Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Marvin Williams dropped 27 points and added 11 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks increased their playoff chances with a 114-109 victo ...
Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Marvin Williams dropped 27 points and added 11 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks increased their playoff chances with a 114-109 victo ...
Tennis
Miami, FL (Sports Network) - Former world No. 1 American Lindsay Davenport was an easy second-round winner Saturday at the $3.77 million Sony Ericsson Open. The 32nd-seeded three-time major titlist Davenport, playing in Miami for the first time in f ...
Lleyton Hewitt, playing singles for the first time since losing in the Davis Cup last September, beat Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic at the Adelaide International on Tuesday after Tipsarevic retired late with a thigh injury. The former top-ranked Australi ...
TORONTO (CP) _ Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Ai Sugiyama of Japan found almost instant success as a doubles duo when they decided to team up this past March. Now they have their first title together. Srebotnik and Sugiyama captured the doubles ...
The pepper spray had barely cleared from the air before firestorm No. 2 hit when local media pounced on footage from last year of former Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, who was waving a flare and hanging out with supporters from ...
MELBOURNE -- Eighth-seeded Venus Williams survived her toughest test at the Australian Open to beat Indian Sania Mirza, 7-6, 6-4, today to reach the fourth round. Mirza produced a superb performance but American Williams eventually wore her down to r ...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- First glances, as it turned out, were utterly deceiving at the Australian Open. Seventh-seeded Serena Williams showed up on Day 1 looking fit and eager, and at great ease, joking about dispensing relationship advice. As for Je ...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The first sign or two of weakness in Roger Federer -- practically invisible to the naked eye -- is detectable by that vaunted Serbian eyesight. Or at least with the help of Janko Tipsarevic's hip glasses. The original seed of ...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- After Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France used sheer power and audacious shot-making he called ridiculous to brush aside second-seeded Rafael Nadal in the semifinals here, some experts -- among them TV commentator and former champion ...
LONDON (AP) _ Tennis officials are investigating suspiciousbetting patterns on a match in which top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko ofRussia retired with an injury against a low-ranked opponent at anATP tournament in Poland. In an unprecedented move, Briti ...
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) _ Rafael Nadal dropped serve three timesand had to sweep five straight games to win the Mercedes Cup with a6-4, 7-5 win over Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland on Sunday. The top-seeded Spaniard hadn't previously dropped serve ...
Golf
Romero breaks through for first win in New OrleansNew Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Andres Romero closed with rounds of 65 and 68 on Sunday to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans by a single stroke. Romero, ...
Basketball
English basketball dispute dents qualification chances for 2012 OlympicsGENEVA (AP) _ Britain's hopes of qualifying for the basketball tournament at the 2012 London Olympics are in jeopardy because of a dispute between national auth ...
Football
Premier League round-upArsenal's second trip to the North East in the space of five days ended in disappointment again as they lost their unbeaten domestic record to Middlesbrough, wh ...
Tennis
Davenport rolls in Miami opener, Jankovic survives grueling matchMiami, FL (Sports Network) - Former world No. 1 American Lindsay Davenport was an easy second-round winner Saturday at the $3.77 million Sony Ericsson Open. The ...
Cricket
Ricky Ponting says Australia will improve with more challenging contestsST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) _ Australian skipper Ricky Ponting feels the defending World Cup champion team will improve further by playing challenging games like Su ...