Friday's Report: Scoreboard; Braves, UGA, Falcons, Tech; NFL, MLB, college, NBA/WNBA, golf, NASCAR
In Coverage: Friday night’s Central Georgia football scouting reports; Maxwell Ratings predictions, Central Georgia composite rankings, The Sports Report predictions
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High School
🏈🏈🏈Football🏈🏈🏈
Northeast 42, Kendrick 6
Rutland def. Jordan by forfeit
Spencer 50, Southwest 16
🏈🏈🏈Flag football🏈🏈🏈
Colquitt Conty 20, Veterans 0; Colquitt County 18, Warner Robins 0
Northside 6, Macon County 0; Northside 20, Dougherty 6
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
Gatewood 3, Brentwood 0
Fullington 14, Twiggs 0
Glascock County 16, Wilkinson County 0
GMC 12, Johnson County 0
Griffin 15, Howard 3
The Bears marched out to a 13-3 lead after three en route to eliminating the Huskies (10-13/5-7) from the postseason. Nakeria Mallory went 2 for 2 for Howard.
Houston County 4, Thomas County Central 1; Houston County 17,Thomas County Central 2
The Bears rolled through Region 1-6A with a 15-0 record, going undefeated in region play for the second straight year.
Jackson 5, Peach County 0
Jasper County 8, Oglethorpe County 3
Northside 13, Rutland 5
Perry 14, Baldwin 0
Taylor County 9, Schley County 0
Tiftarea 6, Windsor 0
Union Grove 8, Jones County 7
Veterans 9, Northside 1; Veterans 12, Northside 6
Westfield 10, Strong Rock 2
The multi-defending state champs racked up their latest district/region title.
West Laurens 14, Spalding 0
🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐
ACE 2, Rutland 0; ACE 2, Southwest 0
College
⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
W-Mercer 2, VMI 0
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Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Atlanta may break out some unfamiliar arms
Column-Beware, Braves, the Phillies are back and rolling
Stoops compares ‘Absolute freak’ Brock Bowers to Michael Jordan
Milton having good week, likely to play vs. Kentucky
Ridder facing questions about job security in test against Stroud, Texans
Breaking news: Falcons are off to sluggish starts (and somebody studied it)
Opinion: Smith should stop making excuses for Ridder
No. 17 Miami’s rolling offense facing a Georgia Tech defense coming off coordinator shakeup
Baseball/MLB
Young Marlins flop against Phillies in sweep
Takeaways from the wild-card sweeps
Orioles to play at 1 p.m. Saturday, well before Billy Joel & Stevie Nicks play concert next door
GM Preller says Melvin will be back as manager of the underwhelming Padres
Eppler quits as Mets GM, three days after Stearns was hired above him
Carter keeps getting on base for Rangers. Bochy wonders if the kid even realizes he’s in majors
College football - salaries
Why football is king, even at basketball blue bloods
As realignment scrambles college sports, some football coaches are due raises. Big ones.
How many SEC coaches make at least $9 mil?
South Carolina’s Beamer in top 25
Big Ten football coach 2023 buyout rankings: Franklin, Rhule lead way in conference
Who’s the most overpaid (led by SEC)?
College Football/SEC/ACC
Napier to remain play-caller amid sluggish start, says offense is 'always being evaluated'
Arnett on Tide D: ‘They don’t have a weakness’
Three things that might be on Freeze’s bye week ‘honey-do’ list
Saban reveals message to Jalen Milroe before Alabama-Texas A&M homecoming
Fisher explains how Alabama QB Milroe is getting ‘better and better’
From Australia to Tallahassee, FSU’s P making a difference
Behind Klubnik’s turnaround at Clemson
College Football/South (SEC/ACC states)
Sources: UCF's Malzahn gets extension, raise
College Football
Column-Thanks to split final Red River Rivalry is a sad one
'Mighty Oregon' throwback football uniforms are head-turning
Fired Northwestern coach Fitzgerald is suing school for $130M for wrongful termination
Big Ten releases five years of conference schedules
Was news to Buckeyes that Notre Dame was one short on game-winner
Sooners QB Gabriel leads No. 12 Oklahoma into annual grudge match with No. 3 Texas in Dallas
Nebraska and Illinois each look for first Big Ten win on Friday night
Unbeaten Maryland takes another shot at the Big Ten’s elite this weekend at No. 4 Ohio State
College Football/Thursday night
Singleton breaks up 2 passes in end zone to save Liberty’s win
Reed to Corley for 3 long TDs, Western Kentucky holds off Louisiana Tech
NFL/USFL/XFL/Football
Legendary Chicago LB Butkus dies at 80
Field, Moore lead Bears to romp of Washington
Billionaire owner Khan has the Jaguars reaching new heights after some dreadful lows
Favre reportedly set to testify in welfare fraud suit
Mahomes: ‘I just haven’t played very good’ amid 3-1 start to season
Browns’ running game spinning its wheels since losing star Chubb to season-ending knee injury
Healthy Taylor happy to be back on the Colts practice field
Kelce says NFL TV coverage is ‘overdoing it’ with Swift during games
Steelers RB Harris puts onus on players, not the coaches, after ‘soft’ performance
McCaffrey trade paying big dividends for the 49ers a year later
Burrow says Sunday’s game at Arizona is a must-win for 1-3 Cincinnati
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Holiday lands in Boston, bringing ‘electricity’ to practice and championship goals
WNBA first: Hammon, Brondello make history as ex-players coaching teams in the Finals
Former Aces’ player Hamby files discrimination complaint against team, WNBA
Golf
Uihlein, Soderberg and Arnaus share lead at Dunhill Links Championship as Ryder Cup winners return
Auto Racing
NASCAR odds: Reddick enters Charlotte Roval two points outside top 8
Deegan gets promotion to NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series for 2024
High Schools/Youths
Man flashes gun at son’s game amid “my son’s better” argument
Scoreboards