The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Tuesday's Report: Honor Roll: Mercer, FVSU; Falcons/Cousins, UGA/Texas, Key, Hawks; Streaming, College 🏈/conference finales/changes, NFL, WNBA, NBA, flag football, College 🏀 W/M, MLB

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High Schools
🏀🏀🏀Girls basketball🏀🏀🏀

Gatewood 58, John Hancock 31

Perry 89, Rutland 22

🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀

Rutland 39, Perry 35

🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀

 Miles 58, Fort Valley State 47

🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀

Miles 82, Fort Valley State 54

Pro
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀

Atlanta 124, New Orleans 112

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

What's next for Rhode Island in the FCS Playoffs? Mercer

Honor Roll

SoCon MBKB: Mercer’s Robinson

 

Around/About Georgia

'We all believe in him': Falcons support Cousins after rough 3-game stretch

Column-Penix Jr. era may begin sooner than we thought after Cousins stinker

Column-The unexpected QB dilemma developing

Texas aims for ‘better football ahead’ against Georgia

Texas defense backing up claim as nation’s best heading into SEC title game against Georgia

Tech’s Key still believe Jackson should’ve gotten targeting flag

UGA’s Jackson: ‘what college football is all about’
Georgia notes

Hawks beat skidding Pelicans to extend win streak to 4 games

Green’s 22 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists lead No. 19 Alabama women past Georgia State 98-49

Broadcast

Huge sports events are coming to streaming. Is the technology ready for prime time?

College Football/SEC/ACC/South

Miami’s fate is in the hands of the CFP committee. Cam Ward says the Hurricanes deserve a shot

ACC fines NC State, North Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech for rivalry week scuffles

Kiffin is pushing Ol’ Miss for CFP spot, and he's got a case

Freeze had message for Milroe after Iron Bowl

Player of the Week: QB Kyle McCord shreds Miami defense in Syracuse’s first top-10 win since 2017

Column: The Iron Bowl of teases, wasted potential and what could’ve been

Auburn defensive lineman reportedly plans to enter transfer portal

Pair of reserve Auburn QBs to enter portal

Swinney doesn't want teams planting flags on opposing fields, after 'scary' scrum vs Gamecocks

College Football/Conference Championships

What Oregon’s Lanning said about Big Ten championship vs. Penn State

No. 3 Nittany Lions relying on defensive depth in Big Ten title game and postseason run

Arizona State’s leading receiver Jordyn Tyson to miss Big 12 title game with an injury

College Football

The making of the 12-team playoff: Inside the historic creation of the new college football postseason

Luck returns to Stanford as the GM of the football program

No. 9 Indiana delivers emphatic message to playoff committee with another historic rout

Extra Points: No. 4 Irish still draw on lessons learned from humbling loss to N. Illinois

Hawkeye’s Kaleb Johnson, the Big Ten rushing leader, will sit out bowl and declare for NFL draft

Mayfield doesn’t think NCAA should ban flag planting, says ‘Let the boys play’

Secret's out: Why this Penn State team is so good, different, 'the beauty in it'

USC QB Moss enters transfer portal after losing starting job to Maiava

College Football/Coaching Carousel

Appalachian State fires head coach Clark after first losing season since 2013

Kittley finalizes agreement to take over as Florida Atlantic coach

Alabama A&M fires Maynor after 7 seasons

Florida State hires Nebraska’s White as DC

Oklahoma hires Washington State’s 29-year-old Arbuckle as OC

Holgorsen signs 2-year contract to stay on as Nebraska’s OC

NFL/USFL/UFL/Football

Texans' Azeez Al-Shaair shares apology to Lawrence, teammates for controversial hit

McMillian’s pick-6 helps Broncos spoil career nights by Winston, Jeudy and beat Browns 

Buccaneers are back to .500 and in position to control their playoff hopes down the stretch

Panthers’ Young suffers another loss, but continues to show late-game production

Saints lose Hill for the final minutes of a loss to the Rams - and perhaps longer

Tomlin on Pickens after latest: ‘He’s got to grow up’

McCaffrey headed to IR, again, with an injured right knee

Bengals defense flops again in loss to Steelers

Murray’s late mistakes contribute to Cardinals’ blown lead in loss to Vikings

The battle cry of a city reborn: 'JAR-ed Goff'

Rodgers and the Jets stall after a promising start and now there are more questions about his future

Red-zone woes, failure to stop Colts on 4th down on final drive doom Patriots to 3rd straight loss

Jets CB Reed calls out refs after loss: 'Y'all should be ashamed'

Campbell dismisses controversy on Gibbs' photo leaking protection calls

Flag football

Flag football scours nation with talent camps to uncover next wave of stars

College Basketball/Women

Women’s NET Rankings

South Carolina women’s basketball team receives national championship and SEC title rings

TCU, Duke climb into top 10, Notre Dame drops in women’s AP Top 25; UCLA and UConn remain 1-2

College Basketball/Men

Men’s NET Rankings

Kansas holds off Auburn for No. 1 in AP Top 25 as SEC grabs 3 of top 4 spots; UConn slides to No. 25

Pierre Jr.'s double-double leads Jacksonville State past Columbia International

NBA

Timberwolves blow out Lakers behind Randle, Gobert and tough defense

Brown scores 29, Pritchard adds 25 bench points to lead Celtics past Heat

WNBA

$200M battle for WNBA expansion team signals league has entered a new era

Baseball/MLB

Rangers and C Higashioka agree to $13.5M, 2-year contract with mutual option for 2027

Molitor, Murray, Pérez among voters on Hall of Fame panel considering players bypassed by writers

Mets add Montas to their rotation with a $34 million, 2-year contract, AP source says

Golf

Marcoux Samaan stepping down as LPGA commissioner after 3 1/2 years of record prize money

Scoreboards

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games