Jeff Hart

While playing catch at the end of baseball practice, Tim Beckham tosses the ball around his back, flips it between his legs and then, revealing his love for another sport, shows off his jump shot. The 18-year-old Griffin High standout, who once dreamed of the NBA draft, could be the No. 1 overall pick in baseball's amateur draft on Thursday.

For 56 laps of the 100-lap Super 6 Pro Late Model race at Lanier National Speedway Saturday night, Cleveland

The University of Miami sent 10 batters to the plate during a four-run first inning and went on to defeat Virginia, 8-4, Sunday afternoon to clinch the championship game of the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.

The LSU Tigers once seemed a longshot to even make the Southeastern Conference tournament, and were snubbed when the postseason honors came out. Tournament MVP Blake Dean hit a two-run homer and the Tigers scored the final seven runs to beat Mississippi 8-2 on Sunday, win a school-record 20th game in a row and claim their first SEC tournament title since 2000.

The Southeastern Conference champion Georgia Bulldogs were selected to serve as one of the 16 host sites for an NCAA Baseball Regional as part of the 62nd annual Division I Baseball Championship, the NCAA announced Sunday.

Lanier National Speedway brought out the big guns...er, wheels to get the Memorial Day festivities under way Sunday night. The 3/8ths-mile oval concluded a two-day event of Monster Truck racing with a fireworks display jusy before midnight as a huge crowd was on hand.

Tony Stewart suffered his second heartbreaking defeat of the season Sunday night when a flat tire late in the Coca-Cola 600 handed Kasey Kahne the victory in NASCAR's longest race of the year.

Jimmie Johnson sounds like a man ready to take a stand on his Sprint Cup season. And why not? What better place is there for Johnson to start getting on a roll than Lowe's Motor Speedway, the namesake track of the sponsor he has helped make famous in his No. 48 Chevrolet? Johnson, the two-time defending Sprint Cup points champion, has won five times on the 1.5-mile track.

The start of the Indianapolis 500 was once described as driving through a blender set to puree. Thirty-three cars racing in rows of three toward a narrow left turn at more than 200 mph is one of the scariest moments in a fearsome sport.

Joe Gibbs Racing's hold on the Nationwide Series finally has been snapped - by one of its drivers. JGR superstar Kyle Busch drove a Toyota fielded by Braun Racing to victory Saturday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway, snapping a six-race winning streak for Gibbs' cars in the Nationwide Series.