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Receiver Stefon Diggs, the top remaining uncommitted football prospect nationally in the 2012 signing class, announced Friday evening that he was staying home by signing with Maryland.

Baylor's recent dominance in state swimming will be put to the test this weekend in Nashville by a couple of schools competing at home.

Two months from today, the Chattanooga Lookouts will be wrapping up their first homestand of the 2012 season against the Tennessee Smokies.

The Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia football rivalries may have to survive another round of discussions.

While perusing his latest list of football signees last week, Georgia recruiting coordinator Rodney Garner said, "We covered things across the board."

Auburn football coach Gene Chizik announced Tuesday that Phillip Lolley, the cornerbacks coach the past three seasons, will leave his field responsibilities and return to an administrative role within the program.

So much for South Carolina's attempt at altering the predictability that has become Southeastern Conference basketball this season.

Three years after Lane Kiffin arrived as Tennessee's football coach and became a brief nuisance for Urban Meyer of Florida, Meyer has become a nuisance for the Big Ten.

Since Rivals.com began its extensive rankings of college football prospects and signing classes in 2002, Georgia, Oklahoma and Southern Cal are the lone programs to have produced top-15 collections each year.

Three lesser-known members of last year’s “Dream Team” signing class at the University of Georgia were dismissed from the program Friday morning.

Three Georgia football players were dismissed from the team today by coach Mark Richt for violating team rules.

Forget the fact he's the No. 1 or No. 2 tailback nationally depending on the recruiting service, and forget that he rushed for nearly 1,900 yards this past season.

The University of Georgia received the letter-of-intent from Valdosta linebacker Josh Harvey-Clemons this morning, bringing the number of Bulldogs signees to 19.

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football coach Mark Richt admitted Wednesday that he would prefer no buzz on national signing day. Who can blame him?

ATHENS, Ga. — Usually it’s the prospects providing the drama for coaches in college football recruiting, but it was just the opposite for John Theus.

Georgia football coach Mark Richt asked Peach State prospects last winter to join his "Dream Team," and the concept worked when the Bulldogs landed Columbus tailback Isaiah Crowell, Valdosta receiver Malcolm Mitchell, Thomasville linebacker Ray Drew and Atlanta cornerback Damian Swann.

Winning on the road for Southeastern Conference basketball teams always has been difficult, but this season it's downright bleak.

Sheldon Dawson, ranked among the top dozen cornerback prospects nationally by Scout.com, committed to Georgia on Monday.

On Feb. 4, 2009, Lane Kiffin stepped to the podium and addressed what would be his only signing class as University of Tennessee football coach.

ESPN and its family of networks has increased the coverage of college football in recent years, and it hasn’t been limited to the field.

Phillip Fulmer has been linked to at least three college vacancies since being ousted as Tennessee’s football coach in 2008, but he couldn’t bring himself to pursue any of them seriously.

League strength in college basketball tends to be gauged by NCAA tournament advancement every March, but the Southeastern Conference produced good reason for chest bumping this past Saturday.

Opportunity is knocking again.

University police responded to an incident downtown involving Commings, who will be a senior on the 2012 roster, and his girlfriend. Commings had left the scene when police arrived around 1 a.m., and he was arrested shortly after 7.

NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper said Thursday afternoon that former McCallie School and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga quarterback B.J. Coleman projects as a fifth- or sixth-round selection.

Alabama announced Wednesday the hiring of Doug Nussmeier as offensive coordinator and the return of Lance Thompson as outside linebackers coach.

Nearly 29,000 students began spring semester classes Tuesday at LSU, but Gunner Kiel was not among them.

The Florida Gators continue to lead the nation in 3-point shooting, but the health of one of their inside talents has coach Billy Donovan concerned.

Auburn quarterback Barrett Trotter, who completed his redshirt junior season with a riveting performance against Virginia in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, has decided not to return for his senior year.

Last Monday's matchup between Alabama and LSU in the BCS championship game didn't contain nearly as much drama as a recruiting battle between the Crimson Tide and Tigers several days earlier.

This was one Friday the 13th that was filled with anything but horror. Georgia's hopes for a special 2012 football season intensified Friday afternoon when several junior defenders announced they were staying for their final college season.

Three days after winning a second BCS championship in three years, Alabama lost three juniors to the NFL. Tailback Trent Richardson, cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick and linebacker Dont'a Hightower announced Thursday that they would forgo their final season in Tuscaloosa.

Alabama running back Trent Richardson and cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick announced their intentions today at a joint news conference to forego their senior seasons with the Crimson Tide and enter the NFL draft.

Georgia tight end Orson Charles had no problem Wednesday afternoon announcing his decision to forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft.

Sporting events brought a record economic impact to Chattanooga in 2011, but one of the marquee matchups this city hosted for more than a decade could continue to stay away.

Tight end to skip senior season

NEW ORLEANS — Maybe Alabama's football players can take the rest of this week to enjoy Monday night's 21-0 suffocating of LSU in the BCS championship game and not have to hear about the next matchup with the Tigers.

NEW ORLEANS — Alabama sophomore linebacker C.J. Mosley dislocated his hip during the Crimson Tide's 21-0 skunking of LSU in Monday night's BCS championship game.

NEW ORLEANS — There were five field goals again, but they were all for Alabama.

NEW ORLEANS -- Meet Zach Mettenberger, who woke up Monday morning as LSU's third-string quarterback and wakes up this morning as its first-string quarterback.

Georgia turned the page from its 2011 football season to 2012 with a team meeting Sunday night.

Alabama and LSU weren't the only SEC West schools making news Monday. Hours before the Crimson Tide and Tigers kicked off in New Orleans, Auburn announced the hiring of Brian VanGorder as defensive coordinator.

The Southeastern Conference started its league schedule in men's basketball this past Saturday, beginning a 16-game grind that was sure to contain close call after close call. Or maybe not.

NEW ORLEANS -- Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive didn't need Monday night's Alabama-LSU outcome to know that his league went 6-3 in bowl games this season.

The Southeastern Conference’s record-setting run in college football will notch another milestone tonight when No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama meet in the Superdome for the BCS national championship.

Alabama can either stop the option tonight or be out of options in this season's quest for a national championship. The Crimson Tide have been superior to every college football defense in the major statistical categories, but their Achilles' heel has been an inability to stop the option.

The first meeting between Alabama and LSU did not present any difficult fourth-down decisions for coaches Nick Saban and Les Miles, but will tonight be different?

LSU and Alabama have not only been the two best teams in college football this season but the two deepest, and Crimson Tide linebacker Tana Patrick is part of the proof.

It's taken 13 years, but John Chavis is back in the big one. Chavis was Tennessee's defensive coordinator in 1998, when the Volunteers won the inaugural BCS championship with a 23-16 victory over Florida State in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl.

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