In my opinion you can't vote for yes or no on this question. It totally depends on the design of your application.
I totally vote against the use of SPs in an 3-tier environment, where you have an application server in front. In this kind of environment your application server is there to run your business logic. If you additionally use SPs you start distributing your implementation of business logic all over your system and it will become very unclear who is responsible for what. Eventually you will end up with an application server that will basically do nothing but the following:
(Pseudocode)
Function createOrder(Order yourOrder)
Begin
Call SP_createOrder(yourOrder)
End
So in the end you have your middle tier running on this very cool 4 Server cluster each of them equipped with 16 CPUs and it will actually do nothing at all! What a waste!
If you have a fat gui client that directly connects to your DB or maybe even more applications it's a different story. In this situation SPs can serve as some sort of pseudo middle tier that decouples your application from the data model and offers a controllable access.
