Quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, kicked off LSU's national championship team after repeated off-the-field problems, signed Wednesday with Jacksonville State.

Perrilloux will be able to transfer and start immediately for the Gamecocks. The MVP of last season's Southeastern Conference title game won't have to sit out a year because Jacksonville State plays in the lower Football Championship Subdivision.

TROJANS TO STAY IN COLISEUM: Southern California has signed a new 25-year lease that will keep the Trojans' football team in the Los Angeles Coliseum and include improvements in the stadium. USC has played in the 85-year-old facility since it was built in 1923.

Among other details, the agreement calls for the Coliseum Commission to replace all of the seats, upgrade the video and scoreboard on the peristyle end and add a video-scoreboard on the other end of the stadium.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

LADY VOLS' BAUGH HAS SURGERY: Tennessee forward Vicki Baugh, a 6-foot-4 freshman, has undergone knee surgery.

Tennessee's sports medicine director Jenny Moshak says the Tuesday surgery was to repair a torn ligament in her left knee and was successful.

(The Associated Press)

SOFTBALL

HEELS HOST REGIONAL: North Carolina will host Georgia, Campbell and BYU at Chapel Hill's Anderson Stadium in Regional play starting today.

The No. 13 Heels (50-10-1) open against BYU (42-18) at 3:30 p.m. UNC will make its sixth NCAA appearance in a row and seventh in the past eight years. Georgia (43-22) faces Campbell (41-23) at 1 p.m.

HONORS

ECU'S KEMP BENCH AWARD SEMIFINALIST: East Carolina senior catcher Corey Kemp has been named as one of the 12 semifinalists for the 2008 Coleman Company-Johnny Bench Award.

Kemp has helped the Pirates to a 36-16 record, while batting a team second-best .361 with 14 home runs and 62 RBIs.

ECU's Jake Smith won the Bench Award in 2006.

DUKE STRENGTH COACH RECOGNIZED: Duke's Sonny Falcone has been named Master Strength and Conditioning Coach -- the highest honor in the profession -- by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association. Falcone was honored at the association's annual conference on May 8.

CIAA ALL-ACADEMIC: Four athletes from St. Augustine's were named to the league's All-Academic Team.

Track and field's Lakischa Fontenot and Ken Samoei were both named to the first team.

Track and field's Jasmine Bethel and Rebecca Hubbard, who competed in both basketball and track and field, were named second team.

(From College News Releases)