Jeff Hart

Cardale Jones came through again at the Sugar Bowl. Ezekiel Elliott ran all over mighty Alabama. And Urban Meyer's quest to turn Ohio State into SEC North is one victory away from a national championship.

Marcus Mariota and Oregon turned an avalanche of Florida State mistakes into a mountain of points and the Ducks rolled past the defending national champions 59-20 Thursday to turn the first College Football Playoff semifinal into a Rose Bowl rout.

The New York Yankees have bolstered their bullpen by acquiring David Carpenter and Chasen Shreve in a trade with the Atlanta Braves.

Charles Mann scored 17 points, including two game-sealing free throws with five seconds left, as Georgia closed out 2014 victoriously by defeating Kansas State 50-46 on the road Wednesday night.

Ever the aggressor on the court, Johnson

It was a Lanierland Tournament final worthy of the ages.

The Dawson County boys snapped a five-game losing streak with a 48-37 win over Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Tuesday night in the Mountain Top Classic.

Paul Millsap scored 26 points and took over for Atlanta in the fourth quarter to help hold off a Cleveland comeback and the Hawks beat the short-handed Cavaliers 109-101 on Tuesday night.

The Banks County girls basketball team won the Commerce Holiday Tournament with a 60-52 win over Madison County Tuesday.

The Buford girls held off a scrappy Effingham County team Tuesday night in the third-place game of the Farm Bureau Classic.