AP - Florida's depleted secondary got a boost Tuesday when former Utah starter Ryan Smith joined the team.

AP - The way Bobby Bowden sees it, there are always going to be at least four teams entering each season as legitimate candidates for an Atlantic Coast Conference championship.

AP - Track coach Trevor Graham will pursue "all legal avenues" to reverse a United States Olympic Committee ban barring him from its training centers and training sites, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Marlins manager Joe Girardi may be one of the top candidates for NL Coach of the Year, but he almost found himself without a job after Sunday's loss to the Dodgers. Sources within the organizations have said that tensions between Girardi and team owner, Jeffrey Loria, have been escalating since...

AFP - Young England winger Stewart Downing has dismissed speculation that he will sign for Tottenham, pledging his future to current Premiership club Middlesbrough.

AP - Bengals guard Eric Steinbach was arrested and charged with boating under the influence on the Ohio River, becoming the fifth Cincinnati player in three months accused of breaking the law.

AP - Mark Ellis drove in four runs with a homer and a bases-loaded double, leading the surging Oakland Athletics to a 7-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Monday night.

AP - Yadier Molina homered during a tone-setting, five-run first inning Monday night and drove in four runs overall, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 13-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds and the early advantage in their pivotal matchup.

AP - The outlook for the Big 12 this season has zigged and zagged like a Vince Young broken-field run ever since the Texas quarterback sprinted into the end zone to win the national championship.

AP - Penn State extended the contract of men's basketball coach Ed DeChellis two years, rewarding him for guiding the young team to the school's best record in five years.

AP - The outlook for the Big 12 this season has zigged and zagged like a Vince Young broken-field run ever since the Texas quarterback sprinted into the end zone to win the national championship.

AP - Former Pro Bowl linebacker Mark Fields wants to play in the NFL again after missing two of the last three seasons with Hodgkin's disease, but the Carolina Panthers aren't interested in bringing him back.

Knicks head coach, Isiah Thomas, came a step closer to getting his man on Sunday. Thomas has long coveted the Wizards' defensive-minded forward, Jared Jeffries, and Sunday the Knicks' general manager and coach put his money where his mouth is. According to NBA sources, the Knicks will officially...

The NFL inducted five players and one coach into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame Saturday afternoon. Inductees were Reggie White, Troy Aikman, Warren Moon, Rayfield Wright, Harry Carson and coach and broadcaster John Madden.

Former Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler was hired Saturday by Bryant University to lead the men's program. Pressler stepped down from Duke after a woman claimed to have been raped by three players at a team party.

Defending SEC champion Georgia has suspended another player. Coach Mike Richt will sit junior cornerback Thomas Flowers for the first two weeks of the season.

AP - Former Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler was hired by Bryant University on Saturday to coach its men's team. Pressler resigned from Duke soon after a woman told police she was raped by three men at a March team party.

AP - A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been charged with sexual abuse after he allegedly made videotapes of himself having sex with a 15-year-old girl who said she was working as a prostitute for a Maryland high school football coach.

AP - Even without Terrell Owens, the Dallas Cowboys' offense was able to hold its own in an intrasquad scrimmage Saturday.

AP - Offensive-minded new head coach Sean Payton saw the New Orleans Saints' defense get the best of his team's first scrimmage of training camp.