Monday's Report: Area colleges, Macon TD Club honorees; Falcons, Braves, UGA, Tech, Georgia Southern; College basketball, NBA, MLB, NFL, colleges, NASCR, golf, tennis, hockey

Monday's Report: Area colleges, Macon TD Club honorees; Falcons, Braves, UGA, Tech, Georgia Southern; College basketball, NBA, MLB, NFL, colleges, NASCR, golf, tennis, hockey

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Augusta 12, Georgia College 7

The Citadel 3, Mercer 2

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Columbus State 4, Middle Georgia State 1

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W-Florida State Match-Up, Mercer

M-Linger Longer, Mercer

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Around/About Central Georgia

Macon Touchdown Club honors area, state players at Jamboree

          New Auburn head coach Alex Golesh will get an up-front look at some of the top players in Central Georgia and the state at Monday night’s Macon Touchdown Club year-end jamboree.

          The club will honor players from the county, area, and state at the banquet at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth.

          Northeast quarterback Jordan Wiggins is the local Edgar Hatcher back of the year while Southwest’s Rinaldo Callaway – on campus at Rutgers – is the Bill Turner lineman of the year. Windsor’s Santiago Medina is the special teams player of the year.

          Paul Carroll of GIAA Class 4A state champion Stratford is the local Marvin Davis coach of the year.     

          West Laurens’ record-setting running back Ty Cummings, headed to Georgia Southern, is the state Elmo A. Richardon player of the year. Thomas County Central’s Justin Rogers, formerly of Jones County, is the Bobby Pope state coach of the year.

          The club’s state all-stars: Andrew Beard, Prince Avenue Christian; Elijah Patmon, Northside; Ta'Shawn Poole, Howard; Joshua Sam-Epelle, Douglas County; Ja'Bios Smith, Swainsboro; and Jaden Upshaw, Lee County.

Stratford’s state title team will also be recognized.

Around/About Georgia

Falcons plan to utilize Jalon Walker's off-ball versatility more in Year 2

Fuentes drawing comparisons to Strider in quest for rotation spot

Opening Day roster projection, Final edition

Bulldogs, Loflin dominate Linger Longer

State college baseball/softball

A&M thumps Georgia to avoid sweep

Tech pounces on Pitt for sixth series win

Georgia Southern pops Marshall for first Sun Belt W

College Basketball/SEC/ACC/South

UNC is evaluating its basketball program after another early March Madness exit under Hubert Davis

John Romano: Even with an NCAA loss, USF is a program on the rise. (Potentially)

What does another early March Madness exit mean for UNC basketball, Hubert Davis?

College Basketball/Men

Steele advocates for analytic scheduling change with high-majors

Vorel: Is Washington men's basketball doomed to mediocrity as NCAA Tournament misses pile up?

College Basketball/Coaching carousel and awards/teams

Providence brings in Bryan Hodgson from South Florida as men’s basketball coach

NBA/Basketball

Is LeBron James running out of records to chase? How his list of accomplishments keeps growing

Kevin Durant passes Michael Jordan for No 5 on NBA scoring list in Rockets’ win

Suns have 200th consecutive sellout, work to regain momentum as postseason approaches

Wizards guard Trae Young is out with multiple injuries, no timetable for return

Jokic posts his 35th triple-double as the Nuggets beat the Trail Blazers

Knicks rout Wizards to win their 6th straight and send Washington to its 16th straight loss

Roundup

Baseball/MLB

Phillies reliever Robert 'stable and alert' after suffering cardiac event

Mets veteran Manaea will open the season in a relief role rather than the starting rotation

Phillies agree to 6-year contract with opening day starter Cristopher Sánchez

NFL/Football

Skattebo sorry for 'tasteless joke' on CTE, asthma

Bucs safety's fiancée helped woman hit by car

College Sports

Penn State cruises to 5th consecutive team title at NCAA men’s wrestling championships

FSU’s Isa Torres sees her NCAA record streak end after she gets 16 hits in 16 at bats

Auto Racing

Reddick wins at Darlington in 4th NASCAR win this season for Michael Jordan’s team

Golf

Fitzpatrick goes from disappointment to winning at Valspar Championship

Kim holds off Korda for a wire-to-wire win in the Founders Cup

DeChambeau wins again by beating Rahm in a LIV playoff in South Africa

Tennis

Wimbledon introduces video review on six courts for this year’s tournament

Alcaraz loses to Korda in the third round of the Miami Open

Hockey

Panthers’ A.J. Greer suspended for 3 games for shoving Flames’ Connor Zary into the boards

Smith’s late goal lifts Vegas past Dallas 3-2 and denies Stars’ bid to clinch a playoff berth

Forsberg scores twice including in OT to lift Predators over Blackhawks for a 4th straight win

Avalanche beat Capitals in OT after Alex Ovechkin scores his 1,000th NHL goal counting playoffs

Sorokin has NHL-leading 7th shutout, Horvat’s early goal stands as Islanders edge Blue Jackets

WNBA/Women’s basketball

What the 2026 WNBA CBA means for league, players, salaries

Here's how much money Caitlin Clark is set to make under the new WNBA CBA

Boxing/UFC/MMA/WWE

2-time Olympic boxer Michael Conlan says time to ‘walk away’ after loss to Brockton’s Kevin Walsh

Scoreboards

NBA scores

NHL scores