Saturday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes
Saturday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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Voice of Northside, and Houston County sports in general, quieted by cancer
Mike Davis was a longtime fireman, and member of the Warner Robins City Council. But thousands know him more as the Southern-twanged voice of Northside sports and as a founder of Sports Mic Radio in Houston County. Now, they mourn his death Saturday after a short bout with aggressive pancreatic cancer.
The 65-year-old broadcast the Warner Robins state title game in December, and assorted posts on his Facebook page were normal until a few days into 2019. Warner Robins mayor Randy Toms told reporters that Davis had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer only about a week ago, but there are indications of a serious diagnosis a few weeks earlier.
Perry football coach Kevin Smith, who spent nearly two decades at Northside, posted on Facebook that he “spoke with (Davis) right after Christmas when I found out about his condition.” A post on Jan. 12 from Southside Baptist Church, a major sponsor of events on Sports Mic radio, noted on Facebook that among the recent prayer requests it received, one was for Davis, who was “in the hospital in Atlanta.” A Jan. 3 post on Davis’s Facebook page told him the authors were “thinking about you & praying for you.”
After several days in an Atlanta hospital, he was moved to the Hazel Colson Hospice House in Perry.
He is survived by his wife Diane, son Blake, daughter-in-law Amy, and granddaughter Stella.
Davis, a Warner Robins native and Northside grad, was in his eighth year on the city council after retiring as a firefighter. He helped start Sports Mic Radio, which early on was broadcast on radio but grew into an Internet streaming operation that broadcast football games every Friday – except on rare occasions – for Northside, Warner Robins, Houston County, Veterans, and Perry, with at least one game on an area radio station and the rest of the local games online, giving fans of all five teams a chance to hear their team’s games.
Sports Mic grew to cover many other sports, and Davis broadcast different teams in different sports but was the Northside football voice. While he was associated most strongly with Northside, his support for all sports and teams in Houston County was renown.
Arrangements, as of Saturday night, were still pending.
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Georgia College men get big night, Mercer women get rolling
The Bobcats got a monster 3-point outing from Desmond Mitchell-LaFlam, and Mercer’s women overcame a slow start to cruise in the second half. Area/state colleges in the Scoreboard.
Georgia College’s Desmond Mitchell-LaFlam set the program mark with a perfect 3-point afternoon.
Photo: Georgia College