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Serena Williams routed Venus Williams 6-1, 6-2 at the Family Circle Cup on Saturday, the most one-sided match in the sisters' long rivalry.

Los Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton says his wife had to call for security before his first game against the Texas Rangers because fans of his former team were shouting obscenities and personal insults at his family.

John Lackey's return to pitching 17 months after undergoing reconstructive elbow surgery took an awful turn Saturday afternoon, when he re-injured his right arm and immediately left the game in the fifth inning.

Auburn coach Gus Malzahn says he thinks his school's administration responded well to reports alleging misdeeds in the program going back to the 2010 national championship season.

Jeremy Lin thinks he would have been offered a Division I basketball scholarship if he wasn't Asian American.

NBA legend Bernard King will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2013, a source told ESPNNewYork.com.

The most coveted baseball card of all-time proved its worth once again early Saturday morning, as the 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner card sold for $2.1 million in an online auction.

Former Pac-12 coordinator of officials Ed Rush agreed to a question and answer session Friday night in response to the allegations made by a number of officials in the Pac-12 to ESPN and other media outlets.

Adidas has stopped selling T-shirts featuring the jersey number of injured Louisville guard Kevin Ware, citing a "logo issue," a company spokesperson told USA Today.

Chris Davis extended his torrid start with a grand slam and five RBIs, and the Baltimore Orioles used a five-run eighth inning to beat Minnesota 9-5 Friday in their home opener.

The city of Chicago and the Ricketts family that owns the Chicago Cubs are close to agreement on a $500 million overhaul of Wrigley Field, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Friday.

Top-ranked Serena Williams ended a long and successful day for the Williams family as she and sister Venus both won twice Friday to reach the Family Circle Cup semifinals and set up their first sibling showdown since 2009.

Rory McIlroy matched the low round of the day with a 5-under-par 67 and moved within a shot of the lead at the Texas Open on Friday, continuing his last-minute preparations for next week's Masters.

A former Auburn safety will go on trial next week on robbery charges, despite his attorney's request for a delay because of recent articles about the player and university, a judge ruled Friday.

Major League Baseball admitted Friday that the league committed an error when it sued a "chemist" the league thought had a black-market performance-enhancing drug connection. The man is a salesman with no drug connections.

The Denver Nuggets will be without versatile forward Danilo Gallinari for the rest of the season after tests Friday showed he tore his left ACL against Dallas the previous night.

Joey Logano considers his feud with three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart finished.

Free agent defensive back Charles Woodson says NFL teams think he's too old, and that's why he remains unemployed six weeks after the Packers cut him.

Former Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton was greeted with plenty of boos by a sellout crowd at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington in the outfielder's first trip to Texas since signing with the Los Angeles Angels during the offseason.

It seems increasingly unlikely that Derek Jeter will play for the New York Yankees before May.