Tuesday's Report: Cochran Speedway; NCAA ⚾/UGA/Tech?Georgia Southern, Tech's national title, Braves, UGA business; SEC meetings, Bill Walton, NBA, MLB, NCAA⚾/🥎, racing, NFL, French Open
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Around/About Central Georgia
Cochran Speedway is on the selling block
Around/About Georgia
Georgia gets high seed in NCAA Regionals
Georgia Tech gets bid, to hit up Athens
Georgia Southern just misses NCAA bid
The Eagles posted some resume items online: Ranked 38th in the KPI (9 SBC teams are ranked in the top 63); the Sun Belt’s RPI as a conference is fifth, above the Pac-12; Warren Nolan ranks GSU with the 35th-toughest strength of schedule and 18th-toughest non-conference strength of schedule; GS has defeated 5 ranked teams & has 8 wins over teams ranked ahead of it in Warren Nolan RPI; GS has a combined 13 Quad 1 and 2 wins; Eagles have a +20 run differential in May and +13 in postseason.
Rookie lefty Parker logs another strong start as the Nationals beat Morton and the Braves
How will Braves' replace Acuna? 'It's a day-to-day thing'
MGLF-Tai wins NCAA golf title and helps Georgia Tech advance
BSB-Tech’s Hall talks about making the tournament
MBKB-Georgia hires Boston College assistant
UGA Athletic Board: New budgets, beer, roster caps and schedule questions
Column- True confession -- I had no idea Anthony Edwards would be this good
SEC Spring Meetings
Plenty to discuss at SEC spring meetings
Major questions loom around House settlement
Sankey sounds off on UGA QB Rashada suing Florida’s Napier
Rashada-Billy Napier among lawsuits representing changing times
SEC's Sankey would 'welcome' national standard
Bill Walton, 1952-2024
Cancer claims legend Walton at 71
Basketball legend, broadcast beast: Bill Walton lived life to the fullest
Magic with the ball and with words
Bilas remembers the player, man, and friend
Tributes pour in for basketball icon Bill Walton: 'The Luckiest Guy in the World'
Hoops and hyperbole, Bill Walton was a genius with both
Walton was San Diego's champion, cheerleader -- and soul
Walton the broadcaster and some of his most memorable moments on the mic
NBA/Basketball
Celtics fend off Pacers in final seconds to return to NBA Finals
Closers Doncic and Irving have Mavs on verge of sweeping Wolves in West finals
Luka and Kyrie are worthy of praise, but how much?
WNBA
Is Clark behind WNBA's new popularity? Reese says it's more than 'just one person'
MLB/Baseball
Controversial umpire Angel Hernandez set to retire from MLB immediately: reports
Verlander passes Greg Maddux to enter top 10 of MLB all-time strikeout list
As Dallas competes for NBA and NHL crowns, the Texas Rangers are struggling with their title defense
Counsell’s return to Milwaukee includes thank-you message and chorus of boos
Angels win 'most embarrassing injury of 2024' award
College Baseball/NCAA Tournament
Full regional schedule and times
D1baseball.com’s final projections
Baseball America’s final projections
Vols earn No. 1 overall seed for NCAA baseball tourney
Takeaways from bracket reveal as bubble decisions, host sites draw ire
ACC and SEC each get 5 regional host sites for the NCAA baseball tournament
Breaking down the field & regional hosts
Troy baseball left out of NCAA tournament field of 64
College Softball
Texas enters WCWS as No. 1 seed
Auto Racing
Charlotte Motor Speedway changing its roval course for playoffs to create more passing opportunities
Newgarden earns record prize for second straight win at Brickyard
Ericsson’s early Indianapolis 500 exit typifies wild day full of crashes and other problems
Larson’s bid to run The Double ends in disappointment after bad weather intervenes
NFL/UFL/USFL/XFL/Football
Commanders kicker McManus and the Jaguars are being sued in civil court
Barkley was a little starstruck stepping into his first huddle with Eagles: 'A lot of talent'
Butker addresses commencement backlash; 'a shocking level of hate'
Kelce praises Butker as teammate, disagrees with nearly everything, cites own family’s values
College Sports
Softball rules, but many women’s sports at Oklahoma are thriving
ACC revenue to $706.6M, lags behind B1G, SEC
Big 12 paid ex-commish $17.2M in his final year
Tennis
14-time champion Nadal loses in the French Open’s first round to Zverev
Nadal’s possible French Open farewell draws fans from all over the world
Osaka has more going on than tennis at the French Open: Her daughter is learning to walk
NHL/Hockey
Robertson powers Stars over Oilers 5-3 for lead in Western Conference final
Boxing/UFC/MMA
Tyson ‘doing great’ after falling ill during weekend flight from Miami to Los Angeles
Scoreboards