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
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
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
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
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
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?
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