The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Tuesday's Report: HS scores, Macon TD Club POTW, Mercer; Falcons, UGA, Tech, Hawks; College 🏈, NFL, College 🏀 W/M, NBA, MLB rookies, NASCAR, boxing, UFC

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High Schools

🏈🏈🏈Flag football🏈🏈🏈

Hawkinsville 39, Macon County 0

Mary Persons 55, Jackson 0

Pike County 18, Baldwin 0; Pike County 35, Rutland 0

Rutland 12, Baldwin 7

Warner Robins 20, Hawkinsville 6; Warner Robins 9, Macon County 6

Wheeler County 24, Northside 0

Westside 20, Northeast 0

🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀

Mount de Sales 66, Covenant 44

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Stratford 50, Southwest 18; Southwest 45, Mary Persons 33

 

Pro

🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀

Atlanta 109, Sacramento 108

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

VB-Mercer finishes undefeated at home, takes regular-season title

 

Macon Touchdown Club taps Greyhounds and a Viking

          The Macon Touchdown Club picked a pair of Jones County players and one from FPD as players of the week.

          Back: Senior quarterback Devin Edmonds of Jones County completed  22 of 28 passes for 343 yards and four scores in the Greyhounds’ 51-21 playoff win over East Forsyth.

          Back: Senior wideout Jaivon Solomon of Jones County caught 11 passes for 243 yards and a touchdown in the win over East Forsyth. 

          Lineman: Senior linebacker and offensive lineman Kip Cawley of FPD accounted for nine tackles and a tackle for loss at linebacker. He also graded out at 92 percent and had two pancake blocks in the 34-0 GIAA Class 4A semifinal win over Bethlehem Christian.

 

Around/About Georgia

Falcons head into bye week on 2-game losing streak and reeling from worst defeat since 2021

As Nix shines for Broncos, fellow rookie Penix Jr. watches, learns

Nix continues to impress, carves up Falcons in Broncos blowout; Penix Jr. sees late playing time

Smart goes to extreme – and hysterical – lengths to improve tackling

UMass fires Brown after he goes 6-28 in 3 seasons

Column: Georgia Tech honors Dennis Scott on night when more glory days seem far away

Braves notes

Hunter scores 24 points, Daniels has game-winning block as Hawks beat Kings

 

Opinion

Embiid shoving incident a microcosm of our society’s loss of respect for one another

College Football/SEC/ACC/South

Louisville suspends CB Holloway after arrest on domestic violence charges

The wait is on for Palmetto rivals No. 17 Clemson and No. 19 South Carolina in another CFP audition

SWAC suspends 16 players from Jackson State-Alabama State melee, fines both schools

UF’s Napier set to face his one-time hoped-for replacement, Kiffin

North Alabama receives bid of under $50 million for new stadium construction

College Football-‘Going in a different direction’

Charlotte fires Poggi after he went 6-16 in 2 seasons

FAU cans Herman after 6-16 in 2 seasons

Wisconsin’s Fickell doesn’t go into specifics one day after firing Longo as OC

College Football

Even in death, college football fans want to be at their favorite stadiums

Who are the Heisman Trophy frontrunners after Week 12?

Winners and losers: The 21 teams that still have a shot at thee CFP

Player of the Week: New Mexico’s Dampier has hand in 4 TDs in 1st win over Top 25 foe since 2003

Extra Points: No. 16 Buffs double win total and look for more - lots more, Sanders says

Penn State football player, university sued for scooter crash that injured child

NFL/USFL/UFL/Football

Pederson on his job status entering Jaguars’ bye week: ‘I can’t control that’

Browns’ fade continues against Saints despite Winston’s production against his former club

Ravens’ Jackson and the NFL’s top-ranked offense fail to stop AFC North rival Steelers - again

Bears’ offense looks better with Brown (UGA) calling the plays during another tough loss

Jets head into their bye ‘angry, frustrated’ after blowing a late lead and losing to the Colts

Raiders allow points on 6 of 7 drives and lose 6th straight game

Mahomes and Chiefs focus on addressing flaws after bid for perfect season ends

Why are so many NFL kickers getting hurt? Specialist switches have been trending up this season

Seahawks center Williams retires for personal reasons

Bills’ new stadium costs balloon to $2.1 billion, $560 million over initial estimate, team tells AP

Texans never trail while handing Cowboys 5th straight loss

College Basketball/Women

AP Top 25: TCU earns best ranking in 16 years

No. 7 LSU runs season-opening win streak to 5 games with win over Troy

Van Lith gets emotional after double-double in TCU upset win

College Basketball/Men

Hansel Enmanuel making an impact for Austin Peay on court with his 1 arm

Broome has 30 points and 17 rebounds to lead No. 4 Auburn past North Alabama

Ike scores 23 and Nembhard has 19 to lead No. 3 Gonzaga

Thiero scores 23 points as No. 20 Arkansas beats Pacific

Shockley-Okeke scores 21 points off the bench as Howard knocks off Florida International

Leggett, Lowe lead potent Pitt attack, roll past for fourth straight win

Buckley scores 16 points as SE Louisiana tops UL Monroe

Solomon scores 20 to help UNC Asheville beat North Florida

McGhee scores 25 as UAB defeats Auburn-Montgomery

Fasoyiro scores 19 to lead South Alabama over Spring Hill

NBA

NBA All-Star Game could be changing. Here's what we know about the new tournament format.

Lakers to honor former coach Riley with a statue outside their downtown arena

Bucks win on Lillard’s late basket to snap Rockets’ 5-game win streak

Knicks roll to a win that extends’ Wizards’ losing streak to 9

Baseball/MLB

Pirates ace Paul Skenes and Yankees pitcher Luis Gil win Rookie of the Year awards

Jackie Robinson NL Rookies of the Year

Jackie Robinson AL Rookies of the Year

Pitcher Martinez accepts $21.05 million qualifying offer to remain with Reds

The case for Soto reaching Ohtani's record $700M contract

Auto Racing

Bobby Allison's greatest NASCAR Cup Series races

Hockey

NHL referee Dunning communicative, can move extremities following violent collision

Boxing/MMA/UFC/WWE

Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight draws record betting for a combat sports event

Aspinall 'very, very optimistic' Jones will fight happens after meeting with UFC

Scoreboards

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games