyer!

Around the nation/world

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games