Sunday's Report: Mary Persons' Holden, Mercer, Georgia College, FVSU, CGTC; Falcons, UGA, state hoops, Hawks; NFL/playoffs, NBA, college 🏈&🏀, Australian Open, golf

Sunday's Report: Mary Persons' Holden, Mercer, Georgia College, FVSU, CGTC; Falcons, UGA, state hoops, Hawks; NFL/playoffs, NBA, college 🏈&🏀, Australian Open, golf

Saturday'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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Alumni Update

Triple-double by Mary Persons’ Holden lifts Towson

 

Around/about Central Georgia

MBKB-Double-doubles lead Mercer to road win

WBKB-Mercer pulls away at home

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Will Falcons add to secondary and Terrell?

Troy Andersen went from consistent to productive for Atlanta

Depth a strength for Georgia baseball

Eight of Pro Football Focus’ top 101 college players: Bulldogs

McIntosh ready to shine at Senior Bowl in deep backfield

MBKB-Tech loses in historic fashion to Duke

MBKB-Georgia rallies, tops S.C. in OT

MBKB-Kennesaw State gets first W over Lipscomb since 2016

Leonard hits 32 to lead Clippers past Hawks

 

Football/NFL/USFL/CFL

Hamlin thankful in first public words

Vegas believes some classics may await

The non-QB X-factors

Cincinnati, KC mayors in funky Twitter beef

49ers stockpiling picks courtesy of diversity progress

A Philly reunion for Ryans

Pro writers pick Mahomes, Jefferson, Bosa as top players

College Football/Southeast

Revisiting Bear Bryant, 40 years after his death

Bethune-Cookman AD Theus on the Reed rants, saga: ‘let us down’

College Football

Ohio State adds former LB standout Laurinaitis as GA

College Basketball

M-Oklahoma flattens No. 2 Alabama

W-Another Clark double-double leads Iowa

M-Kansas holds off Kentucky

M-Hofstra ends No. 18 Charleston’s 20-game streak

M-Houston rallies past Cincinnati

M-Tennessee tops Texas

M-Nation’s longest winning streak is now Florida Atlantic’s

W-Middle Tennessee State wins 16th straight

M-Arkansas edged by No. 17 Baylor

Packer: ‘often wrong, but never in doubt’ in leaving legacy

M-Clemson’s Galloway out indefinitely after, well, delicate procedure

NBA/Basketball/WNBA

Roundup

W-Candace Parker to join Las Vegas

Column-Time to rethink All-Star voting?

Tennis

Sabalenka wins first Slam title at Australian

Analysis-Champ Sabalenka rewarded serve, belief

Djokovic thwarted Paul’s game plan

Golf

Homa comes back to win Farmers by two

Reed, McIlroy trail leaders at Dubai

High Schools

Minneosta team refuses to play after coach who used slur reinstated

Around the nation/world

Shiffrin wins slalom, within 1 win of World Cup record

Art Collector rolls to Pegasus World Cup win

Three fights in 16 seconds with Flyers, Wild

 

Scoreboards

NFL scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games