Former USC star Anthony Davis announced the creation Friday of a grassroots fan alliance to push Congress to help create a college football playoff system. Davis, an all-America player for USC in the 1970s and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, said a Web site, www.bcsreform.org, was set up because it will take an act of Congress before fans see college football playoffs. The site establishes a grassroots fan alliance to give college football fans and former players a unified voice to help pass pro-playoff laws in Congress, Davis said. The national champion is now decided in the controversial Bowl Championship Series.

By Steven Brown, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Apr. 19--Nineteen years after being clobbered by Hurricane Hugo, Charleston's Memminger Auditorium will soon have a new beginning. The 1930s theater has finally been gutted and remodeled.

Biological and medical research is on the threshold of a new era based on better understanding of how large organic molecules bind together and recognise each other.

By ALEXANDER MacINNES, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD PATERSON Nicole Alston lost her daughter Skye at birth last year and wants to raise awareness of infant mortality and premature births.

No. 1 Southern California got another major scare Saturday night. But the electrifying Reggie Bush wouldn't let the Trojans lose.