In the men's quarterfinals, No. 2 Roger Federer improved to 17-2 against Andy Roddick with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory. Federer got a break when his passing shot on the next-to-last point clipped the net and hopped over Roddick's racket for a winner.
BASEBALL
Jones makes Rangers roster
The Texas Rangers cleared room for Andruw Jones on their opening-day roster by releasing Frank Catalanotto.
St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus is expected to miss at least two months after a setback in his rehabilitation from arthroscopic shoulder surgery.
ETC.
Plaschke places among top five
Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke placed among the top five in two categories of the Associated Press Sports Editors' annual writing contest for newspapers with more than 250,000 circulation.
Plaschke finished third for a story he did after U.S. wrestler Henry Cejudo won a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics and fifth for his columns. Plaschke has been judged among the top 10 in columns nine of the last 10 years and is a four-time winner in the category.
The Times won six writing awards, tying the New York Times for most among newspapers in the largest circulation group. Sam Farmer was fifth for breaking news on Brett Favre's reconsideration of retirement. Kevin Baxter received honorable mention for a feature and a project and Chuck Culpepper received honorable mention for a game story.
Long Beach State's Alan Knipe is the new coach of the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men's volleyball team. Knipe, 40, will take a leave of absence from the school to coach the national team through the 2012 Olympics. He replaces Hugh McCutcheon.
California's Dana Vollmer has won the Honda Award as the nation's top swimmer. Vollmer helped her team win the Pacific 10 Conference and NCAA titles.
PASSINGS
Davis, former football coach
Former Mississippi State football coach Paul Davis, who led the Bulldogs from 1962-66, died Tuesday at a hospice in Auburn, Ala. He was 87.
