The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Monday's Report: HS 🏈schedule, Russell Henley; UGA follow-ups galore, Braves fall, Dream win; MLB pennant races; College 🏈's busy weekend/SEC/ACC/nat’l, ESPN/DirecTV, US Open, Tour

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M-Mercer 0, North Florida 0

W-North Florida 2, Mercer 1

Pro

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Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 2, 11 inn. 

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Atlanta 80, Los Angeles 62

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Around/About Georgia

Newcomers blend in well on Georgia team that again looks like it has right stuff

Takeaways from Dogs and Tigers

UGA-Clemson by the numbers

Smart dazzled by Starks’ pick: ‘May be one of the best defensive football plays I’ve ever seen

Georgia's new transfer WRs make their mark

Phillies outlast the Braves in the 11th as Castellanos plays the hero

Charles, Howard power Dream over Sparks

Finish what we started': Atlanta as Final Four host

Baseball/MLB

Must-watch series over regular season's final month: Division races, wild cards on the line

White Sox add to their indignities by setting franchise record with 107th loss

Darren Baker, son of longtime manager Dusty Baker, called up by Nationals and gets 1st MLB hit

Swanson gets 4 hits as the surging Chicago Cubs beat the Washington Nationals

College Football/South

Napier doesn’t ‘have a ton of excuses’ after ‘embarrassing’ loss

Mullen appears to shade Napier during blowout

Tennessee fan gets into argument with wife live during Vols postgame radio show

Pavia's ability among lessons learned from Vanderbilt win over Virginia Tech

Beamer, South Carolina's offense have work to do

DeBoer far from only Alabama newcomer to shine in season-opening romp

Almost a year after righting a wrecked car, Louisville receiver Jadon Thompson catches 2 TD passes

Taylor scores three touchdowns to guide North Carolina Cental past Alabama State

Peasant’s score leads Middle Tennessee State to a thrilling win over Tennessee Tech

College Football

Southern Cal scores in final seconds for thrilling win over LSU

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Clemson’s feeble performance against Georgia confirms demise of Dabo’s Tigers

Week 1 winners and losers

Robert Morris CB pulls off wild one-handed rolling pick for early interception of the year candidate

New Penn State coordinator makes imprint in season-opening win over West Virginia

Transfer QBs Ward of Miami, Pavia of Vanderbilt and others make immediate impact with new teams

Saban curses on 'College GameDay' in response to Ohio State's $20 million team

Broadcast

ESPN networks, ABC and Disney channels go dark on DirecTV on a busy night for sports

Tennis

Gauff loses at the U.S. Open to Emma Navarro, ending her title defense with 19 double-faults

A wrong replay at the US Open leads a chair umpire to get a call wrong on a video review

Open is wide open on men's side. So we ranked who's most likely to win

Football/NFL/USFL

49ers’ Pearsall out of hospital after shooting during attempted robbery

Chiefs’ Andy Reid on new NBC in-game interviews: ‘I’ve got to do it ... but don’t expect much’

The Steelers have mangled the WR position -- and don't appear to have any plan in place

With 'crazy' Ravens schedule, NFL puts money above player safety

WNBA

Wilson has 41 points, 17 rebounds as Aces beat Mercury

Reese becomes WNBA’s single-season rebounding leader in loss to Lynx

Clark scores 28, Fever overcome Arike Ogunbowale’s record-tying 9 3s and beat Wing

Basketball/NBA

Cuban admits he didn't see Jalen Brunson as 'captain material' on Mavericks

Golf

Scheffler caps off record season with FedEx Cup title and $25 million bonus

Scheffler completes his tour de force

Ryu rebounds from 3rd-round meltdown to win the FM Championship

Auto Racing

Briscoe holds off Kyle Busch in Southern 500 to advance to NASCAR Cup playoffs

Truex Jr. makes NASCAR playoffs after crashing out early at Darlington

Hockey

Sudden death of ‘Johnny Hockey’ means more hard times for beleaguered Columbus Blue Jackets

College Sports, the changing landscape

National College Players Association opposes $2.8 billion NCAA-House settlement

David West, still fighting for athletes, objects to landmark House settlement with NCAA

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games