Knoxville News Sentinel: Sports

Texas took over the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press college football poll Sunday with a victory over previous No. 1 Oklahoma. Texas was No. 5 a week ago.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - B.J. Upton and the Tampa Bay Rays won a game of home run derby with a shallow fly ball.

FERRUM, Va. — First, Maryville College lost its starting quarterback. Then it lost its perfect conference record. Marcus Mayo threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to lead Ferrum College to a 24-10 victory over the Fighting Scots on Saturday.

In his mind, Rich Rundles had imagined the moment a million times.

AUBURN, Ala. - Michael Smith rushed for 176 yards and scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 63-yard run in the fourth quarter and Arkansas mounted two late defensive stands for a 25-22 win over No. 20 Auburn on Saturday.

DALLAS - Texas came into its annual showdown against Oklahoma with a quarterback it could trust and a defense playing great under an aggressive new coordinator. Yet even after five solid wins, coach Mack Brown still wondered how good they were.

SALISBURY, N.C. - Contained most of the night, Carson-Newman College quarterback Alex Good owned the final seven minutes and led the Eagles to a 21-14 victory over Catawba at Shuford Stadium on Saturday.

Like the Miami Dolphins switching to their new Wildcat offense, fantasy players everywhere are looking for that spark that can propel their team to the fantasy playoffs.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rocco Baldelli prepared for a quick escape, advising a couple of writers that he had "about one minute" for interviews because he was being summoned to a restricted area of the clubhouse.

STARKVILLE, Miss. - A late rally fueled by turnovers and defense - sounds like yet another win for No. 13 Vanderbilt. Not so fast.

ST. LOUIS - Al Saunders wants the Washington Redskins to win the rest of their games. Except for the next one, of course.

GREENEVILLE - Quarterback Corey Russell threw for four touchdowns and ran for two more, leading a virtually flawless Tusculum College offensive attack to a 55-42 South Atlantic Conference win over Brevard College Saturday at Pioneer Field.

SOUTHHAVEN, Miss. - Matt Pierce stopped by the offices of the Knoxville Ice Bears at Civic Coliseum to pick up his President's Cup championship ring on his way to Mississippi RiverKings' training camp.

Knoxville Ice Bears 2008-09 training camp roster

ATHENS, Ga. - The evidence was condemning, up one column of the stat sheet and down the other. All the numbers added up to one obvious conclusion: Georgia dominated Tennessee Saturday at Sanford Stadium. If there were any question lingering in the autumn dusk by the final horn, it was this: Why wasn't it any worse?

ATHENS, Ga. - Matthew Stafford passed for a career-best 310 yards, Knowshon Moreno ran for 101 yards and No. 10 Georgia beat Tennessee 26-14 on Saturday, leaving the Vols 0-3 in the SEC for the first time in 20 years. Tennessee netted only 1 yard on the ground, but the Vols capitalized on two interceptions thrown by Stafford for their its only touchdowns. Nick Stephens, in his second career start, threw two touchdown passes.

Race results for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure races in Knoxville on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008.

Standing alongside the finish line, Shelly Schneider wore a smile on her face as she eagerly awaited her sister-in-law Dee Kilpatrick's arrival

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) _ Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching.

MEMPHIS - Four years was too long to wait.A Memphis-Louisville football series that had been dormant since Louisville left Conference USA for the Big East in 2005 was rekindled Friday night before 40,248 and a national audience on ESPN.