Thursday’s Report: Scoreboard: HS, colleges; Mercer, Georgia College, Houston County; Georgia State coach, Tech’s Butker, Falcons, UGA, state hoops; College W&M 🏀/📰/ 🏈, NFL, NBA, MLB, ⛳, ⚽, UFC

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Around/About Central Georgia

MBKB-Perfect night for Holt lifts Mercer

SB-Georgia College pops Shorter twice

WBKB-Big first half, Strickland lift Georgia College

MBKB-Houston County’s Sloan hits career high to lead Bobcats

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Benches-clearing brawl ends season for Spalding and Wayne County girls, GHSA penalties likely

Georgia State set for home-run hire of UGA’s McGee?

Chiefs K Butker (Georgia Tech) 'honored' to send jersey to parade shooting victim for funeral

Atlanta WR coach wants next steps from London

'The No. 1 thing is they're a good group that really compliments each other':  Ruud on the versatility of Falcons inside linebackers

Why NFL mock drafts have a tough time placing Brock Bowers, even as he’s ‘a Pro Bowl player’

Lane hits go-ahead 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds left, Georgia State beats Coastal Carolina

Georgia breaks losing streak

Clemson handles Tech on barrage of 3s

 

Women’s College Basketball

Thibault-DuDonis, carrying on the family business, has Fairfield on a 20-game winning streak

Lee’s 34 points catapults No. 10 Kansas State over No. 22 West Virginia in OT

Roundup

Men’s College Basketball

Furman to spend $40 million for renovations at basketball arena

Major conference races are heating up down the stretch

Pitino erupts after latest St. John’s loss: ‘This is the most unenjoyable experience of my lifetime’

George Mason hands No. 16 Dayton third A-10 loss

Red-hot shooting fuels No. 8 Duke's 84-55 rout of Miami

Ward’s last-second shot lifts LSU over No. 17 Kentucky

Penn State comes back to edge No. 12 Illinois

Roundup

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

The stretch run of the NBA season has arrived. It’s time for the playoff push

Analysis: Amid a wide-open playoff race, a wide-open NBA MVP race might be brewing as well

Former Houston Rockets star Robert Reid dies at 68 after battle with cancer

MLB/Baseball

Gleyber Torres enters final season ahead of free agency saying ‘I want to be a Yankee for life’

NFL/XFL/USFL/Football

Patriots captain Slater announces retirement after 16 seasons, 3 Super Bowl titles

Fields says he wants to stay in Chicago and is tired of the trade talk

Patriots’ Mayo’s new staff a mix of youth, vets and connections to executive Wolf

Shaq gives heartfelt retirement advice to Jason Kelce: 'Accept It'

Police suspend domestic assault investigation into Ravens WR Zay Flowers

College Football

Alabama replacing football radio play-by-play legend Gold, school’s decision, no health issues

Gold ‘not retiring’

Buddy Teevens’ legacy: ‘Buddy was a force': The man behind The Manning Academy and the NFL's 'women's coaching tree' was an unsung football hero

With 12-team playoff set, CFP already discussing possibly more teams for 2026 and beyond

DeBoer becomes first Alabama football coach on social media, breaking from Nick Saban

Golf

LIV’s Joaquin Niemann is one of three players to receive a special invitation to the Masters

Column: Golf has a fractured landscape. Not even the majors can put it back together

Soccer

Milan forward Rafael Leão latest victim of racial abuse in Italian soccer

Messi gets an assist, Inter Miami opens MLS season with 2-0 win over Real Salt Lake

High Schools

The Hoosier Gym, home of the Hickory Huskers, still resonates with basketball fans

Boxing/UFC/MMA

Is UFC 300 headliner a letdown, or should we all have known better?

Scoreboard

NBA scores/games
Women’s college basketball

Men’s college basketball