Thursday's Report: HS/college scores, Georgia College, Mercer, More Cousins, Hawks, state hoops; NFL: Super Bowl, news, W&M college 🏀, college 🏈, MLB, NBA,, NHL, NASCAR, golf
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High Schools
🏀🏀🏀Girls basketball🏀🏀🏀
Dodge County 66, Jefferson County 24
Lyric Green, recognized for crossing the 2,000-point mark in 100 games, led Dodge County with 26. She’s averaging 20 points and 13.1 rebounds, 26 and 16 this season. Paige Ingram put in 17 points for the 12-10/7-4 Indians.
Johnson County 59, Hancock Central 38
Jones County 67, Stockbridge 51
Northeast 74, Southwest 43
Westside 55, Howard 23
🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀
Benedictine 65, Warner Robins 54
Dodge County 55, Jefferson County 49
Kyler Johnson led a balanced offense with 17 points< Gavin Hilburn adding 12 and Terrance Fordham 10 for Dodge County (13-9/8-3).
Hancock Central 71, Johnson County 52
Southwest 68, Northeast 37
Westside 58, Howard 45
The Seminoles celebrated Senior night, thanks to 17 from Joshua Harden and 14 from Cam Rembert, plus 13 from Christian Little.
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Georgia College 51, North Georgia 43
🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Georgia College 77, North Georgia 59
Samford 100, Mercer 79
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
Francis Marion 12, Georgia College 1; Francis Marion 4, GCSU 2
Pro
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀
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Around/About Central Georgia
WBKB-Georgia College takes down No. 5 North Georgia
MBKB-Green’s big night leads Bobcats
MBKB-Jones scores 23 and Samford downs Mercer
Around/About Georgia
Sugiura: A theory about Kirk Cousins' 'clerical error' explanation
Wembanyama hits decisive free throw as Spurs hold off Hawks in Fox's debut
What makes Gabe Harris Georgia’s most important defender entering 2025
MBKB-Georgia State earns 97-64 victory against UL Monroe
MBKB-Holiman scores 24 as Georgia Southern beats Louisiana
MBKB-Ognacevic scores 24 as Lipscomb knocks off West Georgia
NFL: Kansas City vs. Philadelphia
For Reid's Chiefs, the big game has become business as usual
The Philly Dawgs are ready to take a bite out of Mahomes and Chiefs in Super Bowl
Super Bowl secondary-ticket prices high but much less than last year’s game
Injury report: Eagles DT Jalen Carter and Chiefs WR Skyy Moore limited
Mahomes' legacy is already secure, but he wants even more — and is making a run at Tom Brady
Gregorian: Why Andy Reid's the perfect coach to lead Chiefs' historic three-peat quest
Super Bowl XVIII hero Marcus Allen recognizes something super in Eagles' Saquon Barkley
At this bar in the heart of South Philly, it’s Chiefs over Eagles who reign as fan favorites
From cheeseburger delivery man to architect of a dynasty: Chiefs GM Brett Veach keeps KC humming
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
NFL referees union calls allegations of bias toward the Chiefs ‘insulting’
Donald Trump wants to rid America of DEI. The NFL isn't playing along
49ers star tight end George Kittle is the NFL 2024 Salute to Service award winner
America's iconic sports home, the Superdome, shines again for Super Bowl LIX
Bills safety Micah Hyde announces his retirement after 11 NFL seasons
Conrad Dobler, who once was dubbed the NFL’s dirtiest player, had CTE, his family says
Goodell says more ‘work’ needs to be done before NFL contemplates a move to 18 games
NFL/Carousel
Titans hire Smith as defensive run game coordinator with Locust promoted
Vrabel’s new staff will include 11 from his time with the Titans
College Basketball/Women
No. 7 USC women bounce back from loss to Iowa by defeating Wisconsin
Sundell scores 27 and leads No. 12 Kansas State over No. 9 TCU
Shaw has career-high 22 points, No. 18 West Virginia women open with 18-0 run, defeat Kansas
UConn begins new chapter of historic rivalry against No. 19 Tennessee
College Basketball/Men
DeCock: With Leonard Hamilton's retirement, ACC's basketball coaching brain drain complete
Zeigler, Milicic return to lead No. 4 Tennessee past No. 15 Missouri
Proctor scores 16 to lead No. 2 Duke to 16th straight win, 83-54 over Syracuse
Allette’s double-double sends TCU past West Virginia for Dixon’s 500th career win
Anderson’s 30 lead Furman past Western Carolina
UNC Greensboro secures 76-61 win over Citadel
NBA
Butler is headed to the Golden State
Bucks are adding Kyle Kuzma and sending Khris Middleton to the Wizards in a trade
A win-win night? Heat follow up Jimmy Butler trade with victory in Philadelphia
Plaschke: Luka Doncic joins Lakers with bad baggage … and that's a good thing
Edwards scores 49 to lead Wolves over short-handed Bulls
Garland’s deep buzzer-beating 3-pointer gives Cavs 118-115 win over Pistons
Jackson scores 32 points, Morant has 26 as Grizzlies rout Raptors 138-107 for 4th straight win
College Football
Former Ohio State DC Knowles answers why he left for PSU
College Football/SEC/ACC/South
LSU’s Kelly rebuts claims made by ex-safety Greg Brooks Jr.'s family this week
College Football/Coaching carousel and moves
Former NFL coach Ron Rivera plans to head back to college to work at alma mater Cal
Baseball/MLB
Alonso stays with Mets, agreeing to $54 million, 2-year contract
Romano: Rays' signing of Ha-Seong Kim is one more example of MLB's broken system
Auto Racing
Bowman moves on from playoff penalty and plans to use it as motivation in ’25
NASCAR introduces a new rule that will award a point for the fastest lap in every race
Tennis
Halep announces her retirement at age 33 after two Grand Slam titles and a return from a ban
Gauff donates $100,000 to UNCF for a scholarship program at historically Black schools
Golf
Party on: Phoenix Open officials make changes to reign in some of the revelry
Kuchar withdraws from Phoenix Open after sudden death of his father
Hockey
Canucks sign defenseman Marcus Pettersson to 6-year, $33 million extension
Ovechkin has been role model his whole career. That goes beyond Washington and Russia
Boxing/MMA/UFC/WWE
Strickland's schtick is suddenly making a lot less noise ahead of UFC 312
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