Thursday's Report: HS/college scores, signings, Mercer; Dream hire, UGA, Falcons, hoops; College 🏈/SEC/ACC/South/nation/news, NFL, broadcast, college hoops, NBA, boxing/MMA, MLB,
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High Schools
🏈🏈🏈Flag football🏈🏈🏈
Central 7, Northeast 6
Dutchtown 19, Baldwin 6
Mary Persons 20, Baldwin 0; Mary Persons 6, Dutchtown 0
Pike County 21, Howard 0
Westside 33, Southwest 0
🏀🏀🏀Girls basketball🏀🏀🏀
Lamar County 61, Heritage-Conyers 50
🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀
Washington County 64, Southeast Bulloch 50
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Georgia College 80, Erskine 48
🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Auburn-Montgomery 84, Georgia College 76
Mercer 101, Trinity Baptist 43
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Signings
Crawford County: Drew Hammock is the Eagles’ first baseball player to sign with a Division I program, Kennesaw State. Also: Makale Harris and Isaac Meadows with Gordon State for baseball.
Dublin: Caitlyn Nesbitt with Duke for softball.
Houston County: Ethan Buffone with Mercer for baseball and soccer; Ansleigh Darby and Kinley Snider with ABAC for softball; Vick Gann with Georgia Gwinnett for baseball; Clair McArthur with Samford for softball; Max Wilhide with Chattahoochee Valley for baseball; Hayley McElroy with Embry-Riddle for softball, Tucker Hale with Gordon State for baseball.
Piedmont: Kami Gibby with LaGrange for softball; Teagan Hinson with Augusta for softball; Kylee Keck with GMC JC for softball; Shaniya Lane with Delaware State for softball ;Memphis Sweat with GMC JC for softball; Emily Whitwell with UNC Wilmington for softball.
Stratford: Graci Kluge with Georgia Gwinnett for softball; Emma Jordan with Winthrop for softball; Drew Sutherland with North Georgia for golf; Phillips Swift with Mercer for golf.
Westfield: Cate Raines with Mercer for softball, Neal O’Brien with ABAC for baseball, and Madison Hammock with Troy for softball.
Around/About Central Georgia
MBKB-Mercer throttles National Christian College Athletic Association visitor
MBKB-Bobcats fall in home opener
BSB-Mercer schedule includes FSU, Tech, both GSUs, Virginia Tech
Around/About Georgia
Dream hire longtime successful Florida Gulf Coast coach Karl Smesko
Column-Georgia is all out of excuses as CFP hopes shrink. Your move, Kirby Smart
Smart gives interesting answer on where Georgia has gotten better since its second bye week
Georgia OL looking for answers
Smart on rankings: ‘It’s a long way from over’
Atlanta designates Carter to return from IR
Robinson surpasses 1,000 scrimmage yards in season-best performance
The defensive adjustments that worked for the Falcons in second half of loss to the Saints
MBKB-Georgia State stumbles at end of loss to Jacksonville State
MBKB-Lue scores 16 as Kennesaw State defeats Bryan
College Football/SEC/ACC/South
No. 23 South Carolina’s charge powered by Raheim ‘Rocket’ Sanders
Who’s calling the plays for Auburn at this pointn?
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry takes shot at LSU players after Alabama loss, defends live tiger
Alabama looks to avoid repeating post-Georgia performance
Auburn’s Thorne still nursing injury to throwing shoulder
Column: Will the College Football Playoff committee punish the SEC?
Troy looking to sustain momentum heading into season’s home stretch
Drinkwitz shares his winning strategy
South Alabama gets set to meet first-place team for 3rd straight game
Examining tiebreakers that would put Clemson in ACC Championship Game
College Football
All his players say it: 'John Robinson was hands down my all-time favorite head coach'
College football picks: Tricky games could make path to Big 12 title game bumpy for BYU and Colorado
NIL provides new artillery for recruiting wars in what Ol’ Miss coach Kiffin says is a flawed system
Minnesota QB Max Brosmer has proven this season the FCS transfer route can lead to success
Will BYU complete an undefeated regular season? Here’s what the numbers say
Have Kelly, Riley been worth the gamble?
BYU cheer coach lost consciousness after getting hit by water bottle following win
College Football/Weeknights
Navarro has career-best passing day, runs for 4 TDs to lead Ohio over Eastern Michigan
Mozee runs for 196 yards, Gabbert tosses 2 TD passes and Miami (Ohio) topples Kent State
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
Bates' game-winning field goal highlights rise from brick salesman to Lions star
Winners and Losers: Bears have to figure out how to fix Williams' problems
Jaguars rule out against the Lions and hope to get him back after a bye
Colts give Richardson the starting QB job for game and rest of season
Browns coach: Wills used ‘poor choice of words’ in saying it was ‘business decision’ not to play
With losing streak over, interim Saints coach Rizzi hopes to keep challenging his team
Campbell still amazed at Lions comeback to beat Texans on Sunday night
Shanahan says players’ sideline spat has been ‘squashed’
Raiders TE Mayer returns after missing 6 games because of personal reasons
Broadcast
FanDuel Sports Network regional channels will be available as add-on subscription on Prime Video
College Basketball/Women
Staley says she once wanted to play in NBA
Milicic scores 18 points as No. 11 Tennessee beats Montana
Beers scores 27 as No. 9 Oklahoma women set school scoring record in win over Western Carolina
Barker’s 19 points, 9 rebounds lead No. 22 Alabama women by Norfolk State
Karaban, Ball help No. 3 UConn rout Le Moyne
College Basketball/Men
Ex-Duke star Singler draws concern from basketball world over cryptic Instagram post
Broome, Johnson score 18 apiece to lead No. 5 Auburn to 79-56 win over Kent State
No. 6 Duke deals with more cramping issues in loss to No. 19 Kentucky
No. 8 Houston routs Louisiana to rebound after loss to No. 5 Auburn on Saturday
No. 14 Creighton routs Houston Christian 78-43, Greg McDermott becomes Bluejays’ career wins leader
Edwards scores 14 of his 18 in the second half, Vanderbilt secures 18 steals in win over Cal
Taylor scores 22 and NC State tops Coastal Carolina
Stewart scores 26 as Presbyterian takes down Wofford
NBA
Popovich had a stroke earlier this month
Wembanyama drops career-high 50 points while leading Spurs to win
LaVine scores 31 points, White hits winning free throws and Bulls outlast Knicks
WNBA
Dream hire longtime Florida Gulf Coast coach Karl Smesko to lead team
Baseball/MLB
Ted Williams memorabilia up for auction. Top items are 1946 MVP award, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Tennis
Alcaraz overcomes physical issues to move back into contention at ATP Finals. Zverev wins again
Golf
Looking to cap special season, Korda returns after health issues
Boxing/MMA/UFC/WWE
MMA star Conor McGregor says sexual assault claim is ‘full blown lie among many lies’
It’s a quiet Mike Tyson as 58-year-old nears fight with Jake Paul, 31 years his junior
Paul bets his entire purse that he'll beat Tyson
Scoreboards
Women’s college basketball scores/games
Men’s college basketball scores/games