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Auburn holds off UCF in a back-and-forth battle in Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Auburn women’s basketball opened its exhibition schedule with a gritty 65-59 victory over UCF on Wednesday at Boutwell Auditorium. The Tigers led 24-6 after the first quarter before holding off a second-half comeback by the Knights to win 65-59. Auburn set the tone from the opening tip, jumping out to a dominant 10-0 run by controlling the fast break and offensive glass. Junior guard Ja’Mia Harris set the pace early for the Tigers, scoring eight of the team's first 10 points while pulling down two early rebounds.
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ESPN predicts winner of Auburn vs Georgia
The Auburn Tigers will face an uphill battle on Saturday when they travel to play the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs . Auburn is coming off a bye week, and Georgia had an emotional 20-17 road victory over No. 7 Alabama in Week 6. The Tigers are a heavy underdog against the Bulldogs. According to the ESPN Matchup Predictor , Auburn has a 9.7% chance of winning against Georgia. Another element of this game is the rivalry. Auburn versus Georgia is the oldest rivalry in the South with 130 total meetings. Georgia leads the series all-time 66-56-8 and has won nine straight meetings. Auburn last defeated Georgia 40-17 during the 2017 regular season. The winning streak started for the Bulldogs that same season in the SEC Championship when they won 28-7. A lot will have to go right for Auburn to pull off the upset on Saturday. Being careful with the football has to be at the top of the list. Auburn quarterback Byrum Brown has turned the football over with seven interceptions this season. For context, he threw seven interceptions for the entire 2025 season with South Florida. The Tigers will also need to slow down Georgia's run game. The
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Brookstone keeps the Broocelli Jug with win over Columbus rival Pacelli
The Brookstone Cougars (4-5, 2-0) defeated St. Anne Pacelli (5-3, 1-1) 39-31 in the Battle of the Broocelli Jug, and the Cougars won the jug for the third year in a row. Brookstone got the ball first, but senior running back Dillon Terry fumbled, and Pacelli senior safety Uriah Mazyck returned the recovery for a touchdown to put the Vikings up 7-0. Later in the first quarter, the Cougars produced a long drive, thanks senior quarterback Broughton Branch’s big run and Terry’s 12-yard touchdown to tie the game 7-7. At the start of the second quarter, the Vikings converted on a fourth down, but Brookstone got a fourth-down stop while Pacelli was about to score. The Cougars then moved the ball as Branch connected on a wheel route to Terry for Terry’s second touchdown of the game to put Brookstone up 14-7. Pacelli responded on the next possession with senior quarterback Matthew Alexich moving the ball down the field in the air and on the ground with senior running back DJ Colvin. Colvin scored on an 8-yard run, and Mazyck scored the two-point conversion on a direct snap to push Pacelli ahead 15-14 at halftime. Pacelli received the ball to
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Georgia Injury Report: Starter now unlikely to play vs. Auburn
Thursday night’s SEC Availability Report revealed that Georgia safety KJ Bolden is likely out for the Bulldogs clash with Auburn on Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN). He’s now listed as doubtful after appearing as questionable on Wednesday’s report. Junior offensive lineman Marcus Harrison is no longer listed on the report. He was questionable on Wednesday. Georgia has already ruled out junior wideout Isiah Canion, sophomore wideout Thomas Blackshear, junior running back Chauncey Bowens, junior EDGE Amaris Williams and freshman defensive back Tyriq Green. Bolden came off the field slowly late in...
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TV channel, commentators set for Georgia vs. Auburn game
The No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs host the unranked Auburn Tigers in Week 7 of the 2026 college football season. Auburn is coming off a bye week while Georgia just earned an emotional 20-17 road win over the Alabama Crimson Tide . Georgia can't afford to have a let down against Auburn and Georgia coach Kirby Smart has made it clear that he wants UGA focusing on the Tigers. "They have a lot of talent," coach Smart said about Auburn. "They've got good football players, and it's any given Saturday in this conference, as we see every week. "It will be an extremely physical game. They're coming off an off week, and we're coming off a really tough physical game. It will be really important that the mindset and the approach to the game is right because they want to make it physical the way they play." The ESPN commentators for the Georgia-Auburn game are Dave Pasch (play-by-play), Dusty Dvoracek (analyst), and Taylor McGregor (sideline). The game kicks off at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 17 and will be televised on ESPN. Georgia (6-0, 4-0 SEC) is looking to win a 10th consecutive game over Auburn (3-2, 1-2 SEC), who
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At 92, Cecil Calhoun still walks the course that shaped his legacy
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Cecil Calhoun's golf seat stick left small indentations in the putting green as he moved around to watch the action Monday at the Country Club of Columbus. Calhoun was using it more as a walker, but I doubt whether he even needed the assistance. To those in Columbus, the second largest town by population in Georgia, Calhoun is a legend. Now 92 years old, he graduated from Columbus High School in 1952, played on the LSU men's golf team and won a national championship in 1955 before serving his country as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force. And this week, the lifetime member at the Country Club of Columbus was waltzing around the putting green, bouncing between watching the groups on the 12th and 18th greens while taking in tee shots from the first and 10th, too. All of these shots are ones Calhoun has hit thousands of times, though he can't quite guess just how many rounds he has accumulated over his life. He has been playing here neatly a century, and this week he watched as his home course hosted the 2026 Haskins Intercollegiate, a premier women's college golf event, for the first time.
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Follow Athens-area high school teams in GHSA softball playoffs here
Softball concluded its region tournaments and declared winners over the weekend and are now gearing up for the GHSA-wide competition to start Oct. 13. The first and second rounds, also known as the Super Regionals, will run from Oct. 12-15 and Oct. 19-22 in a traditional best-of-three format. The higher seed in each matchup will host and the final eight out of each classification will advance to the coveted Elite Eight. Games will be played in doubleheader format with a tiebreaker the following day. The Elite Eight and championships are slated to be held like always at the South Commons Softball Complex — located at 400 4th St. in Columbus, Ga. — from Oct. 28-31. GIAA-wide competition is set to be held in the same location in Columbus, but from Oct. 15-17. Those brackets are not yet set. Here are the Athens-area softball programs with sights set into the postseason and their Super Regional first-round opponents: Athens-area high school softball teams in state tournament: Super Regional first-round opponents GHSA Class 6A 24-seed Jackson County at 9-seed Northside Columbus | DH Oct. 14 at 5 & 7 p.m., IF game Oct. 15 at TBD Class 5A 6-seed North Oconee vs. 27-seed