Wednesday's Report: Scoreboard; Jones County's Howard, Gatewood's Wallace, Mercer, FVSU; Hawks fire McMillan, Braves, Georgia, Monken; college 🏀&🏈, NASCAR, MLB, NBA, MLS expansion
Tuesday'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
Gatewood’s Wallace part of Jalen Carter’s ‘character’ issue
Honor Roll/Players of the Week
Around/About Central Georgia
WBKB-Culbreath’s final-minute 3 lifts FVSU to upset
MBKB-Wildcats roll past Savannah State
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Soroka’s strained hammy a ‘kick in the groin’
The latest on the Bulldogs visiting the White House
Monken made a lateral move, deflects praise and credit
The Creans helped get Monken to Baltimore
Georgia opponent (from Tech): ‘The field was smaller’
BSB-Tech rallies to edge Georgia Southern
College Football
LSU standout charged with illegal carrying of weapon on Bourbon St.
Dix quickly got on Saban’s bad side with new job
Duggan eye future, not thinking of TCU past
‘Portal’ claims three Cincinnati coaches in a week
NFL/USFL/ XFL
Brady, kids volunteered in Tampa Bay for whole season
Brown has a lot to say about trade from Tennessee to Philly
Ex-Chief Charles defends Bieniemy after McCoy’s viral criticisms
Column-Return of XFL and USFL leads to a simple question: why?
College Basketball
M-Star Alabama player delivered gun in shooting
W-Possible undefeated season a subplot for national-title favorite South Carolina
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Jokic has chance to join some exclusive clubs
Bulls sign Beverly with Ball done
College Sports
Column-NCAA arguments in favor of amateurism grow more ridiculous
Auto Racing
NASCAR notebook: Fox’s coverage, Auto Club, Busch can smile
What frustrated Busch in Daytona
MLB/Baseball
New timer will affect more than just pitchers
Ex-Mets pitching coach suing for age discrimination
Golf
Column-It was a quiet break for LIV
Soccer
MLS expands playoffs to 9 teams from each conference, to best of 3s
ESPN ex-exec describes how Cup was lost, perhaps sabotaged by Fox
Scoreboards
Women’s college basketball scores/games
Men’s college basketball scores/games