College Sports

Georgia State has named Charlie Cobb the school's new athletic director.

Pittsburgh financial adviser Nathan Smith beat U.S. Amateur co-medalist Lee McCoy in 19 holes Wednesday in the first round of match play at Atlanta Athletic Club.

Paul Johnson's first two years at Georgia Tech are looking better and better - and increasingly distant in the past.

After having claimed the 2013 USA South Championship Tournament title, the Piedmont College women's soccer team has been picked to repeat that feat as the league's Preseason Coaches Poll was released earlier today with the Lady Lions atop the listing, finishing just one point ahead of long-time conference rival, Maryville College.

Taylor Moore and Lee McCoy were at 8-under 135 to earn medalist honors after stroke play Tuesday at the U.S. Amateur Championship.

The countdown has started. The team has been selected. And today, nearly 50 metro Atlanta residents, including one from Flowery Branch, are among 100 fans of Chick-fil-A and college football who will camp overnight inside the new College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-fil-A Fan Experience.

If they gave out an award for the most patient player, Georgia's Hutson Mason would surely be one of the top contenders.

The Southeastern Conference's new network debuts Thursday, promising more than 1,000 live events this year and a reach that includes most major television providers in the South.

Jimmy Beck, Taylor Moore and British teenager Sam Horsfield shared the lead at 6-under-par -- with Clarkesville's McCoy one stroke back -- after the first round of stroke play qualifying at the U.S. Amateur Championship on Monday.

The NCAA wants clarification on two points in a California judge's ruling in the landmark Ed O'Bannon case.