Monday's Report: Schlabach at TD Club; Falcons, Braves, Tech, UGA; college FB, NFL, MLB, WNBA, NASCAR, golf
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Around/About Central Georgia
ESPN’s Schlabach visiting Macon Touchdown Club
Author and longtime ESPN writer Mark Schlabach is the guest speaker Monday night at the Macon Touchdown Club.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Admission for non-members is $30. This is the final meeting of the season, with the jamboree and Georgia head coach Kirby Smart in February.
Schlabach is a Norcross and Georgia graduate, whose journalism career began at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where his beats included UGA, the SEC, then the NFL and then NASCAR. He moved on to the Washington Post and covered college football and basketball, and boxing.
He joined ESPN in July 2006. In the past decade plus, he has authored or co-authored books on Bobby Bowden, John Heisman, and several on the Duck Dynasty family, with a number of titles making the New York Times best-seller list, and has been one of ESPN’s primary investigative reporters.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Falcons dig hole, storm back, rally falls short
(Preseason) Column: Falcons may not be good, but they’ll be interesting
Sanchez said what during Rams-Falcons game?
Braves to visit the White House soon
Albies avoids surgery, but done for regular season
Smith not happy with lost shutout
Bulldogs easily repeat as No. 1 in writers poll
Tech’s Collins: “It all falls on me”
Baseball/MLB
DeGrom whiffs 13 in five innings, Mets sweep
Valdez has record 25th quality start
College Football/South
Why did Bigsby get only 11 touches?
Column: Not enough Fs to go around for Auburn grades
How rock-bottom was it for South Carolina?
Clemson riding a roller coaster
Saban’s view on the toughest calls
Florida-USF felt like a loss for both teams
College Football
Nebraska cans defensive coordinator
Some Nebraska fans are OK with Urban
Oregon apologizes for profane anti-Mormon chant
Football/NFL/USFL
Brady’s temper flares as Bucs snap streak vs. Saints
Flacco leads Jets to stunning comeback
Tua, Dolphins stun Ravens with comeback
Jackson effort wasted in brutal loss to Miami
Patriots rely on defense to edge Steelers
Jimmy G comes off bench, leads San Fran to win
Seahawks fall flat, Niners lose Lance for the season
59-yard fumble return in OT lifts Cards, stuns Raiders
Browns collapse in final minutes, are apologetic
Colts shut out by Jags, Ryan struggles, in Jacksonville visit
Giants 2-0 for first time in six years
NFL Sunday Ticket has problems, again
Auto Racing
NASCAR faces questions after Bristol bash
Golf
Roundup: Homa a surprise winner at Napa
Donald did something new, led to a triple bogey
Basketball/NBA/WNBA
Las Vegas wins first WNBA title
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