Posted: 3:05 PM Baltimore Ravens quarterback Steve McNair is retiring from the NFL after 13 seasons.

Posted: 7:54 AM Mike Jacobs hit his sixth home run and Luis Gonzalez added a two-run pinch-hit homer to help the Florida Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 6-5 tonight.

Posted: 6:48 PM Georgia State University is ready for some football. The downtown Atlanta school called a news conference for Thursday and is expected to announce it will start a football team in 2010.

Posted: 6:47 PM Atlanta Braves left-handers Tom Glavine and Mike Hampton threw bullpen sessions before tonight's game at Florida and came away encouraged they're on the mend.

Posted: 5:42 PM Corey Smith, a 6-foot-7 power forward from Alabama, has signed a national letter of intent to play for Southern Miss.

Posted: 3:07 PM University of Alabama students quickly snapped up football tickets for the upcoming season.

Posted: 8:42 AM Alabama coach Nick Saban and Auburn's Tommy Tuberville picked prominent former quarterbacks as partners for an upcoming charity golf event.

Posted: 8:40 AM Scott Olsen pitched seven sharp innings of five-hit ball, leading the Florida Marlins to a 4-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves.

Posted: 8:37 AM Southeastern Conference football teams will face 13 nonconference opponents in the upcoming season who played in bowl games.

Posted: 1:23 PM The Buffalo Bills are going north of the border for their annual home showdown with the Miami Dolphins.

Posted: 6:32 PM Former Alabama tight end Howard Cross was among those who correctly predicted that the underdog New York Giants would win this year's Super Bowl.

Updated: 5:35 PM The baseball player who hit in 37 consecutive games in 1945 to set a modern National League record that stood until it was broken by Pete Rose has died in South Florida.

Posted: 2:04 PM The Atlanta Braves are off Monday after winning two out of three in Washington.

Posted: 2:01 PM A relief pitcher for the Montgomery Biscuits voluntarily retired and left the team over the weekend.

Posted: 1:58 PM Georgia Tech canceled Tuesday's game at Georgia Southern so the team can attend the funeral of Michael Hutts, a pitcher who was found dead in his apartment on Friday.

Posted: 10:20 AM Alabama didn't quite pack the house for its spring game this time. John Parker Wilson passed for 265 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Crimson to a 24-14 win Saturday over the White before an announced crowd of 78,200 at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Posted: 10:16 AM Phil Disher's home run in the eighth led South Carolina to an 8-6 win over Auburn Saturday.

Posted: 10:14 AM Jake Smith knocked in three runs to lead Alabama to a 11-10 victory over Tennessee in the first game of a double-header Saturday.

Posted: 10:12 AM Auburn defensive end Quentin Groves underwent heart surgery on March 27th to treat Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and it's not expected to affect his NFL draft status.

Posted: 10:11 AM Scott Spiezio was released by the Atlanta Braves from their top minor league affiliate, less than a week after the veteran infielder pleaded guilty in a drunken-driving case.

Posted: 2:36 PM Robert George "Bobby" Hoppe, a halfback on Auburn University's 1957 national championship team, has died. He was 73.

Updated: 4:15 PM Alabama football coach Nick Saban said Crimson Tide fans will see starters against starters and backups against backups in tomorrow's A-Day game at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Posted: 7:57 AM The Alabama softball team dominated Troy 11-0 last night in a front of a record crowd at the Troy Softball Complex.

Posted: 6:09 PM Trent Johnson is the new men's basketball coach at LSU. He's leaving Stanford for the Tigers' job.

Posted: 6:08 PM Bill Self has a new contract to remain as men's basketball coach at Kansas. The move ends uncertainty about Self's future after he led the Jayhawks to their first NCAA title in 20 years on Monday.