Jeff Hart

The Flowery Branch and Lakeview Academy boys and Gainesville girls basketball teams all will be staying at home when the second round of the state playoffs begin Tuesday.

Memphis wanted to prove it really was the best team in the country, maybe even make a run at perfection. Turns out, the Tigers aren't even best in their own state. Tyler Smith hit a turnaround jumper in the lane with 28 seconds left and No. 2 Tennessee knocked off the nation's last unbeaten team, edging top-ranked Memphis 66-62 on Saturday night.

Westminster scored the first 12 points of the game and then held off two second half runs by North Hall in taking a 65-48 win Saturday in the first round of the Class AAA girls state playoffs at the North Hall gym.

Senior Joshua Fields collected two hits including a home run and then struck out the side in the ninth for a save as Georgia defeated top-ranked Arizona 9-7 in the season opener.

Did Tom Glavine really pitch for any team other than the Atlanta Braves? Was he really gone for five seasons? Except for a few gray hairs and an extra pound or two around the middle, he just picked right up where he left off in 2002.

Blessed Trinity used a huge fourth quarter to pull away for an 81-48 win over Chestatee Friday night in the first round of the Class AAA boys state basketball playoffs.

For one quarter Dawson County led Class AA No. 2 Greater Atlanta Christian 13-11 in the first round of the state playoffs Friday night.

With the memories of its first-ever Region 7-AAA title last week not yet faded, the Flowery branch boys basketball team pulled off another first Friday night in the first round of the Class AAA tournament.

Ryan Newman snapped an 81-race winless streak Sunday, using a huge push from teammate Kurt Busch to give car owner Roger Penske his first Daytona 500 victory.

Gilmer won five individual titles and placed 13 of 14 wrestlers in the top four of the Area 7-AAA Traditional Meet Saturday at Gilmer High School. The Bobcats won the team title going away piling up 264 points to second place Lumpkin County's 145.5 points. Pickens was third with 138.5, Flowery branch fourth with 121, and White County fifth with 111 points.