Thursday's Report: Houston County's Burress, JMA signing, Mercer, Georgia College; UGA-UT, Hawks, UGA/Beck/Bolden/Delp; College FB & B, NFL/playoffs/moves, Australian Open, NBA, MLB, golfs
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High Schools
🏀🏀🏀Girls basketball🏀🏀🏀
Westside 68, Howard 20
🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀
Westside 51, Howard 39
Joshua Harden and Christian Little split 40 points for the Seminoles.
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Georgia College 63, USC Beaufort 50
🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Samford 75, Mercer 74
USC Beaufort 97, Georgia College 90
Pro
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀
📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰
Signing
John Milledge’s Remington Weaver signed with Piedmont University for baseball.
Around/About Central Georgia
Brownell has 18, Samford knocks off Mercer by 1
Alumni Update
Houston County’s Burress named No. 1 collegiate sophomore by Perfect Game
Around/About Georgia
No. 6 Tennessee overcomes slow start with huge early second half surge, beats No. 23 Georgia
Wallace scores career-high 27 points to help the Hawks beat the Bulls
Young misses Hawks’ game against Bulls because of bruised right rib
Don't believe what you hear: Georgia wanted Beck back, even with so many offensive issues
UGA’s Bolden earns national honor
Atlanta signs 14 to reserve/future contracts
Tech women may not face Notre Dame’s Hidalgo
College Football/SEC/ACC/South
Bo Jackson gives up $21 million judgment in extortion suit against niece and nephew
Swinney explains why Clemson has more transfer portal additions in 2025 than other seasons combined
College Football/Notre Dame vs. Ohio State
CFP championship game prediction: Ohio State will take home the title
Why Freeman should turn down NFL ... for now
Ohio State slowly has paced itself on offense all the way to the national championship game
College Football/Portal and draft
Texas QB Ewers declares for NFL draft as program ushers in Manning era
Vols DE Pearce forgoes final season for NFL draft
Tar Heels QB Criswell entering transfer portal
College Football
Jack Hoffman, young cancer patient who captured hearts of Nebraska and nation with 2013 TD run, dies
Meyer joins Saban in College Football HOF’s Class of 2025; Vick, Strahan also elected
College Football/Coaching carousel and moves
Gundy to join his father’s staff as assistant coach at Oklahoma State
Sources: Belichick adds 2 veteran coaches to staff
NFL Playoffs/NFC
Lions winning in ways they haven’t in Super Bowl era after franchise finally found the right leaders
Commanders go from reveling in the franchise’s first playoff win in 19 years to focusing on Detroit
Rams’ opportunistic young defense has been key to their late-season surge, playoff win over Vikings
Daniels to McLaurin connection has blossomed for the Commanders
NFL Playoffs/AFC
Veterans Hopkins, Brown provide big boost to Chiefs wide receiver group
Baltimore WR Flowers misses practice with knee injury as showdown with Buffalo draws closer
Bills brace for playoff test of stopping Ravens’ Henry after getting trampled in Week 4
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
Vulgar Eagles fan fired from consulting job after vile rant at female Packers fan
Inside Dan Quinn's total transformation of the Washington Commanders
Tomlin doesn’t feel the Steelers are stuck, but all options are on the table heading into 2025
Wild-card round averages 28.3 million viewers, a 9.3% decline from last year
Gregorian: Inside the Chiefs' psychological advantages as they chase Super Bowl three-peat
Mayfield: Dumb stuff from loss will wear on me for a while
NFL/Carousel
Bears interview Steelers OC Smith for head coaching job
Browns name Rees OC. Former Notre Dame QB worked as ball boy in Cleveland
Aikman rips Cowboys: ‘It suggests that there’s not a real plan’
It's not a great year to be a top NFL coaching candidate
College Basketball/Women
March Madness will pay women’s teams under a new structure approved by the NCAA
TCU women forfeited games and had open tryouts a year ago. They are now a top-10 team atop Big 12
Iowa State’s 30-year streak of hitting a 3-pointer ends in win over Texas Tech
Bueckers returns from left knee sprain and scores 12 points in 23 minutes
College Basketball/Men
Still winless in league play, Longhorns and Sooners finding life hard in SEC men’s basketball
No. 12 Michigan State beats Penn State for 1st 10-game winning streak since 2019 Final Four season
Schutt sinks two free throws to cap Virginia Tech rally over N.C. State
Grill scores 22 as Missouri stuns No. 5 Florida to end its 16-game home winning streak
Winthrop wins in triple OT against Charleston Southern
Furman defeats East Tennessee State
Troy secures win against UL Monroe
College Sports, the changing landscape
NCAA to dole out $1.2B to help pay for House settlement. Its president asks for Congress to step in
NBA
Clippers rout Nets for largest margin of victory in team history
Warriors fend off Timberwolves behind Curry’s 31 points to climb back to .500
Murray scores 30 points as the Pelicans outlast the injury-depleted Mavericks
Tennis
Gauff is into the Australian Open’s 3rd round and still unbeaten in 2025
Swiatek moves into a 3rd-round match against Emma Raducanu at the Australian Open
Djokovic breaks a tie with Roger Federer for the most Grand Slam matches in tennis history
Raducanu plays through pain, charms crowd in win
Medvedev destroys a TV camera attached to the net during his 5-set Australian Open win
WNBA/Women’s basketball
How Unrivaled 3v3 league is taking basketball to the next level
Alleged Clark stalker disruptive in court appearance, held on $50K bond
Baseball/MLB
Morii, 18-year-old 2-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Reliever Hoffman says Orioles and Braves backed off deals before his contract with Blue Jays
Golf
O’Neil takes over as the CEO of Saudi-funded LIV Golf
McIlroy advises McKibbin against joining LIV Golf, saying it’s not worth the sacrifice
Around the nation/world
Bill to award 1980 ‘Miracle On Ice’ US hockey team with Congressional Gold Medals is reintroduced
Scoreboards