News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

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In Coverage: GHSA championship week in Macon

 

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High School

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Baldwin 5, Howard 3

Fullington 12, Crisp 0

Gatewood 8, RTCA 0

GMC 14, Covenant 4

John Milledge 12, Brentwood 0

Jones County 10, Eagle’s Landing 0

Lamar County 10, Putnam County 2

Locust Grove 12, Warner Robins 0

Perry 17, Westside 1; Perry 19, Westside 0

Rutland 10, Northside 5

Taylor County 6, Chattahoochee County 5

Upson-Lee 5, Rock Springs 0

West Laurens 22, Griffin 0

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Girls

Covenant 4, RTCA 1

Dodge County 10, Sumter County 0

Trinity Christian 10, David Emanuel 0

Windsor 3, FPCA 0

Boys

Dodge County 6, Sumter County 2

Dooly County 10, Turner County 2 

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M-Palmetto Intercollegiate, Mercer 

Pro

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Miami 130, Atlanta 128

 

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Alumni Update

Northeast grad Williams taking over Texas Tech for conference tournament

Dodge County’s Floyd leaving Rams for … somewhere

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast         

Bally Sports to do 149 Braves games

Sports betting in Georgia sees prospects dim on Senate vote

MBKB-Kennesaw State has come a long way in a short time

MBKB-Georgia Tech opens with Florida State

Fontenot on the art of the interview

An NFL scouting report on Bennett, by Bennett

McIntosh selling RBU

No restrictions, Acuna ready for Classic

First projection of opening-day roster

What Ridley’s reinstatement means for Falcons

Heat bench handles Hawks

  

College Basketball Tournaments

W-Southern Conference

M-Southern Conference

W-Peach Belt, Wednesday

M-Peach Belt, Thursday

W-SIAC

M-SIAC

W-GCAA (nothing posted)

M-GCAA (nothing posted)

W-SEC

M-SEC

W-ACC

M-ACC

W-Sun Belt

M-Sun Belt

W-ASUN

M-ASUN

Women’s conference tournaments

Men’s conference tournaments 

College Basketball

W-Top 25

M-Top 25

M-Furman in first Dance since 1980

M-Louisiana takes Sun Belt bid

W-UConn takes another Big East title

M-No. 14 Miami top seed in open ACC tourney

W-James Madison wins Sun Belt

M-Alabama’s Miller leads All-SEC selections

M-Kentucky hasn’t been to SEC finale in five years

M-About those preseason SEC predictions …

Fired-Austin Peay’s James after two seasons 

Football/NFL/USFL

Saints to get Derek Carr

Seahawks, Smith come to terms     

Ex-Falcon Ridley reinstated for Jacksonville

College Baseball

An 11-RBI game?        

Division I’s longest tenured coach announces retirement after 54 years 

NBA/Basketball/WNBA

Not much D in 147-143

No timetable for Morant’s return

Police investigating Morant’s gun situation

Column-Grizzlies couldn’t ignore Morant’s petulance

Giannis triple-double taken away after stat review

Roundup

 

College Football

Column-Saban wonders about the schedule

Iowa settles race bias lawsuit using taxpayer money

 

Auto Racing

 

MLB/Baseball

Shift limits raise spirits and averages

 

Golf

Will LIV golfers find a pathway back to PGA?

McIlroy didn’t realize he had lead before aggressive tee shot

Soccer

St. Louis shows roots in sport with big MLS home debut

Scoreboards

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games

College baseball scores