AP - Stewart Cink moved to the top of the Travelers Championship leaderboard Friday, making two long eagle putts in a 6-under 64 that left him a stroke ahead of defending champion Hunter Mahan and two others.

AFP - Thai veteran Tamarine Tanasugarn, who had to come through qualifying, defeated Ukrainian eighth seed Alona Bondarenko 6-2, 6-4 on Friday to reach the final of the 175,000-dollar WTA grasscourt event.

AP - Jhonny Peralta hit a two-run double with two out in the 10th inning after the Cleveland bullpen blew a four-run lead for Cliff Lee, and the Indians beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 Friday night in their first regular-season meeting at Chavez Ravine.

AP - A fast-moving thunderstorm didn't dampen the Fenway Park fans' spirit for the NBA champion Boston Celtics on Friday night.

AP - Steven Stamkos can't wait to play alongside the Tampa Bay Lightning's other No. 1 draft pick, Vincent Lecavalier.

AP - The Cubs struck first in a spirited showdown of first-place teams who share the same city. Aramis Ramirez led off the bottom of the ninth with his second homer of the game to send the Cubs to a 4-3 victory Friday over the White Sox at raucous Wrigley Field.

AP - The Toronto Blue Jays dipped back into their past to shake up a last-place team that has looked overmatched at times in the competitive AL East, firing manager John Gibbons on Friday and replacing him with two-time World Series winner Cito Gaston.

AP - Even if he never pitches again, Curt Schilling has left his mark on the Boston Red Sox by helping them win two World Series titles. And that's a distinct possibility now that he faces shoulder surgery.

AP - Doctors who treat the kinds of knee and leg injuries that ended Tiger Woods' victorious season have one word for his U.S. Open victory — remarkable.

AFP - Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska denied 2007 Wimbledon finalist Marion Bartoli a second career final on grass with a 7-5, 6-3 victory at the Eastbourne Championships on Friday.