• Tide to honor seniors by 'taking care of business'
TUSCALOOSA ? Alabama's football team doesn't have one reason to get up for today's perceived snoozer against UT-Chattanooga. It has 27.

• Blount Leopards beat Williamson Lions in 2OT
Staff report Tyler Sherrill's 22 points led three Blount players in double figures as the Leopards outlasted Williamson 75-66 in double overtime Friday night.

• McMullan pulls in record king mackerel
BILOXI, Miss. ? It's a good thing Rube McMullan and his sons Barrett and Brant had caught so many fish that they ran out of bait late on the first day of the Southern Kingfish Association National Championship Friday.

• Officials dispute Classic attendance figures
Amelia Bacon, executive director of the Gulf Coast Classic, this week disputed attendance figures released immediately after last Saturday's game between Southern University and Alabama State, claiming there were three times as many fans in the seats as originally reported.

• Plenty on the line today when USM hosts Tulsa
Southern Miss will try to match last season's victory total and stay alive for a berth in the Conference USA championship game when it faces Tulsa today at Roberts Stadium.

• Sports Soundoff
No story for AU -- Alabama fans are living in the past and the present. Auburn doesn't have a past so they can't live in it. They have a 1957 national championship and two blocked punts and that's it. Not much of a story there.

• Tide makes statement
TUSCALOOSA ? The mighty Big East Conference won its first 41 men's basketball games of the 2009-10 season.

• Jags get to work, beat Spring Hill by 29
South Alabama scored 20 straight points late in the first half to turn a close game into a blowout Thursday night, and the Jaguars beat Spring Hill College 82-53 at the Mitchell Center.

• Senior Bowl returns to afternoon
After playing the game under the lights of Ladd-Peebles Stadium for one year, the Under Armour Senior Bowl is returning to an afternoon kickoff.

• BayBears get 'classic' look
The Mobile BayBears will begin their 14th season in April with a new logo and uniforms.

• High water to hamper hunting at Upper Delta WMA
Under Alabama conservation law, high water will likely make all of the Upper Delta Wildlife Management Area off limits to hunters for the gun deer hunt scheduled for opening day on Saturday, the area's manager said.

• Impact players leaving
TUSCALOOSA ? How much pride is there in leaving a college football program in a better position that you found it?

• Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic teaming up with Salvation Army
Staff report The Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic will team up with The Salvation Army to help the needy and hungry throughout Mobile and Baldwin counties during Classic week in December.

• Auburn notebook: Linebacker depth low for Tigers
AUBURN ? Starting linebacker Eltoro Freeman missed a second day of practice this week after suffering a concussion and possible foot injury against Georgia.

• Basketball roundup: Fairhope boys hand UMS-Wright first loss
Staff report FAIRHOPE ? Fairhope built a double-digit lead in the third quarter to open the season with a 46-36 win over previously unbeaten UMS-Wright Thursday night.

• Crimson Tide to face SEC-caliber QB
TUSCALOOSA ? When B.J. Coleman was in high school, his favorite cap was one that read "Top Gun" across the front. He made sure he wore it for photos.

• Grant, Alabama learning on the go
TUSCALOOSA ? In the two days between Anthony Grant's visit to campus and his eventual acceptance of Alabama's head coaching job, the calculating coach weighed all his options before reaching a conclusion.

• Prep notebook: Carter returns to Daphne tonight with No. 1 Auburn
When top-ranked Auburn visits Daphne for tonight's Class 6A quarterfinal showdown, it will be a homecoming of sorts for Tigers coach Tim Carter.

• Shorthanded Auburn faces quick stretch
AUBURN ? Junior college transfer Kenny Gabriel is out, senior starter Tay Waller is questionable, and the Auburn men's basketball team must play three games in three days.

• Sports Soundoff
Martial arts beat boxing -- People are complaining about the mixed martial arts on ESPN. They say boxing is so great. Boxing was great when you had three championships ? light, middle and heavy. Now we have like 23 championships and so many promoters and so much pay. When was the last quality fight you had? Mixed martial arts are true fights. They are true competition. It's not fixed. It's real. Fans like it because it's honest.

• Still in action
Staff report

• Tonight's playoff games
AUBURN (12-0) at DAPHNE (6-6)

• USA women rip Badgers
Brittney Rutledge and Sarda Peterson each had career performances for the South Alabama women's basketball team in a 100-44 rout of Spring Hill College Thursday night at the Mitchell Center.

• Vermilyea ready to play for Volunteers
MONROEVILLE ? The last month has been agonizing for Monroe Academy junior Sam Vermilyea.