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Defending champion Scott Wolfes of St. Simons Island fired his second-straight 69 and first-round leader Austin Vick of Evans turned in an even-par 71 as the two players sit tied atop the leader board at 4-under-par 138 in the 45th annual Georgia Junior Championship, taking place at Green Island Country Club, June 21-23.

A new semi-pro basketball team is about to tip off in the Southern Crescent, as the American Basketball Association has announced the formation of the Georgia Knights.

TAMPA C Jeff Faine said Tuesday that the contract impasse between the Bucs and starting LT Donald Penn could become a distraction if there’s no accord by training camp.

Eric Barron, the first-year FSU president, said he received plenty of e-mail from university supporters hoping to stay in the ACC or jump to the SEC The speculation surrounding major conference realignment and expansion has slowed given what’s left of the Big 12 plans to remain together for now but for a while first-year Florida State president Eric Barron said the expansion buzz “was …

The reason Florida State dominated college football in the 1990s was simple — it had the best players. In recent years, the Seminoles slipped, writes Jamie Newberg of ESPN Recruiting, but coach Jimbo Fisher is starting to reverse that trend . Former FSU coach Bobby Bowden was one of the sport’s best closers when it came to recruiting, but Fisher has made the necessary changes on the staff and …

Between the time I write this (Sunday) and the time it first publishes (Wednesday), we might have a college football super-duper-mega-conference known as the “Big South- eastern PAC 64.” Or maybe the disease commonly referred to as college football expansion will go into remission, leaving the Big 12 to lick its wounds from losing Nebraska and Colorado and the rest of the college football world …

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Gerrit Cole one-upped his teammate, and UCLA is one win from the College World Series’ championship round.