Daniel Island, SC—Fifth seed Serena Williams out plays and overpowers New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of the Family Circle Cup tournament.
Augusta, GA—Lee Westwood took a 1 shot lead over Louis Oosthuizen finishing with a 5 under par 67 shooting seven birdies in search of his first major title.
Bellefonet, PA—Former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky appeared in a Pennsylvania court where his attorneys allegedly discussed with prosecutor’s defense efforts to have the high profile child sex abuse charges dismissed.
Lyon, France—The French tennis company Babolat has created a tennis racket that incorporates tiny sensors that records data about a players strokes uploading the data to a monitoring device to be analyzed by the player or coach.
New Orleans, LA—A recently released recording is said to have captured former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams telling players to “put a lick” on San Francisco’s Kyle Williams to see if the receiver still had the lingering effects from an earlier concussion.
New York,NY--After averaging 26.8 points a game, Jeremy Lin is the hottest ticket in the NBA. Lin, a Taiwanese-American who went undrafted in 2010 and was released by two other teams before being picked up by the Knicks has become an overnight sensation in a six game win streak, in one game scoring the winning 3 pointer at the buzzer.
Europe--Retired former world number 1 women's golfer, 41 year old Annika Sorenstam has declined the offer to captain the European Solheim Cup team in next year's biennial match against the United States. Sorenstam has won 10 major championships and had 89 worldwide victories. Last month Meg Mallon was announced as the captain for the United States team.
Rome, Italy--Rome has pulled out of the race to host the 2020 Olympics and has thrust the financially solvent Azervaijan's Baku and Qatar's Doha into the spotlight. Also in the running are Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul.
New York, NY--Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, who led the New York Mets to a World Series in 1986 died on Thursday after battling brain cancer, he was 57. Carter was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
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