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While traditional spring sports such as baseball, softball and track are winding down, the Southern tradition of spring football practice is just kicking off at many tri-state area schools. And while spring football practice typically focuses on getting...

Notre Dame High School senior and Chattanooga Junior Rowing captain Lauren Simpson signed scholarship papers last week to row for the University of Tulsa. "Lauren has been one of the most effective leaders the team has had in years," CJR coach Jack Fish...

Moving around has always been a big part of new Loyola basketball coach G.G. Smith's life. As a child whose father, Tubby, was a rising star in the college basketball coaching ranks, Smith spent time growing up in college towns like Columbia, S.C.,...

RICHMOND — It’s no secret Dominique Hawkins wanted to play basketball at the University of Kentucky. This morning, the Madison Central standout made it official after announcing his plans to sign with the Wildcats in front of his family,...

This NFL offseason represents the 10-year anniversary of the inception of the "Rooney Rule." The rule, named after Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney, requires teams to interview minority candidates for all head coaching and senior football...

Jerry and Debbie Bishop of Cookeville, Tenn., announce the engagement of their daughter, Maria Christine Bishop to Joseph Zachary Greenwood, son of Joe Greenwood and Kim and Kenny Dyer of Cookeville. Maria is the granddaughter of the late Lou Case and...

|TV SPORTS| |WEDNESDAY|  Soccer -- Premiere League, West Ham at Manchester United, 1:55 p.m. (ESPN2).  Men’s College Basketball -- Virginia at Wisconsin, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); George Washington at James Madison, 6 p.m. (NBCSN); Michigan State at...

|HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL| South Dakota|  Aberdeen Central at Sioux Falls O’Gorman, 7 p.m.  Aberdeen Christian vs. Langford, Civic Arena, 7 p.m.  Aberdeen Roncalli vs. Hamlin at Hayti, 8 p.m.  Britton-Hecla vs. Deuel at Clear Lake  Clark-...

Hampton University's next exceptional defender is in uniform because of, in order, a coaching change in Ann Arbor, Mich., a chance conversation at a rec league basketball game in New Orleans, and a persuasive phone call from Pirates' coach Donovan Rose....

For his final year of college basketball, Terence Jones knew exactly what he wanted in a program. The former Lake Clifton guard wanted to play for a school that would offer more exposure for him than he received at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. He wanted...

Craig Sonner has never defended a client accused in a homicide, but he now represents George Zimmerman, the man at the center of one of the nation's most racially divisive shootings in years. And Sonner predicts he'll have no problem clearing Zimmerman....