Wednesday's Report: Honor Roll: Mercer/FVSU, Mercer football mourns; Super Bowl/UGA-Tech/Benz, UGA-Texas, Falcons; MLB playoffs, WNBA playoffs, NFL/meetings, NBA, college🏈/🏀 , NHL
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High Schools
🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐
GHSA playoffs
Class 5A
St. Pius X 3, Warner Robins 0
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
M-Mercer 1, Georgia State 1
🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐
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Alumni Update/Honor Roll
SIAC volleyball: FVSU’s Holmes
SIAC football: FVSU’s Durham, Bell
SoCon men’s soccer: Mercer’s Agard
Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer football mourns death of former player Andrew Robinson
Former Mercer basketball assistant Kummer akes Middle Georgia State athletics job
Around/About Georgia
Super Bowl x coming to Atlanta in 2028
Sarkisian reveals scouting report on Georgia, chess match pending
An underdog for the first time since when?
‘I don’t personally believe that we’re ever an underdog’
Georgia looks for ‘best game’ at No. 1 Texas, shares 4 challenges ahead in pivotal SEC showdown
Tech-UGA in 2025 is in the Benz
Allgeier ties Michael Vick as third-fastest Falcon to reach 2,000 rushing yards
Falcons' secret to a successful run game vs. Carolina
Middle Tennessee beats winless Kennesaw State in the first meeting between the programs
Southern Conference moves volleyball championships from Asheville as area continues Helene recovery
Baseball/MLB
Judge hits first home run of this postseason and Yankees beat Guardians
Snake slithers through Dodgers dugout during NLCS loss to Mets
Ohtani and Lindor leading the way as Dodgers-Mets NLCS shifts to NYC for Game 3 on Wednesday
Kershaw says he plans to return to Dodgers for 18th season in 2025
Column: A few hard truths about the Phillies before we blow them up this offseason
Column: Tigers, Guardians offer important lessons to Pirates -- and it's not all about money
High school/youth sports
At a Miami high school, a father and his NFL player son coach a shared love: football
Gambling
How has sports gambling in Kentucky affected horse racing? So far, so good.
College Football
Weekend full of injuries in college football leaves plenty of playoff contenders scrambling
CFP Bracket Watch: Oregon takes over No. 2 seed; No. 1 Texas, No. 3 Miami, No. 4 Iowa St. hold spots
Utah QB Rising out for season with latest injury, Isaac Wilson will start in his place
Duck hunt: NCAA mulls action after Oregon's loophole move
College Football/weeknights
South Alabama beats Troy in the Battle for the Belt
Football/NFL/USFL
Vikings acquire RB Akers in trade for 2nd straight year, send late pick to Texans
Jets’ addition of Adams will help, but they’ve got plenty of other issues still to overcome
Bills acquire WR Cooper from Browns, giving Allen a much-needed playmaker
Radio rant: Jerry Jones threatens hosts over Cowboys criticism
Harbaugh wearing heart monitor, taking blood thinner after irregular heartbeat
NFL's worst nightmare is coming true in Baltimore
Pederson is trying to stave off a losing culture amid a 1-5 start
Weary Saints urgently trying to end their 4-game slide on a short week
Ridley has his worst game yet with the Titans, going without a single catch
Tagovailoa expected to play again this season
After sweating out an ‘ugly’ win, the Bengals turn their attention to the struggling Browns
NFL meetings
Owners approve Jacksonville’s $1.4 billion ‘stadium of the future’ set to open in 2028
Holding a Super Bowl outside the US is a possibility, Goodell says
Brady’s purchase of a minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders is approved by NFL team owners
Goodell says the league still reviewing latest claims against Deshaun Watson
NBA/Basketball
Intuit Dome opens its doors to Los Angeles Clippers fans
WNBA
During season, bars and restaurants say they saw greater customer demand for women’s sports
With Finals even, Lynx will need to keep leaning on Williams to beat Liberty
College Basketball
South Carolina ranked No. 1 in women’s AP Top 25 preseason poll with UConn, USC, Texas and UCLA next
No. 6 Notre Dame tabbed as ACC women’s basketball favorite with Hidalgo as preseason player of year
Alabama leads new-look SEC with Calipari changing schools, Texas and Oklahoma along for the ride
No. 7 Duke tabbed as ACC men’s basketball favorite; UNC’s RJ Davis named preseason player of year
Auto Racing
Hailie Deegan will move to IndyCar and compete in the Indy NXT Series
What drivers said after 2024 Roval NASCAR Cup playoff race won by Kyle Larson
Results, points after Alex Bowman disqualified from NASCAR Cup playoff race at Roval
Hockey
Power company workers get a standing ovation during the Lightning’s hurricane-delayed home opener
For Johnny and Matthew: Blue Jackets play their home opener with Gaudreaus in mind
Kraken score 4 unanswered goals in 3rd period and send Predators to 3rd straight loss
Soccer
What we learned from Pochettino's first USMNT match
Scoreboards