AP - Lisa Leslie will have help from Los Angeles Sparks teammate Candace Parker when the U.S. women's basketball team tries to win a fourth straight Olympic gold medal. -- read full article
AP - Top-line forward Tomas Holmstrom took an on-ice spin Saturday morning with his Detroit Red Wings teammates to test out his injured right leg hours before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals.
AP - The Detroit Red Wings can win the Stanley Cup on Saturday night, even if they may not realize it. Not in actuality, of course. At last check, the NHL still requires a team to win four games to lift the Stanley Cup, not three.
AP - Maria Sharapova saved her most piercing shriek to punctuate her final shot of the first set, a thunderous crosscourt backhand winner to close out a tiebreaker.
AFP - Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic stayed on course for a French Open semi-final showdown on Friday as Serena and Venus Williams both crashed out of Roland Garros at the third round stage.
AP - Rookie Jay Bruce had four hits — three of them off 300-game winner Tom Glavine — and scored on Chipper Jones' error in the 11th inning Friday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves.
Reuters - The Boston Celtics
clinched their first NBA championship appearance since 1987
with a 89-81 win over the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern
Conference Finals on Friday.
AP - The New York Jets have hired Scott Cohen for their newly created position of assistant general manager, according to a person with the team. -- read full article
AP - Daisuke Matsuzaka was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday by the Boston Red Sox, who opted to take a cautious approach after an MRI exam revealed a mild strain of his right rotator cuff.
AP - Jim Edmonds and Mark DeRosa delivered key hits and the Chicago Cubs overcame an eight-run deficit, rallying past the Colorado Rockies 10-9 Friday for their fifth straight victory.
AP - Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun had some moments of fear, but never thought about retiring after being diagnosed for a second time with skin cancer.
AP - Oracene Price, mother and coach to Venus and Serena Williams, stood near the steps to the locker room at the end of a long, rough day at the French Open.
