Francesca Schiavone News

In a battle between two players who have been questioned in the past for their "heart," No.

Novak Djokovic showed resilience in claiming the Basel title over Roger Federer on Sunday.

11 Penn State is playing No. 15 Ohio State. Today's game is being played in State College, Pa.

Mets reliever J.J. Putz and Twins pitcher Carl Pavano filed for free agency Saturday.

Italy beat the USA 4-0 in the Fed Cup final this weekend on the red clay of Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Italy won its second Fed Cup title in four years on Sunday, completing a shutout of a U.S. team playing without Venus and Serena Williams.

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy - World number 11 Flavia Pennetta cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 victory against American Alexa Glatch to give hosts Italy a 1-0 lead in the Fed Cup final on red clay here on Saturday.

Melanie Oudin has the bright lights on her again. Oudin surged from nowhere to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September.

Jennifer welcomes in Bonnie D. Ford to give some insight on Andre Agassi's recent confessions and Serena Williams ending the year number one.

Even without Shani Davis to push him, Chad Hedrick claimed another event at the U.S. speed skating trials Sunday in Milwaukee.

American hopes of ending their longest Fed Cup title drought and capturing a record-extending 18th Fed Cup championship have spiked considerably with the presence of Serena Williams.

Tipsarevic to Kremlin Cup final Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, returns the ball to Ilya Marchenko of Ukraine during a semi-final match at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct.

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, Serena Williams topped the women's rankings.

The Houston Dynamo scored two goals in a three-minute span midway through the first half Sunday, then held off host Chivas USA 3-2 to finish second in the MLS Western Conference.

Mikhail Youzhny of Russia beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia and Francesca Schiavone of Italy defeated Olga Govortsova of Belarus to win Kremlin Cup titles on Sunday.

MOSCOW // Italy's Francesca Schiavone eased to her second career title with a 6-3, 6-0 thrashing of the Belarussian Olga Govortsova in the Kremlin Cup final yesterday.

The Vancouver, B.C., stadium hosting the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Games will get a roof worth about a half-billion dollars after the Olympics.

Defending champion and second seed Jelena Jankovic crashed out of the Kremlin Cup on Friday, the Serb defeated 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals by local hope Alisa Kleybanova.

Kayla Williams, who was still competing at the level below elite five months ago, looked like an old pro Saturday in winning the vault title at the world gymnastics championships in London.

Chad Campbell made a double bogey on the par-five 16th, then birdied the 18th for a four-under-par 67 and a share of the third-round lead with Scott Piercy on Saturday in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.