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The Class A championship baseball series between Providence Christian and Charlton County is on hold because of Tropical Storm Beryl. State titles in classes AAAA and AA will be decided Monday, while the AAA final between Columbus and Ringgold will begin with a double-header.

Here, at a very different kind of boarding school, two young women are acing most of their tests and a good many of their opponents. Both happen to be from the Atlanta area. And both have a similar, clear purpose: While others their age wander between the food court and American Eagle, they are trying to resuscitate American tennis.

While all the multimillion-dollar teams of IndyCar and NASCAR were gearing up last week for big Memorial Day weekend showdowns, 88-year-old Roston “Pappy” Powell was out in his front yard putting his beat-up Bomber-class car back together again.

Don’t expect a new football stadium for the Atlanta Falcons to easily pay for itself. Experts say unrealistic revenue projections and the skyrocketing construction cost of sports stadiums, especially football behemoths, is making it increasingly hard for the facilities to generate enough cash to keep pace with expenses, namely debt service.

Negotiations on a new downtown stadium for the Atlanta Falcons continue behind closed doors. But one thing seems clear: Much of the cost will be passed along to fans, some of whom are already bracing for a hit. An examination by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of the three NFL stadiums built in the past five years shows that ticket prices jumped by an average of 26 percent in the season the stadiums opened, and that many fans paid thousands of dollars more in personal seat licenses merely for the right to buy tickets.

Mike Minor put the skidding Braves in another hole after giving up a three-run run homer and four runs in the first two innings Saturday afternoon against Washington, but that wasn’t even the worst part of their day. The Braves rallied to tie the score on Dan Uggla’s two-run homer in the fifth, but that was before the faltering bullpen faltered again, and the defense turned shoddy, and the patchwork lineup failed to produce any more runs.

Saying it seems fruitless to try to fight a potential new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons, people who live near the likely sites are trying to get a seat at the negotiating table. Residents and civic groups in the downtown communities of  Vine City, English Avenue and Marietta Street want their concerns addressed as part of any agreement between the team and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority.

The Braves sent ace Tim Hudson to the mound Friday night to put a stop to their four-game losing streak against a Nationals team he had owned throughout his career. What seemed like the perfect formula fell apart on a perfectly weird night for Hudson.

Despite vigorously denying he gave one of his horses an illegal performance-enhancing mixture, trainer Doug O'Neill was suspended 45 days — a ban that won't take effect until after his superstar colt, I'll Have Another, tries to win the Triple Crown.

CINCINNATI – Randall Delgado had already given up two grand slams this season including one last weekend, and the Braves weren’t going to risk him giving up a third at the most homer-friendly ballpark in the National League. After the Cincinnati Reds loaded the bases against Delgado with one out in the sixth inning Thursday, the Braves brought in Kris Medlen to face Devin Mesoraco.

Georgia football coach Mark Richt’s long-in-the-works contract extension — still not finalized — won’t include a raise, but will include considerably larger bonuses for winning championships. That was the word from athletic director Greg McGarity to the UGA Athletic Association board of directors at its spring meeting here Thursday.

As lonely as it might feel to be Mike Minor these days, in the midst of such a trying stretch in his young career with the Braves, there is somebody who knows exactly what he feels like. Tom Glavine, a two-time Cy Young award pitcher, 305-game winner and future Hall of Famer, was about where Minor is entering this weekend series against Washington, 32 starts into his career.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.  — Tennessee has suspended sophomore tight end Cameron Clear indefinitely after his arrest on a felony theft charge involving a laptop stolen from a Volunteers baseball player. Jimmy Stanton, Tennessee's associate athletic director for communications, announced the suspension Wednesday and said university officials were continuing to gather information.

After Tommy Hanson’s strong start and Eric O’Flaherty’s nifty escape in the eighth inning, the Reds ended the drama quickly in the ninth inning against Braves reliever Cristhian Martinez. Todd Frazier hit a walk-off homer with one out in the ninth to give Cincinnati a 2-1 win against the Braves, who have lost four out of their past five, including all of the first three games of a four-game series at Great American Ball Park.

The Astrodome, a now-empty showplace that has hosted everyone from Elvis Presley to Hurricane Katrina evacuees, should be turned into a multipurpose facility that could spark fresh interest in the city of Houston, a group of consultants recommended Wednesday.