The Central Georgia Sports Report

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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

UGA notes

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

Southern Conference awards

 

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

2024 CFP 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

USA Today op 25 Poll

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

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games