AP - Add up all of Roger Federer's greatness on grass courts, and the numbers are striking: 40 wins in a row at Wimbledon, 65 overall on the surface.
AP - Running a partial schedule the past two years, Mark Martin was able to rekindle his passion for racing and ponder the championship that has eluded him his entire career.
Reuters - American gymnast Morgan Hamm's
participation in next month's Beijing Olympics hangs in the
balance after he failed a drugs test at a selection event in
May, USA gymnastics said on Friday.
AP - Kevin Youkilis' drive squirted out of the webbing of Johnny Damon's glove and bounced up off the top of the left-field wall in the third inning of Friday's game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.
AP - Jaromir Jagr signed with a Russian team a day after his split with the New York Rangers, leaving the NHL after nearly two decades and returning to the club he joined during the 2004-05 lockout.
AP - Gilbert Arenas has agreed to re-sign with the Washington Wizards for $111 million over six years, essentially taking millions less so that his team could have more financial flexibility, two newspapers reported Thursday.
AP - Brett Favre dismissed an ESPN report that he's considering coming out of retirement as "all rumor."
AP - Michael Phelps is almost done at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. The superstar has one bit of unfinished business: the 100 butterfly and a showdown with world recordholder Ian Crocker.
AP - Kevin Youkilis created the drama. Mike Lowell gave Boston the win. Lowell hit a go-ahead, three-run homer two innings after Youkilis' shot squirted out of Johnny Damon's glove, bounced off the top of the left-field wall three times, and sat on the fence for several tantalizing seconds.
Reuters - Czech forward Jaromir Jagr signed a
three-year contract on Friday with Russian SuperLeague club
Omsk Vanguard, the team said on its website (www.hawk.ru).
Reuters - Baseball star Alex Rodriguez of the
New York Yankees and his wife, Cynthia, have broken up,
according to the New York Daily News, amid media speculation
that he has been seeing pop star Madonna.
AP - The blasts returned to Coors Field on Friday night, long before the fireworks.
