AFP - Chelsea arrive in China on Monday to kick-off their pre-season Asian tour with Luiz Felipe Scolari keen to assess his squad and the players fighting to impress him.

AP - Jose Molina was hit by Lenny DiNardo's pitch with the bases loaded in the 12th inning, and the New York Yankees outlasted the Oakland Athletics for a 4-3 victory Saturday.

AP - Top-seeded Serena Williams injured her left knee and pulled out of the Bank of the West Classic on Saturday, becoming the third singles player on the U.S. Olympic women's tennis team with a knee injury.

AP - After finishing Friday and Saturday in second place at the State Farm Classic, Michelle Wie was one good round away from finally living up to her deep potential.

AP - Brett Favre stuck to the script, declining to address his public rift with the Green Bay Packers in an appearance at Lambeau Field on Saturday.

AP - Gusts that approached 50 mph required Greg Norman to manufacture shots from his 53-year-old memory Saturday in the British Open, which he called among the toughest tests he has ever faced in golf. It only got harder after he finished another chapter in this incredible script at Royal Birkdale.

AP - Christina Kim's second-round 68 at the LPGA State Farm Classic looked ordinary compared to her opening 63, but it included a birdie putt on her last hole that gave her a one-stroke lead over the charging Michelle Wie and three others.

AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson warned Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy he faces 'embarrassment' for reporting Manchester United to the Premier League on the basis of quotes in an English newspaper suggesting that the Old Trafford manager was directly courting Spurs striker Dimitar Berbatov.

AP - The Tampa Bay Rays returned home and moved back on top of the AL East. Baseball's most surprising team this season entered the All-Star break on a seven-game losing streak, having dropped out of first place in the division, one-half game behind the Boston Red Sox.

AP - Oscar Freire closed in on the sprint title at the Tour de France by winning Saturday's 14th stage, while Australia's Cadel Evans kept the yellow jersey in the doping-battered race.

AP - Tiger Woods and Kenny Perry couldn't have picked a better place to be on Saturday. Anywhere but Royal Birkdale. A fearsome wind sweeping off the Irish Sea turned the third round of the British Open into a test of survival, the only goal to limit the damage.

AP - Christina Kim's second-round 68 at the LPGA State Farm Classic looked ordinary compared to her opening 63, but it included a birdie putt on her last hole that gave her a one-stroke lead over the charging Michelle Wie and three others.

AFP - Serena Williams, still trying to put the sting of her Wimbledon final defeat behind her, reached the semi-finals of the 600,000-dollar WTA hardcourt tournament here Friday.