Monday’s Report: GHSA playoffs, Mercer, Macon TD Club: Southwest/Windsor/ESPN’s Nowkhah, Mercer hoops; Falcons, UGA, Tech, Hawks, Braves; World Series, Freeze fired/college FB, NFL, MLB, NASCAR
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Around/About Central Georgia
A pair of Patriots and a Knight top Macon TD Club POTW
Two players from Southwest and one from Windsor are latest Macon Touchdown Club players of the week.
Back: Sophomore quarterback J.J. Wilson led the Patriots with a 9-for-18 night passing for 243 yards and two touchdowns in the 27-12 win over Jefferson County.
Lineman: Southwest senior Rinald Callaway covered many areas in the win, accounting for seven tackle, one for loss, and three interceptions. He caught four passes for 92 yards, and was 3 for 4 on PAT kicks.
Special teams: Windsor senior kicker Santiago Medina repeated after averaging 49.7 yards per punt with two droppin inside the 5. He was perfect on 5 PAT kick, and added 99 yards of offense on six plays in the 35-8 playoff win over Augusta Prep.
ESPN/SEC Network host Nowkhah at the Macon Touchdown Club
Dari Nowkhah of ESPN and the SEC Network is Monday’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.
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.
Army head coach Jeff Monken is next week’s speaker, followed by Will Muschamp.
Nowkhah grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma. He worked at TV stations in Montana, Nebraska, and Oklahoma before joining ESPN in 2004, and then the SEC Network in 2014.
Nowkhah and wife Jenn have had three biological children and an adopted child. They lost an infant son in 2011 to complications from an infection that compromised his heart, and started Hayden’s Hope, a foundation to help families with expenses due to children’s organ transplants, supporting organ donation, in his memory. They adopted Nahla two years before Hayden’s birth and passing.
November is National Adoption Month.
WBKB-Mercer opens season at UNC Asheville
MBKB-Mercer starts off at at No. 18 Tennessee
Around/About Georgia
Patriots hang on to beat Falcons after late extra point miss by Atlanta
Romo’s missed extra point proves to be the difference in Falcons’ loss
Smart praises Napier for building 'really good roster'
Family-affair win for Branch brothers
Key doesn’t hold back about brutal showing against NC State
What is Georgia Tech's most realistic path to the CFP after shock loss to NC State?
Mitchell scores 37 points as Cavaliers down Young-less Hawks
Braves’ Olson wins third Gold Glove Award of his career
MLB/World Series
Game 7 took fans everywhere in an off-the-rails thrill ride of the best baseball has to offer
Ohtani and Yamamoto make Japan proud helping Dodgers repeat
‘Lucky to have them': Roberts lauds Dodgers’ Japanese trio
Blue Jays reflect on cruel Game 7 loss to Dodgers: ‘I cost everybody a World Series’
Dodgers great Kershaw ends his career unaware at first that he won the World Series again
Key moments from the Dodgers’ wild Game 7 win over the Blue Jays
College Football/SEC
Auburn fires Freeze following 12th loss in his last 15 SEC games
‘I’ll carry the friendships with me always’
Players, former stars react to Freeze firing
Beamer explains why he fired OC Shula, South Carolina's play caller after 9 games
Vanderbilt rally fell shot as chance for statement road win turns into critical loss for Commodores
College Football/ACC
Cristobal blasts officials for controversial personal foul call
Swinney reacts to penalty in Clemson vs Duke loss: 'One of the worst calls I’ve ever seen'
Duke takes shot at Death Valley, Clemson using 'Spirit Halloween' after win
College Football
AP Top 25: BYU, Texas Tech and Notre Dame move into the top 10
Day answers if he saw extra motivation in Ohio State players to beat Jim Knowles
Nebraska QB Raiola will miss the rest of the season with an injury to his lower right leg
NFL/NFC
Stafford hits Davante Adams with 2 of his 4 TD passes while the Rams rout the Saints
Bears outlast Bengals for wild win on Williams’ TD pass to Loveland in final minute
McCarthy throws for 2 TDs and runs for a score in his return as Vikings beat Lions
Dowdle’s big day and Fitzgerald’s big kick give Panthers 16-13 win over Packers
NFL/AFC
Lawrence scores in OT and Jags’ Hamilton denies Raiders’ 2-point try
Allen has 3 TDs and Bills use sturdy defense to top Mahomes and Chiefs
Broncos rally to beat Texans with last-second field goal
Embattled Steelers defense forces 6 turnovers as Pittsburgh tops AFC-leading Indianapolis
Herbert shakes off a pick-6 as the Chargers beat skidding Titans
Darnold leads Seahawks to easy win over Commanders, who lose Daniels to arm injury
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
Trumpy, longtime Bengals player and NBC broadcaster, dies at 80
Bengals’ Jones becomes first player to return 2 kickoffs for touchdowns under new NFL rules
Baseball/MLB
Happ wins again as the Cubs earn a major league-high 3 Gold Glove awards
Bichette, Schwarber, Tucker among 137 who become free agents
College Basketball/Women
Tennessee dismisses Whitehorn from No. 8 Lady Vols after another arrest
No. 18 USC’s Davidson heads list of potential impact freshmen in women’s college basketball
NBA/Basketball
Embiid is fined $50,000 for a lewd gesture during a game against Boston
Gilgeous-Alexander scores 30 points to help keep Thunder unbeaten, Pelicans winless
Lakers beat Heat behind Doncic’s triple-double
Booker scores 28 and Wembanyama has off night as Suns hand Spurs their first loss
Roundup: Suns contain Wembanyama
Auto Racing
Larson wins second NASCAR championship, denying Denny Hamlin in overtime
Blaney wins NASCAR Cup Series finale at Phoenix after missing Championship 4
Hamlin's NASCAR championship dreams crushed by race-changing caution
Final Phoenix results, points for NASCAR 2025 season as Blaney wins finale, Larson wins title
Soccer
Bounga scores 2 goals, LAFC beats Austin 4-1, advances to Western Conference semis
Arfsten, Crew avoid elimination, beat Cincinnati 4-0 to force decisive Game 3
Hockey
Roundup: Leafs top Flyers but D Chris Tanev leaves by stretcher
Scoreboards