The Central Georgia Sports Report

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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
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Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐
GHSA playoffs
Class 5A

St. Pius X 3, Warner Robins 0

🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

M-Mercer 1, Georgia State 1

🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐

Albany State 3, FVSU 0

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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’

UGA injury update

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

Doug Collins puts bow on wide-ranging basketball career with Hall of Fame enshrinement: 'I feel like I belong here'

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

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games

NFL scores/games