Wednesday's Report: Scoreboard: playoffs; Macon TD Club/Smart, Houston County's Burress, Honor Roll (MGSU); Braves/Sale, Georgia State, Falcons; College W&M 🏀/📰/ 🏈, NFL, NBA, MLB, golf
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Alumni Update
Houston County’s Burress sets record at Tech: 4 bombs
Signings
Brentwood’s Carson Everett has signed to play baseball at Emmanuel.
Honor Roll
SSAC tennis: Middle Georgia State’s Gonfaus and Carrizo
Around/About Central Georgia
Public tickets for Kirby Smart visit going on sale
Tickets to the public for the visit of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart to the Macon Touchdown Club’s jamboree in less than three weeks are almost on sale.
The club will have windows of opportunity on Thursday, from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at the Rumford Center at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth on Pierce Ave.
Cost for tickets is $50, cash or check. Funds go toward the club’s scholarship fund.
The club has another option. If interested in joining the club for 2024, the cost is $250, and will include a free ticket to the jamboree and then have 2024 taken care of.
BSB-Mercer holds on to nip FAMU
Around/About Georgia
'Hand me the ball': Sale dominant in spring debut
Breaking down the battle for the Braves' bench
Takeaways from McGee’s intro meeting at Georgia State
McGee has lessons galore from Smart
Johnson has 22 points as Hawks never trail in runaway win over Jazz
BSB-Houston County’s Burress sets record at Tech: 4 bombs
Falcons release TE Smith, gain $6.5 million in cap space
MBKB-LSU blows lead, holds off Georgia
Georgia promotes Hunt to succeed Diaz, take over men’s tennis
College Football
Bama’s Smith to Auburn’s Newton: 'It ain't ever gonna be y'alls time'
Column-Why Heupel having to hire two assistants isn't a big deal
Who's the latest key person that Ohio State football has plucked from Alabama?
Clemson’s Capehart back with team after gun, traffic charges handled through pre-trial intervention
Saban talks about being a civilian, what he misses
Women’s College Basketball
Meet Grace Beyer, the small-school scoring phenom Iowa star Caitlin Clark might never catch
No. 1 South Carolina heads into the final week of the regular season still unbeaten
Men’s College Basketball
Column-Who's to blame for court-stormings? Everyone. And NCAA is too feckless to act — per usual
Texas rolls over Texas Tech in game delayed by fans throwing objects onto floor
Sheppard’s runner with under a second left sends No. 16 Kentucky past Mississippi State
BYU ends No. 7 Kansas’ 19-game home win streak
Clemson uses balanced attack and put clamps on Hinson, Pitt
Watkins scores 19, Florida State jumps out to an early lead and cruises
Manjon scores 22, hits late FTs to help Vanderbilt beat Arkansas
Burton’s career-high 31 points help Notre Dame sink Wake Forest following its big win over Duke
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Maxed out: Strus sinks 59-footer at the final horn, sending Cavaliers to 121-119 win over Mavericks
Edwards scores 34 as Wolves beat Spurs
MLB/Baseball
Ohtani shows he’s “built differently,” slugs 2-run HR in first exhibition game with Dodgers
Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah hits 3 batters in first spring training start
NFL/USFL/ XFL
Chiefs’ Reid expresses sorrow over parade shooting, offers hope to avoid future tragedies
With busy offseason looming, Buccaneers face myriad questions about re-signing players
Effort to have guardian appointed for Houston Texans owner dropped after son ends lawsuit
Auto Racing
Saurez, NASCAR got what they needed in Atlanta; Wallace a model of consistency?
Golf
PGA Tour starts the Florida swing. LIV Golf goes to Saudi Arabia
Column: Chris Kirk’s road to recovery included roommates and Yahtzee
Soccer
Mexico upsets USWNT in Concacaf W Gold Cup: Highlights of stunning defeat
US women fought to raise the level of soccer worldwide, and now the competition is much tougher
Scoreboards
NBA scores/games
Women’s college basketball
Men’s college basketball