Thursday's Report: HS/college scores, Sports Report predictions, state Maxwell polls; Golfer Howell, Dream, Tech, UGA, Falcons, Braves; College 🏈HQ, NFL, MLB, soccer, tennis, NBA, NASCAR, golf

Thursday's Report: HS/college scores, Sports Report predictions, state Maxwell polls; Golfer Howell, Dream, Tech, UGA, Falcons, Braves; College 🏈HQ, NFL, MLB, soccer, tennis, NBA, NASCAR, golf

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High Schools

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Crawford County 8, Hawkinsville 0

Mary Persons 9, ACE 8

Peach County 12, Upson-Lee 4

Portal 10, Dublin 5

Stratford 6, Windsor 5

Taylor County 13, Rutland 0

Washington County 4, Bleckley County 3

🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫

⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

M-Central Georgia Tech 6, Andrew 3

🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐

FVSU 3, LaGrange 0 (25-14, 25-17, 25-16)

⛳⛳⛳ Golf ⛳⛳⛳

W-Branch/McGuire Invitational, Mercer

Pro

⚾ ⚾ ⚾MLB ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Chicago Cubs 3, Atlanta 2

🏀 🏀 🏀WNBA 🏀 🏀 🏀

Atlanta 88, Connecticut 72

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

Who’s going to win this week’s Central Georgia high school football games?

HS polls: Central Georgia teams in GHS Football Daily composite ranks, top area teams in state Maxwell computer rankings

 

Around/About Georgia

Georgia teenager Mason Howell produces feats and big moments in a summer he won’t forget

Dream beat the Sun to move into second place in WNBA

Tech set for whiteout and Clemson

Clemson preparing for possibility Georgia Tech uses two QBs

Georgia D aims to keep Tennessee O in check once again

Heupel praises Georgia, Stockton, notes physicality and turnovers

Georgia injury update

Tennessee injury update

Morris shares positive news on London, Darnell Mooney injuries

Falcons notes and stats

Atlanta injury report

Cubs get to Sale, outlast Braves to win series

 

A Worthy Read

 

Opinion

 

College Football/SEC

Missouri ‘just wanted to see if we could’ on play that got Big 12 refs suspended

Pittman on the benefit of one transfer portal window: 'You gonna give your wife two or three opportunities a year to leave you?'

Florida's loyalty to Napier looks like a terrible mistake

Napier defends 'everything that's been built' at Florida, ready to 'double down'

Beamer critical yet confident about South Carolina offense

Freeze addresses offensive issues before a ‘very good’ South Alabama team

What's at stake for South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers vs Vanderbilt

Lebby provides grim news on Mississippi State players

Kiffin went on a 'Nick Saban rant' about the transfer portal finally moving to one window

 

College Football/ACC

Four arrests made in connection with the shooting of FSU linebacker Ethan Pritchard, FDLE says

Castellanos has inspired Florida State as a leader

Brown claps back at Greg Olsen after calling postgame wind sprints 'performative'

Belichick has multiple trademark applications denied, New England Patriots major reason why

 

College Football

Picks: Sooners, Cyclones, Utes among Power Four teams making rare visits to G5 foes

Big Ten’s weak slate this week raises questions about nonconference scheduling strategies

Big 12 officiating crew removed from next assignment for not enforcing kickoff rule in Missouri win

Elko makes interesting comments on his return to South Bend

Indiana CB Louis Moore eligible to play 2 more games after reaching deal with NCAA to delay hearing

Day not a fan of potential move to single transfer window in January

Ohio football head coach incorrectly says Ohio State's Caleb Downs is a receiver

College Football/South

'All about us': South Florida won't back down under Alex Golesh

UCF announces offensive line coach Shawn Clark in stable condition after medical emergency

Alabama State's defense maturing week to week, what position is still looking for "that guy"?

Leavitt arrest: Charges against former USF head coach reportedly dropped

NFL/USFL/UFL/Football

New Jaguars DBs Lewis and Murray deliver Texas-sized performances in opener

Derrick Henry — still not washed — passes Jim Brown in rushing TDs with rumbling score in 100-plus yard 1st half

Short week could leave Packers at less than full strength on their offensive line Thursday

Raiders rookie Ashton Jeanty struggled in his NFL debut, but expectations remain high

Jaguars welcome increased workload for rookies Tuten and Allen following Bigsby trade

Packers and Commanders enter Thursday night matchup looking to build off season-opening wins

Packers’ Parsons compares Commanders’ Quinn to a father figure heading into matchup

Titans’ Callahan didn’t challenge call on a catch and his explanation doesn’t help

49ers’ Brock Purdy a ‘long shot’ to play Sunday due to toe injury, could miss multiple weeks

 Reid says emotional outbursts in loss to Chargers are ‘part of the game’

Pro Picks: Packers will edge out the Commanders

Titans hurt themselves and fail to help rookie QB Ward in season opener

Baseball/MLB

Tigers have had at least 8 employees accused of misconduct toward woman

Details of Aroldis Chapman’s $13.3 million, 1-year contract with the Boston Red Sox for 2026

All those young fill-ins are winning games and keeping Rangers in playoff contention

Kepler powers Phillies past skidding Mets 11-3; magic number down to 7

Kurtz, Butler power A’s past Red Sox 5-4, end Chapman’s hitless streak of 50 batters, 17 appearances

Ohtani’s next start for Dodgers set for crucial series against NL East-leading Phillies

Skenes surpasses 200 strikeouts for the Pirates in a 2-1, 10-inning loss to the Orioles

WNBA/Women’s basketball

Unrivaled women’s basketball league expands with new clubs and development pool

NBA/Basketball

Leonard reportedly wanted no-show payments from Raptors

 Ballmer claims ignorance over reported $28M Kawhi Leonard deal

Wembanyama and the Spurs launch a new ‘supporter’s section’ with tryouts this Sunday

College Basketball

NCAA bans 3 college basketball players for betting on their own games at Fresno St, San Jose St

Auto Racing

NASCAR’s Denny Hamlin advances to the Round of 12 and Max Verstappen dominates in F1

Harvick sounds off on widespread issues for NASCAR playoff field at Darlington

Golf

Tale of two cups: Ryder Cup has Seve and Europe, and Walker Cup has only American dominance

Schauffele has a good reason why he’s not at tournament with Ryder Cup team: He’s a father

Scheffler leads a Ryder Cup crew in Napa

Tennis

The self-written note that inspired Alcaraz to win US Open

Soccer

Fan detained after racially insulting Kylian Mbappé during Spanish league game

Hockey

NHL CBA establishes a $4M annual fund for retired players’ health care and wellness

Sidney Crosby understands why trade talk surrounds him as the Penguins keep losing

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games

College football scores

NFL scores