Wednesday's Report: HS/college scores; Mercer/SoCon awards, Alumni Update: Lamar County; Falcons, UGA, Georgia State Hawks; College 🏈/rankings, NFL, College 🏀 W/M, NBA, MLB, WNBA, soccer
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High Schools
🏀🏀🏀Girls basketball🏀🏀🏀
Bleckley County 57, Perry 40
Jones County 69, Southwest 19
Stratford 59, Westfield 43
🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀
Bleckley County 65, Pery 51
Houston County 66, Lovejoy 52
Jackson 65, Crawford County 61
Southwest 81, Jones County 53
Stratford 64, Westfield 48
Da’Laila Lowe topped the Eaglettes with 14 points.
Vidalia 51, Veterans 40
Westside 54, Northside 43
Joshua Harden led the Seminoles with 17 points and 18 rebounds, Christian Little adding14 points and Jalen Whitely 13.
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Georgia 79, Prairie View A&M 62
🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Austin Peay 62, Georgia State 60
Miami, Ohio 75, Mercer 72
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Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer dominates Southern Conference awards
Alumni Update
Lamar County’s CJ Allen talks Bulldogs, Jackets
Around/About Georgia
The Family You Choose: How adoption shaped Kaden Elliss' family
CFP rankings update for Georgia: Where Bulldogs landed in bracket
Smart updates running back room; other injuries
Suspended Georgia WR Young ramps up involvement with team
Injury updates on Etienne, others
COLUMN: The San Marcos Redemption gives Georgia State fans hope in a lost season
NBA says Hawks violated player participation policy by sitting Trae Young for Cup game
Opinion
College football is now just a business, each player a free agent — and the fans lose
College Football/SEC/ACC/South
Brown intend(ed)s to return to North Carolina
Well, North Carolina fires Mack Brown
Mississippi State gets former Kennesaw State CB Williams from transfer portal
Kiffin, Ol’ Miss face challenge of keeping team focused after CFP letdown
Norvell admits top OC/DC candidates may coach in CFP
Kiffin praises Ol’ Miss football as an elite SEC job
Oklahoma’s throwback offensive approach against Alabama gets LSU’s attention
SWAC clears Jackson State over UAPB practice film allegation
Tennessee State’s Eddie George named Eddie Robinson Award finalist
College Football/Rivalry Week
Freeze knows 'how talented' Alabama’s Williams is. He recruited him
'I will not lose to Bama': Auburn LB Riddick sounds off on Iron Bowl week
What DeBoer has heard about Iron Bowl rivalry
One game season for Wisconsin vs. Minnesota for the Axe
Ol’ Miss injury report vs Mississippi State
Clemson QB Klubnik duels South Carolina’s Sellers with CFP berth in play
Oklahoma’s throwback offensive approach against Alabama gets LSU’s attention
Norvell thinks offense will be more confident in FSU-Uf rivalry game
Despite record disparity, Michigan players confident in ability to win at Ohio State
College Football
SEC losses are big gains for SMU and Indiana in latest College Football Playoff rankings
CFP committee chair on Indiana: 'We still felt their body of work was strong enough.'
Wild first season of expanded Big 12 comes down to what should be a chaotic weekend
UNLV a big favorite to beat Nevada in its quest to make the Mountain West title game
Expanded Big Ten could put 4 teams in the playoff — thanks to Indiana’s unexpected rise
Field stormings bring fines for Big 12, SEC schools after weekend of upsets arouses fans
Houston fires offensive coordinator Kevin Barbay with team struggling to score
College Football/Weeknights
Akron tops Toledo for 1st time in 11 years beating Rockets in OT
Ogbonna accounts for 5 TDs, Henderson runs for 185 yards and Buffalo beats winless Kent State
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
Success of Derrick Henry, Saquon Barkley and other NFL running backs may change position’s future
Report: 10 teams have reached out to Daniel Jones (and one wants him to play now)
Barkley is the NFL’s version of Shohei Ohtani: Analysis
Traffic citations against Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill dismissed after officers no-show at hearing
Newton on Bo Nix: ‘I hate to say I told you so’
Raiders QB Minshew is out for the season with a broken collarbone
Lions once again show they are comfortable winning on the road
Can the Steelers play two QBs and make it work?
College Basketball/Women
No. 14 Kentucky women roll past Arizona State with scoring and rebounding balance
Meyer scores 19 and South Dakota State women beat No. 21 Oregon
Green and Essence Cody combine for 32 points, No. 23 Alabama women rout Clemson
College Basketball/Men
UConn loses its cool, then loses a game. And Dan Hurley had some thoughts afterward
No. 1 Kansas holds off No. 11 Duke after Dickinson ejected in the Vegas Showdown
No. 2 UConn falls again in Maui, losing to Colorado on Jakimovski’s off-balance layup
Gilbert and Jones help No. 5 Iowa State outlast Dayton in Maui
Broome has 23 points and 19 rebounds as No. 4 Auburn tops No. 12 UNC 85-72 to reach Maui title game
Oweh, Carr each score 18 points to help No. 8 Kentucky outlast Western Kentucky
No. 9 Alabama outlasts No. 6 Houston
Davis scores 16 of his 19 in the second half and Florida State cruises past Western Carolina
Fox scores 29 as Citadel takes down Saint Andrews (NC)
Harding leads Iowa’s offensive assault in win over South Carolina Upstate
Holloway’s 24 lead Samford past North Dakota State 103-98 in OT
College Sports
Court rejects request to sideline San Jose State volleyball player on grounds she’s transgender
College Sports, the changing landscape
Clemson AD Neff says school will fully fund NCAA settlement and add 150 scholarships in two years
NBA
Vucevic and White lead Bulls to 127-108 win over Wizards, losers of 12 straight
Lillard scores 37 points and Giannis-less Bucks hold off Heat 106-103 to move to 3-0 in Cup play
Baseball/MLB
Nakken, first full-time female coach in MLB history, leaving Giants to join Guardians
World Series champion Dodgers’ full share $477,441, MLB postseason pool a record $129.1 million
Column: With Rays bedeviled in Tampa Bay, Orlando needs to act on Pat Williams' vision
Soccer
US goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher is retiring from international soccer
Lewandowski joins Ronaldo and Messi in Champions League 100-goal club. Haaland nets 2 but City draws
Scoreboards