September's Todays
Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017
New stuff in the Central Georgia Sports Report to read today will be forthcoming, although a look at area and state college football games was posted Friday, and may be updated. Take a look at the high school football “where are they all at this point?” feature.
Coming later today: an abbreviated Friday night review with Central Georgia scores (updated, 12:30 p.m.), an early-afternoon Loughdmouthings to be updated after dinner. Reading Material from the last day or two may be updated as well.
Note content will have an “Updated” note at the top when warranted.
And thanks for visiting on Day One. And today.
Updated, 12:30 p.m.: Friday Night Review, with Warner Robins video.
Weather
When the overnight low is good for July … High in the low-mid 80s, humidity 70-85 through the morning, sub-50 in the afternoon, overnight low in low-mid 60s, little to no chance of rain.
FYI
The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame has its latest class set, and there are some names: former Crawford County and Kentucky basketball standout Kenny Walker, Atlanta Falcons and United owner Arthur Blank, Georgia football standout and longtime NFLer Champ Bailey, Atlanta pro sports entrepreneur Tom Cousins, longtime Georgia golf coach Chris Haack, former Georgia assistant and Auburn star defender Tracy Rocker, Olympic gold medal winner (track) Angelo Taylor, and Terry Moody Hancock, the first women to get a full athletic scholarship at Georgia.
The ceremony at the Macon City Auditorium is Feb. 24, 2018. See www.gshf.org for more info.
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Eli Mashburn has had two field goals in the final 10 seconds to win games this year for Warner Robins, from 35 yards to beat Peach County and Coffee, a pair of upper-level teams, the latter on Friday. Consult him for Powerball numbers tonight.
Reading/Viewing Material
If you need some eye hydration, ESPN's story on Iowa's football fans and kids at the Iowa Children's Hospital will take care of it.
Washington State, current home to former Bleckley County standout Willie Taylor, and wacky coach Mike Leach got a big win Friday night.
This is what Taylor is dealing with in a head coach, quite a change from his days in Cochran with head coach Tracy White and staff.
Louisville has an interim basketball coach awaiting an interim athletics director.
Coming Up
The Falcons
Atlanta hosts Buffalo at 1 p.m. on CBS on Sunday.
On Buffalo's roster: Cordy Glenn, Georgia; Reid Ferguson, Buford/LSU; Mike Tolbert, Douglasville/Coastal Carolina.
Macon Touchdown Club
The speaker for Monday, Oct. 2 is Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson. High school teams of the week are Howard and Central Fellowship. Maconite Chris Hatcher is next, on Oct. 9, with Rutland as the prep team.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Cost is $30 for non-members, who needn't be accompanied by a member.
For more info, http://www.macontouchdownclub.com/
Who's playing?
Monday Night Football has Washington at Kansas City at 8:30 p.m., ESPN.
Roster notables for Washington: Mack Brown, MLK, Florida; Josh Harvey-Clemons, Lowndes/Louisville; Anthony Lanier, Jenkin/Alabama A&M; Preston Smith, Stephenson/Mississippi State; Joshua Holsey, Creekside/Auburn; Tyler Catalina, Georgia.
Former Northside and Georgia State standout Robert Davis is on the practice squad.
Kansas City just added former Georgia Tech kicker Harrison Butker to the team.
Also on the Chiefs' roster: Demarcus Robinson, Peach County/Florida; Tyreek Hill, Coffee/West Alabama; Cameron Erving, Colquitt County/Florida State; Allen Bailey, McIntosh County Academy/Miami; Ukeme Eligwe, Stone Mountain, Georgia Southern; Justin Houston, Statesboro/Georgia; Terrance Smith, Southwest DeKalb, Florida State; D.J. White, Union Grove/Georgia Tech.
Former Northside standout Steven Nelson is on injured reserve.
On Thursday, Oct. 5: New England at Tampa Bay.
Contact us
Put us on your mailing list at centralgasports@gmail.com to get the word out.
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Friday, Sept. 29, 2017
Welcome to the Central Georgia Sports Report and the debut.
Mobile users, use the three bars to the upper left for the table of contents.
Nothing flashy here right now, just a gathering of information and reading material for Central Georgians, although there’s more than Central Georgia content, and will be more. But the goal is a variety of information and reading material. No blasting video ads, no time-killing page-loading interruptions.
At first, as this work in progress keeps working on progress, the coverage will be primarily football, although notebooks will have other sports as other sports’ teams and coaches make information available.
Send any and all information, box scores, rosters, schedule changes, etc. to centralgasports@gmail.com, and we’ll get it up as soon as possible.
Twitter? Yessir, at @CentralGaSports. It’s live, so go follow, and find out when there are updates. A Facebook page is on the list.
Take a stroll over the weekend and get a look at what the plan is, what we hope to have, including little things, like area/state kids you might see on Thursday or Monday night in the NFL game, and alumni update, things like that. There's some slightly older stuff under "Recent Coverage" to peruse.
New stuff under “This Week’s Content”:
A look at Central Georgia prep football teams at this point, which is near the midway stage. Also, high school standings, scores and stats other than Thursday night) have been updated.
On campus: taking a peek at the weekend’s college action for Georgia, Georgia Tech, Mercer, Fort Valley State, and others.
With its own page, the first Loughdmouthings column in a long, long time.
Weather
Mostly sunny, high 89, low 66, humidity 56 percent, little chance of precipitation
In Case You Missed It
Northside got three field goals from Cory Munson – of 20, 45 and 35 – and three interceptions to beat Macon County 23-0 last night, and Perry had little trouble on its road trip to Dougherty, cruising to a 49-8 win.
Chicago was not sharp in losing to Green Bay last night.
COMING UP
The Falcons
Atlanta hosts Buffalo at 1 p.m. on CBS on Sunday.
On Buffalo's roster: Cordy Glenn, Georgia; Reid Ferguson, Buford/LSU; Mike Tolbert, Douglasville/Coastal Carolina.
Macon Touchdown Club
The speaker for Monday, Oct. 2 is Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson. High school teams of the week are Howard and Central Fellowship. Maconite Chris Hatcher is next, on Oct. 9, with Rutland as the prep team.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Cost is $30 for non-members, who needn't be accompanied by a member.
For more info, http://www.macontouchdownclub.com/
Who's playing?
Monday Night Football has Washington at Kansas City at 8:30 p.m., ESPN.
Roster notables for Washington: Mack Brown, MLK, Florida; Josh Harvey-Clemons, Lowndes/Louisville; Anthony Lanier, Jenkin/Alabama A&M; Preston Smith, Stephenson/Mississippi State; Joshua Holsey, Creekside/Auburn; Tyler Catalina, Georgia.
Former Northside and Georgia State standout Robert Davis is on the practice squad.
Kansas City just added former Georgia Tech kicker Harrison Butker to the team.
Also on the Chiefs' roster: Demarcus Robinson, Peach County/Florida; Tyreek Hill, Coffee/West Alabama; Cameron Erving, Colquitt County/Florida State; Allen Bailey, McIntosh County Academy/Miami; Ukeme Eligwe, Stone Mountain, Georgia Southern; Justin Houston, Statesboro/Georgia; Terrance Smith, Southwest DeKalb, Florida State; D.J. White, Union Grove/Georgia Tech.
Former Northside standout Steven Nelson is on injured reserve.
On Thursday, Oct. 5: New England at Tampa Bay.
Reading Material
Brian Snitker’s future remains a hot topic and unclear and maybe done.
The staff’s future is iffy, too.
It’s a mess in Louisville, bigly, and elsewhere.
Butch Jones is getting a little clenched in Knoxville
What does Derek Jeter have in common with George Steinbrenner?
LSU is a little confused mess, too
Have some good reading material? Send the link to centralgasports@gmail.com.
Monday, Sept. 25, 2017
Weather: Sunny, high 88, low 62, 10 pct. chance of precip, 60 pct. humidity.
New stuff in the Central Georgia Sports Report to read today:
High school standings are updated and ready to go.
Loughdmouthings:
This week's coverage: Sunday Morning Quarterback,
Macon Touchdown Club
Tonight's speaker is former college and NFL head coach Jerry Glanville, and the high school team of the week is Northeast.
Former Georgia Tech head coach George O'Leary was originally scheduled to speak.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Cost is $30 for non-members, who needn't be accompanied by a member.
For more info, visit here.
Who's playing?
Tonight's Monday Night Football game has Dallas at Arizona at 8:30 p.m., ESPN.
There's nobody from Central Georgia on either roster, but we should enjoy any chance we can to watch Larry Fitzgerald play and see if Ezekial Elliott displays any emotion.
Worth noting: Neither team has a player on the active roster who played college football in Georgia. But there are players from LSU-Shreveport (they got football?), Hampton, Saginaw Valley State, Hillsdale, and Pittsburg State.
Coming Up
Next week's Touchdown Club speaker is Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson. High school teams of the week are Howard and Central Fellowship. Maconite Chris Hatcher is next, on Oct. 9, with Rutland as the prep team.
The GHSA state softball playoffs start in late October.