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Monday's Report: Alumni Update: Mount de Sales/Upson-Lee; Remember the Atlanta Olympics, Braves streak done; Olympics: Lyles by a hair, good swim night, 3x3 so-so; MLB, NFL, college šŸˆ/news

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Alumni Update

Mount de Salesā€™ Williams talks Georgia Southern, gnats

Upson-Leeā€™s Walker learning to play without thinking

 

Around/About Central Georgia

 

Around/About Georgia

Column: 28 years later, we recall Atlanta's 17 Olympic days

Clemson opener looms for Georgia

Long streak broken after Marlins blank Braves, Fried at Truist

United drops point in penalty shootout against Santos Laguna ending Leagues Cup run  

Olympics/Olympic sports

Banned governing body thatā€™s fueling outcry on Olympic boxers has Russian ties and troubled history

Lyles wins Olympic 100-meter sprint by five-thousandths of a second

On a wild final night of swimming, U.S. sets two world records, edges Australia in gold-medal race

US men eliminated from 3x3 competition after going 2-5 in pool play while missing Jimmer Fredette

Finke defends Olympic gold in swimming's 1,500M, breaks world record

Djokovic finally adds an Olympic gold to his resume by beating Carlos Alcaraz in a taut final

U.S. womenā€™s 3x3 team wins 5 straight to shake off awful start and reach semifinals at Paris Games

Scheffler gets the gold in a thriller with a 62

Said fails again in his quest for a medal. Itā€™s been a miserable campaign for French gymnastics

US extends womenā€™s hoops Olympic win streak to 58 games with win over Germany; quarters next

van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player convicted of rape, eliminated from Olympics

Alcaraz says pressure of playing for Spain got to him in loss to Djokovic in Olympics final

Day 9: American men finally winning gold medals after women opened 9-0 lead

Mondayā€™s schehedule Aug. 5: Simone Biles wraps up competition with two events

Complete list of medal winners

Fans cheer on Imane Khelif during win after she faced days of online abuse

Crowd favorite 'pommel horse guy' wins bronze

Biles is ready to fight anyone and anything, social media included

Swords provides glimpse of Canada basketballā€™s future with Olympic appearance

Embiid hears the booing from the French fans. And heā€™s embraced it at the Paris Olympics

Not even a gold medal can get Hungarian swimmer Milák to break his silence

Biles doesnā€™t rule out the 2028 Olympics after winning the gold in vault. ā€˜Never say neverā€™

Baseball/MLB

Freeman and his wife say their 3-year-old son is home from hospital after 8-day ICU stay

Twins to place Joe Mauer statue outside Target Field

García Jr.'s homer, Woodā€™s bases-loaded triple lift Nationals past Brewers

Canning and Angels relievers shut down Mets

Wheelerā€™s strong start snaps Philliesā€™ losing streak

Pedersonā€™s HR rallies Diamondbacks to a 6-5 win; no-decision for Skenes

Roundup

College Football/South

Florida RB Montrell Johnson considered week to week after arthroscopic knee surgery

DeBoer raves to start to Alabama football practices

What Auburnā€™s Speaks and Jones said about earning football scholarships

NC State athletics are thriving. Can football rise to the occasion?

College Football

10 coaches under the most pressure

Michiganā€™s Moore faces allegations of NCAA violations in sign-stealing investigation, AP sources say

Football/NFL/USFL

How Vikings' Jefferson is making himself 'injury proof'

For NFL kickers, new kickoff rules mean abandoning old habits, but also new opportunities

In return from injury, Colts want Richardson to protect himself ā€” 'but only to some degree'

Hopkins wonā€™t require surgery for knee injury, Titansā€™ Callahan says

Nos. 1-20: They're the NFL's best today, but as prospects they were only OK

Golf

East Lake remake almost done, and the changes are profound

College Basketball

Auburn schedules another nonconference game against national powerhouse

College Sports, the changing landscape

Q&A: Hello, Big Ten. UCLA's Martin Jarmond says 'we're ready' as move becomes official

Practice admission, autographs boost NIL funding

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games