Friday's Report: Scoreboard; Mercer & Georgia College ⚾, Mercer 🏀; Falcons, UGA, Braves; NFL/playoffs/moves, NBA/Kobe, college f/Ed Reed/SEC, colleges, golf, Australian Open,

Friday's Report: Scoreboard; Mercer  & Georgia College ⚾, Mercer 🏀; Falcons, UGA, Braves; NFL/playoffs/moves, NBA/Kobe, college f/Ed Reed/SEC, colleges, golf, Australian Open,

Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

High School

Basketball

Girls

Crisp 51, Twiggs 38
Piedmont 53, Central Georgia Arts 21

Boys

Twiggs 68, Crisp 60

College

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(Stories or boxes)

M-App State 71, Georgia State 59
W-Georgia 62, Missouri 51
W-Georgia State 64, App State 56
W-Georgia Tech 85, Clemson 74
W-Louisiana-Lafayette 68, Georgia Southern 58

M-Kennesaw State 84, Austin Peay 57
M-Texas State 70, Georgia State 67
W-Wofford 76, Mercer 71

 

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Honor Roll

Mercer baseball trio on an all-conference team

 

Around/About Central Georgia

WBKB-Houpt goes off for 31, but Wofford edges Mercer

BSB-Georgia College adds GC alum to staff

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Falcons have a long-term plan for rookie Malone

What does UGA’s scholarship breakdown look like?

Braves lose VP/scouting Brown to Astros

 

Football/NFL/USFL

Mahomes the old man among the final QBs

Column-Bengals can beat Chiefs a fourth straight time, and will

Remaining head coaches are offensive

Gay unimpressed with Cincy offense

Panthers pick Reich over Wilks in notable decision

O’Brien to Patriots is official

Quinn to stay in Dallas amid major shuffling; McCarthy to match Landry’s tenure?

Allen calls Buffalo’s season ‘null and void’

Ex-Detroit, Liberty LB Lemonier dead at 25

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Sports world remembers Bryant, others on tragedy anniversary

Pistons get first win in Brooklyn in nearly five years

Mavs win after Doncic gets hurt

Roundup

James, Giannis All-Star captains

College Football

Column-Reed missed mark & mission, didn’t know what he was getting into

Early SEC power rankings: Who’s after No. 1?

Column-Freeze delivers on early promise

College Sports

NCAA loses $59 mil for ’22, still doing OK

Vols extend AD White’s contract

Florida State to retire Posey’s No. 8 in March

Ohio State sets record with nearly $252 mil in revenue

College Basketball

Obit-Billy Packer was a voice of the game for decades

M-Auburn’s home winning streak is over, no pouting allowed

W-UConn too much for Lady Vols in renewed rivalry

W-Auriemma misses the old UConn-Tennessee battles

W-No. 7 Notre Dame dominates No. 24 Florida State

M-No. 1 Purdue holds off Michigan

W-Top 25 roundup

Golf

Ryder extends lead at Farmers

Reed-‘not like I tried to assassinate Rory McIlroy’

NFL legend Lott helps aspiring pro make PGA Tour debut

Tennis

Paul’s run helps make US men relevant again

Tsitsipas battles to first Australian Open final

Rybakina vs. Sabalenka in women’s finale

Lookahead-Paul vs. Dojo in semifinals, more

Scoreboards

NFL games/scores

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games