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Around/About Central Georgia
FVSU has SIAC’s top offensive player, Wildcats picked fourth
Fort Valley State quarterback Kelvin Durham was voted the SIAC’s top offensive player heading into 2023 at the conference’s media day Wednesday.
Central Georgians making preseason All-SIAC first team: Savannah State RB Shamarcus Poole, Washington County; DL Tim Alderman, Peach County, FVSU; DB Landon Austin, Macon County, FVSU.
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Other Wildcats: OL Jemeil Jackson, TE Gentry Sparks, WR Corintheus Edmonds, LB Kentrell Lawson, PR Hakeem Ellington.
Second team: RB Deondre Duehart, Northeast, Benedict; KR Justin Harris, Peach County, FVSU; LB Dialo Mosley, FVSU.
Lexington County rolls past Macon late
An even game through six innings went in another director after Lexington County scored five runs in the eighth for an 8-3 win over visiting Macon.
The Blowfish outhit the Bacon 13-5, and struck out 10 Macon batters.
Jaime Jonathan (Georgia Southern) had two hits for Lexington County.
The teams play in Macon on Thursday, and Macon is back home on Saturday against Lexington County.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Magical Wimbledon ride ends for Eubanks in five
Washington County’s Gray leads Atlanta to sixth straight win
Truist, Wrigley under consideration for All-Star Games
New UGA baseball coach has confidence
Even amid HR binge, Olson less impressed with himself
Column-Atlanta needs to start restocking farm system
Good start leads New England over Atlanta
MLB/Baseball
NL’s last win was sooo long ago … (how long ago was it?)
All-Star attire: Acuna makes a statement
Ripken wasn’t thrilled with A-Rod’s All-Star gesture in 2001
Teams have gotten 94 percent of money owed by Diamond Sports
Oakland starts official process to move
Pickleball comes to Fenway Park
Around the nation/world
ESPYs: LeBron’s coming back; Sox reliever Hendriks gets Jimmy V Award, more winners
Tennis
Jabeur overwhelms defending champ Rybakina
Alcaraz shows ruthless streak in bloodless win
Alcaraz admits father ‘probably’ filmed Djokovic training
Sabalenka: Stop booing Belarusian, Russian players
Soccer
Panama knocks out US on penalty kicks
How USWNT past and present blazed trails for mothers in sports
ACL injuries keeping stars out of Women’s World Cup
College Football
Ranking SEC football traditions
Big 12 notebook: OSU loses starters, title game staying put
‘Open for business’ was about more than expansion
College Sports
Vitale reveals vocal cord cancer
175 sports-betting violations in NCAA since 2018
New West Virginia AD has had no honeymoon
Column-Huggins desperation is embarrassing, pointless
South Carolina freshmen expect even more success
NFL/XFL/USFL/Football
Who leaked Gruden emails? Maybe Snyder, or Goodell, or others
Coughlin, Shanahan among semifinalists for HOF
Hopkins, Cook lead list of remaining free agents
NBA/Basketball/WNBA
Arrest warrant issued for friend of Morant over fight
Morant lawyers cite ‘stand your ground’ and self defense
Williamson trying to fix past offseason mistakes
Portland GM, Lillard haven’t talked in months
Drummond: Bad attitude cost me millions
Auto Racing
Johnson, Knaus nominated for NASCAR HOF
Boxing/UFC/MMA
Fury-Ngannou to fight in Saudi Arabia this fall
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