Friday's Report: Bleckley County's Mims, Bacon; Hawks/draft, Braves, Falcons; NBA, WNBA, MLB, colleges, NASCAR, golf, tennis, Olympics, soccer
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Forest City 9, Macon 2
The visitors took control early with 4 runs in the first and clinched it with a couple 2-run innings late.
Forest City outhit Macon 17-8, the Bacon getting 2-hit nights from Charlie Davis, Ben Tryon, and Charles Dean.
Macon hosts Forest City on Friday, visits Boone on Saturday and Forest City on Sunday, then hosts Florence on Tuesday.
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Alumni Update
Bleckley County’s Mims already surpassing expectations in Cincy
Around/About Central Georgia
Around/About Georgia
Hawks trade AJ Griffin to Rockets for 2nd round pick in 3-team deal including Heat
Column-Risacher doesn't have to be a savior for Hawks. He just needs to be good
Hawks trade AJ Griffin to Rockets for 2nd round pick in 3-team deal including Heat
Robert homers early & 5 pitchers lead the White Sox over Sale and the Braves
'He's amazing ...': Sale empties the tank, saves bullpen in loss
How Falcons OC Robinson is preparing as a first-time play-caller
Basketball/NBA
NBA teams more than make up for quiet 1st round with flurry of trades on second day of draft
Draft finally worth the longer wait for some players after moving to a two-day format
Draft recap from the league's first-ever Day 2
Clips save seat in war room as tribute to West
Smith hasn't heard from Barkley about retiring from broadcasting: 'We'll see'
Claxton (UGA), Nets finalizing four-year, $100 million extension: source
WNBA
Clark is finally figuring it all out — can she get better?
Sims scores 18 in her season debut, Wings snap 11-game losing streak
Reese ties double-double record but Wilson leads trio with at least 20 points as Aces top Sky
Baseball/MLB
Judge and Harper to start in All-Star Game as top vote-getters in first round of fan balloting
Harper hurts hamstring on final play of Phillies’ 7-4 loss to Marlins
College Baseball
The brutal lessons taught from Schlossnagle’s exit from Texas A&M to Texas are ugly
Schloss's Machiavellian move proving too shady even for Longhorn fans
Auto Racing
Busch has broken out of slumps like this before: Can he do it again?
Golf
Bhatia shoots 64 in Detroit to take 1st-round lead at Rocket Mortgage Classic
Yin and Thitikul form team of ex-No. 1s and share the lead in Dow Championship
Tennis
Wimbledon 2024: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff are taking over tennis
Hockey
Roenick gets into Hockey Hall of Fame after a lengthy wait. 2024 class includes 2 US women’s players
Meruelo backing out of ownership of Coyotes after land auction shelved, AP source says
Colorado’s MacKinnon wins Hart and Lindsay awards as the NHL’s top player
Oilers, GM Ken Holland part ways after 5 seasons following their trip to the Stanley Cup Final
College Sports
Edey, Clark named Big Ten Athletes of the Year
College Football
South Florida TE Teigan Martin killed in car crash in Minnesota
College Basketball
Staley to receive Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at ESPYS
College Sports, the changing landscape
The first legal objection to the $2.8B NCAA antitrust settlement plan comes from Houston Christian
Big East announces media rights agreement with Fox, NBC and TNT through 2031
California bill mandating college athletes' welfare withdrawn before vote
Football/NFL/USFL
Jury orders NFL to pay nearly $4.8 billion in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case for violating antitrust laws
Cobb, family 'lucky to be alive' after house fire
The Jags paid Trevor Lawrence, but is his supporting cast good enough?
Olympic sports
A fresh start for NBC Olympics: No more ‘plausibly live’ for Paris Games this summer
Soccer
Panama scores late goal, beats shorthanded Americans 2-1 at Copa America
Why Alex Morgan's Olympic exclusion is both a shock and understandable
Boxing/UFC/MMA
Late replacements Pereira and Prochazka face off in rematch for light heavyweight title in UFC 303
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