Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: GHSA playoff picture; Dodge County-SW canceled, Westside-Rutland Monday; Johnson a likable Masters champ; NFL, CFB, COVID
Sunday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.
ICYMI over the weekend:
Around/About Central Georgia
Macon TD Club welcomes Maconite Steve Dennis
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.
Stratford is the featured high school.
Dennis graduated from Central, where he helped the Chargers to the 1972 GHSA Class 3A state title game. He proceeded to Georgia, where he was defensive captain in 1978 and on the SEC’s all-academic team. He played in three bowl games for UGA.
His coaching career started at Windsor, and he moved on to Tennesee-Chattanooga as an assistant for four seasons.
Dennis joined the Auburn staff for eight seasons, then spent to back at Georgia. He worked outside of college sports from 1997-2002, and returned to Auburn as a coach for one year and then into a fund-raising role.
He was athletics director at Troy for seven years, starting in 2005 and expanding and improving many facilities as well as overseeing the program’s increasing success in the Sun Belt.
Dennis announced his resignation, a surprise, in July 0f 2012, effective at the end of that September.
He was Georgia Southern’s director of football administration from 2016-17.
His son Corey, who played at Georgia Tech, is quarterbacks coach at Ohio State and married to Urban Meyer’s daughter Nicki, who played volleyball at Tech.
Alumni Update
Around/About Central Georgia
Dodge County-Southwest shelved; Rutland-Westside Monday night
Ongoing COVID concerns have led to the cancellation of Friday night’s Dodge County-Southwest game in Eastman.
The move locks in Dodge County as the top seed in 3-AA (See related story). The Indians are looking for a possible opponent to make up for the sudden open date.
Westside and Rutland are on tap Monday night at Ed DeFore in 4-4A action. A Seminoles wins means Friday’s game with West Laurens is for third place in the region.
Around/About Georgia
Will Ridley be back this week?
Falcons winning with some D these days
Sports and COVID-19
Surges force Michigan to restrictions, HS playoffs on hold
Arizona State-Colorado shelved
Syracues’s Boeheim tests positive
College BKB travel is now much more complicated
NFL
Murray-to-Hopkins dazzles NFL, breaks Bills hearts
Seattle’s struggles continue in loss to Goff, Rams
What’s up with the Seahawks?
Chubb returns to Browns, and in style
Lions win on game-ending 59-yard field goal
Brees leaves, Jameis leads Saints
Newton, Pats beat Ravens, weather
Week off no problem for Roethlisberger
College Football
South Carolina dumps Muschamp, owes $13 mil
Around the nation/world
Johnson sets scoring record in winning Masters
April or November, the jacket fits
The ‘Dumb and Dumber’ brothers to champs
Four great rounds not great enough for Smith
Tennessee-Martin head BKB coach found dead