TUSCALOOSA A former Alabama football signee says he's giving up pro baseball and hopes to join the Crimson Tide. Wide receiver Melvin Ray, a 2008 Tide signee, is no longer with the Los Angeles Dodgers' organization after a three-year stint as a minor league outfielder.

Two Dixie Baseball All-Stars Alabama state championships will be decided in Scottsboro over the next few days. The city is hosting the Dixie Boys and Dixie Junior Boys State Tournaments starting today and running through Tuesday at Bynum Park.

HARPERSVILLE Just a few weeks after leading the Coosa Valley Academy Rebels to the Alabama Independent Schools Associations Class A Championship, Bobby Hughes took his coaching skills on the road to teach others the game of baseball.

Going into today every in-state prospect that Jim Tressel had offered a scholarship that had picked a college had committed to Ohio State. However, the streak has been stopped as linebacker Trey DePriest announced moments ago that he has committed to Alabama over Ohio State.

If its possible for a 10-year-old to be deemed a seasoned veteran in baseball, then Giovany Lorenzo fits that label.

STARKVILLE, Miss. - Chalk up another honor for Mississippi State University baseball signee Daryl Norris.

Lexington has a rare opportunity to show the rest of the Southeast the caliber of baseball played in the county.

South Carolinas search for a new pitching coach for its national championship baseball program has landed on an old name. Sources said Saturday that Old Dominion head coach Jerry Meyers will return to take the job he held at USC from 1997 to 2004.

Former University of Alabama football signee Melvin Ray Jr., has given up on a pro baseball career and is hopeful of being a member of the Crimson Tides football team for the 2011 season, according to his father.

Former Alabama golfer and Montgomery native Matthew Swan fired a six-under par 66 in the Friday's second round of the Michelob Ultra Classic at The Auburn University Club and now stands at nine-under par 135 through two rounds. Swan, a four-time All-SEC golfer, opened with a 69 on Thursday. Swan will begin the third round with a one stroke lead over former teammate Michael Thompson, former ...

LAKELAND - Dundee Ridge and Lakeland Highlands both won Thursday in the Babe Ruth Southeast Regional All Star baseball tournament at Highland City Park.

Stacy Danley was certainly aware of Alabama State's revolving door in the athletic department.

After a few weeks off, the GadsdenMetro.com Gadsden Update on CBS42.com returns! BASEBALL STARS The Attalla 11U Team competed in the Cal Ripken South East Regional Tournament in McKenzie, TN this past week. The team advanced all the way to the championship round, only to face the team that had placed them in the lower bracket in the first round. The Alabama All Stars from Attalla lost to ...

A Georgia-based advocacy group is requesting that DNA testing be done in connection with two Madison County murder cases where the defendant was convicted and received a life sentence. The Friday requests in the cases of Lamond Toney and Moses Wheat were made by the Alabama Initiative of the Georgia Innocence Project, which argues that DNA testing may shed new light on evidence in both cases ...

WHEELER Jeff Forehand says the Wilson brothers are the exception. I just feel that they both are a story that a walk-on dreams about, the Lipscomb University baseball coach said about his two players from Wheeler, Tyler and Lee Wilson. Theyre the exception to the rule.

VALLEY GRANDE Beginning today, Saturday, shoppers in Valley Grande will begin paying one penny more per dollar spent. The city council approved-tax increase officially began at midnight.

CLEMSON Clemson hitting coach Tom Riginos has accepted the head coaching job at Winthrop.

Congratulations to the 8 and under Murray Bandits from Chatsworth. The team won the Dizzy Dean World Series in Southaven, MS. The tournament consisted of 64 teams from all parts of the United States.

A state appeals court Friday reversed the capital murder conviction and death sentence of Mark Dwyatt Brown in the 2005 killing of four people at a Cleburne County residence.

CLEMSON -- Clemson hitting coach Tom Riginos accepted the head coaching job at Winthrop, the school announced Friday. It's the second significant loss for Clemson head coach Jack Leggett in as many offseasons, losing pitching coach Kyle Bunn to Alabama prior to last season.