Monday's Report: Falcons, UGA, Tech; Super Bowl; college sports/SEC, college 🏈 (OU/Texas)🏀 (SC-LSU, Purdue), NFL, NBA, tennis, golf, NASCAR
News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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College
🏀 🏀 🏀Basketball 🏀 🏀 🏀
W-Pitt 85, Georgia Tech 79, 2 OT
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
Hampton 10, Mercer 0; Florida A&M 5, Mercer 1
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Super Bowl
Hurts’ brilliant effort falls short
Peach State connections
Mary Persons grad Malik Herring was active entering Super Bowl weekend, but was listed as a healthy inactive and didn’t play in the game.
Other Georgia high school connections: Harrison Butker (Westminster/Georgia Tech) kicked the game-winning field goal with eight seconds left and was good on all five PATs. Jerick McKinnon (Sprayberry/Georgia Southern) ran four times for 34 yards and caught three passes for 15 yards for KC. Orlando Brown (Peachtree Ridge) started at left tackle, and Jaylen Watson (Laney) started at CB and had three tackles.
TE Jordy Forston (Valdosta State) didn’t play, and Mecole Hardman (Elbert County/Georgia) was a medical inactive and placed on injured reserve last week.
Philadelphia CB Darius Slay (Brunswick) had four tackles, and RB Trey Sermon (Sprayberry) was inactive.
Former Georgia standouts Jordan Davis and Nakobe Dean played but recorded no stats.
Hurts apologizes, teammates defend
Toney makes the most of touches
And there were ads with celebs, humor, and dogs
Eagle fans celebrate … until the end
Questionable call late puts damper on classic game
Bradberry confesses: ‘I was hoping they would let it slide’
Q&A with referee on late holding call
Chiefs’ Hardman, Allegretti lead baby watch on Super Bowl day
Anthem brings Sirianni to tears
Philly reported signed Fangio to short scouting contract
Scottsdale doing well as host, folks having fun
Meet the QB-turned-coach who sped up Hurts’ development
Why did so many miss so badly on Mahomes?
Around/About Central Georgia
SB-Mercer goes 1-2 on opening weekend
Around/About Georgia
What is Atlanta’s most pressing defensive need?
Ex-UGA RB Brown talking again with Bucs about OC job
WBKB-Georgia rolls over Florida
College Sports
Florida Senate repeals NIL law
Early exit for Oklahoma, Texas ‘what everyone wanted’
Sankey drops hints about scheduling
College Football
Column-Early arrival of Oklahoma, Texas is exciting
Football/NFL/USFL
Three Colts candidates drop out
Purdy doesn’t mind competing with Lance
College Basketball
W-South Carolina stays perfect with win over LSU
M-Northwestern stuns No. 1 Purdue
W-Villanova’s Siegrist drops 50, sets Big East mark
W-Virginia upsets No. 22 NC State
M-ACC admits blown call in UVa-Duke
M-New Mexico State cancels season
M-New Mexico State players interviewed about hazing
M-Now what for Auburn, amid slide?
NBA/WNBA
Tennis
Golf
Scheffler repeats at Phoenix to regain No. 1
Auto Racing
Soccer
Leeds, Man United condemn tragedy chants by fans
Scoreboards