Friday's Report: FVSU, Mercer academics; Braves/Strider, Mark Richt, Falcons; MLB, Wimbledon, golf, NASCAR/Atlanta, NHL, more
Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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MLB
St. Louis 3, Atlanta 2, 11 inn.
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College Realignment
Column: Every college football fan should be pulling for the Pac-12
Louisville AD still believes in ACC
Is more expansion the right thing for the SEC?
Column: So, here’s what every league should do
Column: East isn’t East, West isn’t West, as sports evolve
South Carolina might take a hit amid super-conference rebuild
ACC: from elite success to uncertain future
Ranking/analyzing the ACC desirables
Did Larry Scott kill the Pac-12?
ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 similar, but one has major image problem
Around/About Central Georgia
FVSU puts nine on SIAC All-Academic, 66 on Commissioner’s list
Mercer women’s golf has four on All-American Scholar Team
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Strider stellar, but Cards get extra-inning win
Richt back on sideline for all-star game
Atlanta LB coach is pretty happy despite questions
Baseball/MLB
Hall powers Phillies past Nats
Sale acted ‘like an idiot’ aaaand blames cameras, notes ‘pressure’
Mets’ Bassitt says MLB should stop COVID testing
Padres’ Profar collapses after collision
Auto Racing
Tennis
No surprise: Nadal withdraws from Wimbledon
Jabeur first woman from Africa in Slam final
Wimbledon goes through how many balls a year?
Players asked to not max out their restaurant budget
Golf
Tringale off to record start at Scottish
Football/NFL/USFL
Raiders hire first Black woman as team president in NFL
NFL starting a push for flag football in the Olympics
Snyder, House committee at odds
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Griner pleads guilty in Russia
Doesn’t mean what you think it does
College Football/South
How’d Auburn do portal-wise in the offseason?
College Sports
Rutgers isn’t making money, but it’s sure spending it
Hockey
New Jersey names its first female assistant GM, sixth in the NHL
Kings hire female former goaltender as ops and prospect adviser
Montreal takes Slafkovsky with top pick
Around the nation/world