Thursday's Report: Scoreboard, Middle Georgia State, Mercer, Georgia College, Fort Valley State; Falcons, Braves, Hawks, state 🏀; NFL/Super Bowl, college 🏀, college 🏈, 🎾, NBA, MLB, Olympics, ⚽, ⛳
📰S📰C📰O📰R📰E📰B📰O📰A📰R📰D
High Schools
(Teams: Please post first and last names, and names are preferred over social media handles (they know who they are, most people don’t) and post team names, not mascots)
🏀🏀🏀Girls Basketball🏀🏀🏀
Cross Creek 53, Howard 19
East Laurens 53, Washington County 45
Putnam County 72, Lamar County 58
Troup County 74, Upson-Lee 45
Westside 59, Morgan County 41
🏀🏀🏀Boys Basketball🏀🏀🏀
Cross Creek 84, Howard 39
Morgan County 69, Westside 44
Troup County 66, Upson-Lee 61
Putnam County 87, Lamar County 63
Washington County 64, East Laurens 56
Sophomore Kaden Collins led the Golden Hawks with 18 points, while senior Zion Cordy and freshman Braylon Yorker added 16 points each, sophomore Aiden Watts grabbing 7 rebounds and blocking 3 shots.
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
(Colleges: Please post links to stories with social media posts, and team names instead of logos in graphics)
🏀🏀🏀Basketball🏀🏀🏀
M-Georgia College 75, Middle Georgia State 61
W-Middle Georgia State 56, Georgia College 55
Pro
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀
📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰
Honor Roll
PBC WSOC: Middle Georgia State puts 5 on academic team
PBC MSOC: Five Knights make All-Academic
Four Bears tabbed to Perfect Game preseason SoCon team
BSB-Bobcats selected fifth in PBC poll, Phillips named to preseason All-PBC team
Around/About Central Georgia
WBKB-Middle Georgia State knocks off Georgia College in thriller
MBKB-Georgia College holds off Middle Georgia State
Weather forces changes to baseball, softball openers this weekend
Around/About Georgia
What we learned from Stefanski's introduction as head coach
The case for Bijan Robinson as AP Offensive Player of the Year
Stefanski on the state of the quarterback position in Atlanta
MLB's top 5 breakout teams for 2026: A healthier Braves squad? A bounce-back in Baltimore?
2025 Atlanta Falcons roster recaps
Hebron Christian’s title-winning coach resigns for second straight year
Replacing him didn’t take long
Celtics fall flat vs. Hawks in largest home loss since November
State college basketball
Gillespie scores 21, Tennessee beats Georgia in OT for Barnes’ 850th career win
Cleaveland's three gives Eagles 70-67 win over Southern Miss
Kennesaw State wins thriller over WKU
Doyle scores 21, Bellarmine downs West Georgia
College Sports, the changing landscape
Judge, an Alabama donor, recuses himself from Charles Bediako’s eligibility case against the NCAA
Judge from Miles murder case takes over Bediako’s NCAA lawsuit
NFL/Coaching Carousel
Browns pick former UGA assistant Monken
Jets 'reached out' to Jon Gruden about potential role, per report
Vikings’ Jones is finalizing a deal to be Washington’s DC
Broncos fire OC Lombardi, 2 more assistant coaches
Bills don't have history on their side with Joe Brady hire
NFL/Super Bowl
Vorel: Seahawks’ Darnold will accept apologies from the doubters now
Tough coaching helped Maye flourish in his second season
Patriots’ latest Super Bowl run can put cap on improbable turnaround
Macdonald and Vrabel lead Seahawks and Patriots to Super Bowl in quick turnarounds
NFL/AFC
Nix ‘predisposed’ to inevitable ankle injury
'Pittsburgh is my world': Emotional McCarthy
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
'Insane ...': Mahomes leads reactions to Belichick missing first-ballot Hall of Fame nod
Column-If Belichick isn't a first-ballot Hall of Famer, nobody - especially not Brady -is
College Basketball/SEC/ACC/South
Hall scores 31, Overton adds 25 as Auburn overcomes 14-point deficit, beats Texas
Florida State builds big first-half lead, holds off Cal
Hubbard and Ballard pace Mississippi State in win over LSU
Florida State builds big first-half lead, holds off Cal
Enis’ 25 lead South Florida past Tulane
Reneau, Donaldson lead Miami over Stanford
UAB secures victory against UTSA
Moutaouakkil and Jacksonville State knock off Florida International
College Basketball/Women
Ziebell leads UConn to 50th consecutive Big East regular-season victory
Foul trouble can’t stop Betts in No. 2 UCLA’s win over Illinois
Crooks’ 33 points and 12 rebounds lead Iowa State past No. 21 Texas Tech
College Basketball/Men
Pitino honored by St. John’s for reaching 900 career wins
Hall scores 31, Overton adds 25 as Auburn overcomes 14-point deficit, beats Texas
Flemings scores 25, Emanuel Sharp has 23 as No. 10 Houston beats TCU
Haugh and Rueben Chinyelu lead No. 19 Florida to rout of South Carolina
No. 25 St. John’s routs Butler for 7th straight win
College Football/SEC/ACC/Southeast
Mensah joins Miami after legal battle with Duke
Why Alabama, Georgia, Texas are candidates to be SEC's overrated teams
College Football
10 schools with best chance to be next first-time college football national champion
Hall of Famer Patterson feels revitalized in his coaching return as USC’s DC
Tennis
Feeling disrespected, Djokovic plans on ‘creating my own history’ in Australian Open semifinals
A powerful rivalry: Sabalenka and Svitolina set for Australian Open semifinal showdown
Swiatek, Pegula echo Gauff: Players need privacy
Shelton says if he thinks he’s actually improving after defeat to Sinner in straight sets
NBA/Basketball
Wembanyama shares thoughts on Minnesota, being 'a foreigner' in US
Wembanyama scores 28 points to lead Spurs past Rockets
Golden State buries Utah behind a flurry of 3-pointers
Cavaliers spoil James’ return, riding big 3rd quarter to romp
Baseball/MLB
MLB's top 5 breakout teams for 2026: A healthier Braves squad? A bounce-back in Baltimore?
Tampa Bay Rays’ new stadium proposal: What we know so far
Hockey
Panarin won’t play for the Rangers through the Olympic break
Blue Jackets beat Flyers for third straight win
Golf
Reed is leaving LIV Golf. He can return to the PGA Tour in September
Koepka gets a fresh start at a familiar place in Torrey Pines
OWGR set to meet this week. A decision whether to let in LIV Golf could be near
LIV changes include more money for teams and 10 more spots to secure status
Soccer
Champions League: Who has qualified, who is in the playoffs and who is out
Goalkeeper’s stoppage-time header sends Benfica to Champions League last 16
US player Tillman scores unusual 1st goal and impressive 2nd in Champions League for Leverkusen
Olympic Sports
Relive 'Miracle on Ice' run at 1980 Olympics with new Netflix documentary
Maxim Naumov heads to Olympics, hoping to honor his parents and the others killed in airline crash
Boxing/UFC/MMA/WWE
Tyson Fury coming out of retirement in April to fight Arslanbek Makhmudov
Scoreboards