Kevin West

The Marietta East Cobb Yankees won the Connie Mack World Series Thursday by edging out the Cincinnati Midland Redskins 5-4.

The Georgia High School Association will vote this fall on a proposal to move up the start of the 2004 football season, which would end in early December instead of days before Christmas.

Kelly Campbell can outrun almost everybody on the field, which makes Minnesota excited. He also weighs only half as much as teammate Bryant McKinnie, which makes the Vikings worry.

The Marietta, Ga. Yankees defeated the Cincinnati-Midland Redskins 10-9 Tuesday in the Connie Mack World Series.

North Carolina defensive tackle Donti Coats has received a medical hardship and will no longer play football, the school announced Tuesday.

The University of Arkansas' Baum Stadium, already one of the top-ranked college baseball stadiums in the country, will switch to natural turf, in a move that officials say will make it superior to even many minor-league parks.

The East Cobb Yankees of Marietta, Ga., got a 3-2 win over the Encinitas, Calif., Reds in the eighth game of the Connie Mack World Series.

Mississippi State is awaiting an NCAA ruling on defensive lineman Kamau Jackson, who is being held out of practice by the Bulldogs while the NCAA decides whether to grant him another year of eligibility.

South Carolina wide receiver Matthew Thomas has been reinstated, five months after he was suspended following his arrest on a simple assault charge.

University of Memphis assistant coach Charles Coe III was named interim football coach at Alabama State on Monday, setting off a groundswell of resistance from players, who are taking legal action to keep L.C. Cole as their coach.