WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Don’t tell Serena Williams that sister Venus is the one to beat at Wimbledon.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Police are investigating the fatal shooting of Virginia State University football recruit Lonnie Andrews Jr. as a homicide.

Floyd Landis used the arbitration process as public theater to try to prove a point and regain his reputation.

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) _ Tiger Woods does not know when he can play golf again, but he said Monday his rebuilt left knee has been sore his entire PGA Tour career and he looks forward to playing on two good legs.

Tonight at 7 p.m. in the Heritage High gym, 17 amateur mixed martial arts fights are scheduled as a part of the Elite Fighting Challenge.

FOREST — In an American Legion Baseball game slowed by walks and plagued by errors, Lynchburg Post 16 picked up an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth and survived a three-run rally in the top of the ninth to hold off Big Island Post 217 on Wednesday night, 10-9.

Liberty’s football program has picked up two recent verbal commitments from rising high-school seniors.

WILLIAMSBURG — Jacob Singleton has some work to do if he wants a return trip to the match-play stage of the VSGA Amateur Championship.

Jacob Singleton has some tangible proof that his golf game is in order heading into this week’s VSGA Amateur Championship, which begins today at Kingsmill’s River Course in Williamsburg.

When the pads go on and the hitting begins next month, look for the young guns to draw the most fire.

It’s safe to say this hasn’t been the greatest of weeks for the ABC (Anybody But Carolina) contingent.

FOREST — One of the great things — and one of the frustrating things — about American Legion baseball is that players will occasionally have to pitch in when teammates are on vacation or otherwise unavailable during the summer.

Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., is selling discount ticket packages to its NASCAR Sprint Cup race Sunday, and at next week’s race, New Hampshire Motor Speedway will choose one lucky fan and pay the rest of their 2008 mortgage.

On a Sunday so hot the mosquitoes weren’t biting, the final season games for the t-ball and coach pitch teams and the first round tournament games for the major teams played on.

Tiger Woods is done for the year, but not without one last major that he said might have been his best ever.

BOSTON — On a new parquet floor below aging championship banners, the Boston Celtics won their 17th NBA title and a first one — at last — for Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen — their Big Three for a new generation.

Baseball is a game where teams playing with passion will usually beat opponents who take a half-hearted approach at the plate and in the field.

SAN DIEGO (AP)—With a throbbing knee and a pounding heart, Tiger Woods made one last improbable escape Monday and won the U.S. Open in a 19-hole playoff over Rocco Mediate, his 14th career major and maybe the most amazing of them all

FOREST — Eric Davenport’s golf resume isn’t terribly extensive. He played at Robert E. Lee High School in Staunton and tried to walk on at Virginia Tech, where he missed making the team by a single stroke.

In a somewhat unsettled Men’s Open Draw of the 48th Central Virginia Invitational Tennis Tournament, Radford rising senior and CVITT sixth seed Martin Sayer was anything but unsettled in the championship match against tournament top seed Brett Ross on Sunday at Oakwood Country Club.

FOREST — Chris Boswell parked his cart near the 17th green at Colonial Hills Saturday during the second round of the Central Virginia Invitational Golf Tournament, obviously disgusted with what had transpired in the previous four hours.

Tennis tournaments such as this weekend’s 48th annual Central Virginia Invitational (CVITT) at Oakwood Country Club are basically battles of the fittest.

FOREST — Big Island Post 217 racked up five doubles in Friday night’s season-opening 5-2 victory over Danville Post 325 at Forest Middle School, including three in the first inning when it scored its first run.

CLIFFORD — Eric Davenport’s formula for winning the Robert E. Lee Invitational at Appomattox’s Falling River Country Club several weeks ago was simple: Hit fairways, hit greens, sink putts.

There was only one upset in the Men’s Open Singles Draw in the 48th Central Virginia Tennis Tournament at Oakwood on Friday, though, the first two seeds appeared to be in some trouble at least briefly and three of the four quarterfinal matches had at least a few dramatic moments.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Norfolk police say former Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick is being charged with driving under the influence and eluding police for a traffic stop early Friday morning.

There were two obvious trends present in the first day of action at Central Virginia Tennis Tournament at Oakwood Country Club on Thursday.

SAN DIEGO — The “June Gloom” so typical of summer in San Diego gave way to sunshine on the eve of the U.S. Open, filling the blue sky with fighter jets from Miramar that until Wednesday could only be heard in the fog.

The Genworth Financial Central Virginia Tennis Tournament gets under way at 11 a.m. at Oakwood Country Club with a pair of Men’s Open draw qualifying matches in what appears to be a very deep and talented field.

Strength of pitching could give area American Legion baseball teams Big Island Post 217 and Lynchburg Post 16 an edge on their District IX opponents this summer.