Friday's Report: GIAA/GHSA hoops, spring sports, Mayhem; Braves, Gurley/UGA/raises, Tech, Falcons, Hawks; College 🏀/🏈, NBA, NFL, MLB, soccer, golf, tennis, NHL, NASCAR
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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)
(Basketball: Postseason tournament scores/pairings on www.centralgasports.com)
🏀🏀🏀Girls Basketball🏀🏀🏀
GIAA semifinals
AAAA-Stratford 63, George Walton 48
AA-Southwest Georgia 47, Trinity Christian 40
AA-Brentwood 44, Gatewood 30
🏀🏀🏀Boys Basketball🏀🏀🏀
GIAA semifinals
AA-Central Fellowship 71, Heritage 59
AA-Brentwood 63, Furtah Prep 51
⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾
Bleckley County 16, East Laurens 0
Crawford County 5, Johnson County 2
Gatewood 10, Central Georgia Arts 6
Lanier County 13, Taylor County 0
Rutland 8, Northeast 6
Tattnall 3, Pinewood Christian 2
Washington County 10, Lamar County 0
⚽ ⚽ ⚽ Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
B-Central Fellowship 9, Vidalia Heritage 0
B-East Laurens 5, Jefferson County 1
G-Stratford 5, Trinity Christian-Sharpsburg 1
B-Stratford 2, Trinity Christian-Sharpsburg 1
James Biesterfield scored twice to lead the Eagles over the GHSA Class A opponent.
G-Swainsboro 5, Washington County 0
B-Troup County 2, Upson-Lee 1
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
(Colleges: Please post links to stories with social media posts, and team names instead of logos in graphics)
🏀🏀🏀Basketball🏀🏀🏀
W-ETSU 58, Mercer 51
Pro
🏒🏒🏒SPHL🏒🏒🏒
Pensacola 3, Macon 1
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀
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Around/About Central Georgia
Youngsters fill Coliseum for Mayhem battle
Around/About Georgia
Braves Post 11% increase in revenue in 2025 to $732 million
Todd Gurley: Today’s times, he’d have been a Dawg for only a year
Bobo gets big pay boost, Glenn Schumann also gets a bump
Key, Georgia Tech hire former HBCU coach
Riding the Ryan Express? Texan Elder finding extra velo after studying HOFer
From prospect to architect: Matt Ryan's combine comeback detailed by Kevin Stefanski
Snyder swaps former No. 1 pick Risacher for McCollum in Hawks starting lineup
NWSL Atlanta expansion team announces 7-year front-of-kit sponsorship deal with Georgia-based Aflac
State college basketball
No. 10 Louisville stays in ACC race with comfortable 69-50 win at Georgia Tech
Johnson scores 25, Kennesaw State knocks off Liberty
A Worthy Read
Leave on top or tears of disappointment? NFL stars grapple with retirement
Obituary
Bruce Froemming, record-setting major league umpire, dies at age 86
College Sports, the changing landscape
SEC, Big Ten study: Pooling TV rights ‘dangerously unworkable’ and not as profitable as suggested
College Basketball/SEC/ACC/South
Williams scores 20 and surpasses 1,500 career points as LSU top Tennessee
Shirley puts up 25 as Florida A&M takes down Southern
Faulkner posts 22 points, double-double as Samford knocks off VMI
Neely posts 18 points, 17 rebounds as UNC Greensboro knocks off Chattanooga
Lands pours in 22 points as Middle Tennessee defeats UTEP
Oriol’s 26 lead North Florida past FGCU
Franklin, El Moutaouakkil lead Jacksonville State to OT win over Delaware
College Basketball/Women
Fudd, Sarah Strong lead UConn to 46th straight win and another 30-win season
Okot, Edwards lead way as No. 3 South Carolina defeats Missouri for its fifth straight SEC title
Blakes scores 35 to lead No. 5 Vanderbilt past No. 24 Alabama
Chavez scores 16 as No. 7 Oklahoma rolls past Arkansas
No. 12 Duke secure share of ACC title by beating Florida State
Hassett scores 15 on 5 3-pointers as No. 16 Kentucky win over Auburn
Florida beat No. 19 Ole Miss for 1st victory over ranked team this season
No. 21 North Carolina share scoring wealth in beating Virginia
College Basketball/Men
Former Virginia coach Tony Bennett joins Lakers as NBA draft adviser to GM Rob Pelinka
College Basketball TV Ratings: Tracking the Top 10 most-watched men’s games of the 2025-26 season
Oregon State’s Tinkle fired after 12 seasons
No. 13 Michigan State holds on to edge No. 8 Purdue
Broadcast
FCC seeks public comment as live sports shift from broadcast TV to streaming
NBA/Basketball
Former Virginia coach Tony Bennett joins Lakers as NBA draft adviser to GM Rob Pelinka
Hornets’ Kon Knueppel breaks NBA rookie record for 3-pointers in a season in just 59 games
NBA fines Anthony Edwards $25,000 for throwing a ball into the stands after the halftime buzzer
2026 Winter Olympics/Milan Cortina
Editorial: Team USA showed America at its best
Hayes: The outrage over Team USA's connection with Trump is dumb -- and it's what he wants
US hockey player Brady Tkachuk slams White House TikTok as ‘clearly fake’ after anti-Canada slur
US women’s hockey team has date in July with Flavor Flav in Vegas to celebrate gold medal victory
NFL Combine
NFL draft prospect Bud Clark explains trash-talking Bill Belichick with Jordon Hudson jab
Mendoza and other college stars who will skip drills at the NFL combine
Caleb Downs, Kenyon Sadiq may provide strong draft value for NFL teams at often undervalued spots
Sonny Styles, 2026 NFL Draft LB class looks to spark ailing position
Baseball/MLB
Cuba says 8 World Baseball Classic delegation members denied US visas
Quite a dinger for Giants newcomer Harrison Bader, leaving an dent on a food truck
Verlander and Valdez will get final payments of $31 million deferred money from Tigers in 2039
Calkins: Why the next year will be key for future of Major League Baseball
College Football/SEC/ACC/Southeast
Grading Swinney's offseason moves from tampering to Chad Morris
Franklin describes talks with Brent Pry about returning to Virginia Tech
Patrick Willis details rejection by Tennessee football, made him cry
College Football
NCAA proposes stiff penalties for programs that add transfers outside of two-week portal window
NFL/NFC
Bears grant linebacker Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek a trade
NFL/AFC
Monken, still in awe as Browns' new coach, reflects on Ravens tenure
Colts give injury-plagued QB Anthony Richardson permission to seek trade
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
NFL QB market, impacted by a thin draft class, features Cousins and maybe Tagovailoa and Murray, too
Commanders and Jaguars to host games in London next season, with Jacksonville playing twice
Auto Racing
Gabehart: Joe Gibbs Racing lawsuit is ‘punishing a former employee for daring to leave’
Golf
Smotherman leads the Cognizant Classic, making 6 straight birdies in a first-round 62
Opening round at the Cognizant Classic features bird feathers, shots from the mud and hole-outs
Reports: Italian golfer Pavan badly injured from fall down elevator shaft when car was not there
Koepka starts process of $5M charity donations for his return to PGA Tour
Hockey
Penguins captain Crosby out at least 4 weeks after Olympics injury
Matthew Tkachuk and Auston Matthews celebrate US hockey gold with ceremonial puck drop
Larkin scores his 2nd goal of game in OT to lift Red Wings past Senators
Late goals by Clifton and Chinakhov push the Penguins past Jack Hughes and the Devils
Marchand scores 2 as the Panthers reignite their playoff push vs. Maple Leafs with 5-1 win
Boxing/UFC/MMA/WWE
Video shows police responding to Vince McMahon's high-speed car crash
Scoreboards