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Well before stepping on the floor inside the historic Jimmy Duke Arena versus an archrival, Baylor sophomore Eli Sparkman was counting down the seconds until the opening tip in a region home game Saturday.

Perhaps you remember the Duracell commercial from Super Bowl XLVIII.

James L. "Bucky" Wolford made his first notable contributions to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, then the University of Chattanooga, as a football star, scholar and ROTC leader in the mid to late 1960s. He's still making substantial contributions now, more than two years after his death at the age of 70.

Tennessee returns to competition and Southeastern Conference play when it hosts Texas A&M (9-9, 7-4) at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Lady Vols will try to earn their sixth SEC win in seven tries this season when LSU visits Thompson-Boling Arena.

UTC was hampered by 20 turnovers that led to 20 ETSU points, and the Mocs were dominated in the paint, where the Bucs had a 46-26 edge in points.

The Mocs made just six of 26 field-goal attempts while committing 10 turnovers in the first half.

UTC sophomore wrestlers Hunter Fortner and Matthew Waddell led the way for seven top-three finishers for the Mocs on Saturday in Boone, North Carolina.

Notre Dame High School junior CJ Petrin already had been designated as Mr. Bowling in TSSAA Division II, but he and his teammates made themselves the division's bowlers of the year.

Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts came into the game to a loud ovation in the state where he once starred for the Alabama Crimson Tide.

The PGA Tour is raising the prize money at The Players Championship to $15 million, making it the largest purse in golf unless any of the majors decide to up the ante this year.

The Senior Bowl quarterbacks followed different paths to potential NFL careers, but they started this week on a more even playing field ahead of Saturday's showcase game.

Eli Manning ended his 16-year NFL career on his own terms. He was classy, well-prepared and walked away as a New York Giant.

Oakland Athletics pitcher Mike Fiers didn't have any more to say regarding his role as a whistleblower.

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After Baylor 182-pound senior and state champion hopeful Connor Duffy took his opponent down to the mat with authority, the road crowd erupted as his brute force got things rolling against an archrival.

The Tennessee men's basketball team will visit the third-ranked — and short-handed — Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday as part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.

James Coley, Georgia's offensive coordinator this past football season who was reassigned last week by Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart, is leaving Athens to become Texas A&M's tight ends coach under Jimbo Fisher.

The high-flying East Tennessee State University Buccaneers (No. 6 in the CollegeInsider.com poll for mid-major programs) are 11-0 this season at Freedom Hall.

The Mocs would like to forget Thursday night's loss at Samford, where they committed 24 turnovers.

It didn't take long for Shaw Gamble to reach his goal of becoming the head coach of a high school baseball program.

After leading all TSSAA Division II bowlers in regular-season scoring average, Notre Dame junior CJ Petrin was first again after the state individual semifinals Thursday at Smyrna, but he finished second Friday to Pope John Paul II junior Matthew Mesecher. McCallie junior Andrew Haun wound up fourth.