Tuesday's Report: A great Friday night, Signings-Warner Robins/Dodge County, Northside's Nelson; Beck, Thornton status, Tech, Falcons; College football HQ, NFL, college hoops, MLB, WNBA

Tuesday's Report: A great Friday night, Signings-Warner Robins/Dodge County, Northside's Nelson; Beck, Thornton status, Tech, Falcons; College football HQ, NFL, college hoops, MLB, WNBA

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High Schools

🏈🏈🏈Flag football playoffs🏈🏈🏈

Columbus 27, Washington County 18

Dodge County 20, Westside 0

          The Indians will host Southeast Bulloch on Thursday in a Division I semifinal.

Pope 26, Peach County 0

🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀

Rock Springs 73, Covenant 60

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Around/About Central Georgia

 

Alumni Update

Northside’s Nelson comes out of retirement to KC

Honor Roll

SoCon MBKB: Mercer’s Johnson

Signings

          As expected, Warner Robins defensive back Rasean Dinkins signed with Georgia for football.

          Dodge County’s Skie Riner has signed with Brewton-Parker for flag football.

Around/About Georgia

Beck’s status for Sugar Bowl uncertain as he considers treatment options on elbow

Bad news for punter Thorson

Bulldogs preparing to move forward with Stockton

Georgia projects as sweet favorite in Sugar Bowl matchup with Notre Dame or Indiana

Vanderbilt vs Georgia Tech  in Birmingham Bowl: What Commodores need to do to win

Cousins throws away Falcons' chances, and possibly their season, in return to Minnesota

Falcons are sticking with Kirk Cousins and may get a break thanks to a soft schedule

The consistency conundrum of the 2024 Atlanta Falcons

Questions on Cousins’ future intensify amid Falcons' 4-game skid

Column: Young's game-winning shot reminds everyone who he is

Money

$1 million per homer? $27,000 a point? $229 per second? Sports is loaded with money oddities

College Football Playoffs

Is the College Football Playoff bracket fair? Here are some tweaks that would have changed things

A look at the matchups

Column-If SEC tries to game CFP system by dumbing down non-conference schedules, it will fail

Texas must rid itself of Georgia blues, prep for Clemson

Playoff game at Ohio State has sold 34% more tickets than Notre Dame game on StubHub

Ranking CFP first-round games: Why Indiana-Notre Dame has potential to be best matchup

Notre Dame’s Freeman on Indiana's Cignetti: 'I Googled him'

Alabama’s $83.3M budget couldn’t buy the tide a CFP berth

Alabama AD Byrne may assess Alabama scheduling after first CFP bracket

Who has the best odds to win the title?

Heupel talks Ohio State, weather and Vols in big games

College Football/SEC/ACC/South

Could Shula, Elliott replace Loggains as South Carolina OC?

AP All-ACC: Miami QB Ward honored as offensive player and newcomer of the year

College Football/Portal

College football transfer portal opens as Oklahoma’s Arnold, other top players look for a move

College Football

Oregon’s Gabriel, Colorado’s Hunter, Boise State’s Jeanty, Miami’s Ward are named Heisman finalists

AP Player of the Week: Arizona State’s Cam Skattebo put up big numbers again in Big 12 title game

College Football/Coaching Carousel

Belichick says he’s had ‘good conversations’ with UNC chancellor amid Tar Heels’ coaching search

Tulane announces a contract extension for coach Jon Sumrall

Valparaiso hires longtime Marietta coach Andy Waddle to take over its football program

Appalachian State, Charlotte introduce new football coaches as they look to turn around programs

Frost, UCF excited about reunion and school’s future in Big 12

College Football/Bowls

Sanders explains why Alamo Bowl will be tough for him emotionally

NFL/USFL/UFL/Football

Bowers (UGA) is long shot to win top rookie honors, but Raiders TE blazes record pace

Plane circles MetLife Stadium with message to co-owner John Mara to fix the Giants’ ‘dumpster fire’

The Vikings and their in-gear offense will be a tough team to outscore moving forward

Saints are making contingency plans to play without QB Derek Carr as they try to stay alive

49ers’ playoff hopes are still teetering even after get-right game against the Bears

Panthers lose rookie RB Jonathon Brooks for the season to a torn ACL; same knee he injured at Texas

NFL ends investigation into sexual assault allegations against Browns QB Deshaun Watson

Jets’ postseason drought extends to NFL-high 14 straight seasons with a loss to Dolphins

Campbell, Lions no longer satisfied with just making the playoffs

Giants owners face a decision on how to mollify frustrated fans

College Basketball/Women

No. 19 Tennessee back in women’s AP Top 25 after year out of poll; UCLA, UConn remain 1-2

Watkins now has a dunk in each of her 3 seasons with South Carolina women

College Basketball/Men

Tennessee grabs No. 1 in AP Top 25 after shakeup; No. 3 Iowa State has highest ranking since 1950s

Amoore and Amelia Hassett combine for 39 points, and No. 16 Kentucky women beat Queens 

Jones scores 34 to lead South Carolina State over Charleston Southern

College Sports, the changing landscape

Jersey patches on college uniforms? More sponsors could be coming soon with new Learfield initiative

WNBA

Clark trading card sells for $234,850, shattering previous Clark and WNBA record

Ionescu recovering from offseason surgery following WNBA Finals injury

Baseball/MLB

Soto’s record $765 million, 15-year contract with Mets reverberates through Major League Baseball

Holmes and New York Mets finalize $38 million, 3-year contract

Brewers manager going to miss departing shortstop Willy Adames: ‘Losing this guy, whew’

Scoreboards

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games