Jeff Hart

Chad Flack homered to get North Carolina to the College World Series in 2006 and 2007. This year, he homered to keep the Tar Heels in Omaha at least for another day. Flack's monster two-run shot in the bottom of the eighth inning Saturday night kept Carolina alive with a 4-3 victory over Fresno State.

Several times this year Fredrick Moore had chances to get his first win of the season in the Pro Late Model division at Lanier National Speedway. Saturday night Moore started on the pole because of an inverted start, grabbed the lead on Lap 1, and this time held off all challengers in going flag-to-flag for the victory.

Rich Poythress tied a College World Series record with three doubles, Ryan Peisel hit a three-run homer and Georgia withstood Stanford's ninth-inning comeback try to advance to the championship round with a 10-8 victory on Saturday.

Kyle Busch will start from the pole Sunday in the Lifelock 400, thanks to rain that washed away qualifying at Michigan International Speedway.

Tom Logano had modest goals for son Joey when the 18-year-old prodigy made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut last month in Dover. The elder Logano thought it would take Joey maybe 10 races to reach Victory Lane.

Tiger Woods delivered a performance worthy of prime time Saturday in the U.S. Open. He ended one of his most exciting rounds in a major with a 30-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole for a 1-under 70 and a one-shot lead over Lee Westwood.

With the same purpose as one of his in-your-face jumpers, Kobe Bryant leaned into the microphone. He promised more NBA finals games to come. "The series ain't over," he said. "It's far from over."

Two officials suspended by NASCAR are accused in a $225 million lawsuit of exposing themselves to a former co-worker, the Associated Press has learned. Tim Knox and Bud Moore have been placed on indefinite administrative paid leave.

Despite a shaky economy, donations to Tennessee athletics is on the upswing, athletics director Mike Hamilton said. By the beginning of April, almost 12,000 donors had given $33.8 million to the athletic department for fiscal year 2007-08 -- $5 million more than had been collected by the same time the previous year.

Most kids want to be firefighters or pitchers. Greg Byrne can't remember ever wanting to be anything other than an athletic director. Mississippi State's incoming leader became the youngest major college athletic director in the nation Friday when he moved into his new office.