Tournament

Quarterfinal action began with a pair of upsets Friday afternoon at the Farmers Classic at UCLA's L.A. Tennis Center. Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania defeated France's fourth-seeded Nicolas Mahut, 6-4, 6-4, to reach his first ATP tour semifinal. He is the first qualifier to reach the semifinals at the Farmers Classic since Carsten Ball in 2009. Ball advanced to the championship before losing to Sam Querrey. Rajeev Ram advanced with a 7-6, 6-3 victory over third-seeded Leonardo Mayer of Argentina.

Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He was 82. Venturi, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, died at Eisenhower Medical Center after battling a spinal infection, pneumonia and an intestinal infection, his son Matt said. The U.S. Open victory was one of Venturi's 14 tournament wins as a pro. Though he suffered from a severe stutter as a youth, he worked as the lead analyst for CBS Sports from 1968 to 2002.

UCLA and Steve Alford. A basketball program of unmatched pedigree led by a former prodigy who became a national champion and Olympic gold medalist before making a steady climb up the coaching ladder. On paper, a harmonic convergence. How they came together, a choreography of those themes, would make for a dazzling introduction, which UCLA held at center court in historic Pauley Pavilion last month. The aura of John Wooden, his contributions to sports and society - and those 10 national titles - was thick.

San Fernando (29-3) was seeded No. 1 on Saturday for the City Section Division I baseball playoffs that have first-round games May 22. The quarterfinals are May 24, semifinals May 29 at USC and the championship game June 1 at 1 p.m. at Dodger Stadium. West Valley League champion Reseda Cleveland (21-10) is No. 2, West Valley runner-up Chatsworth (21-10) is No. 3 and Marine League champion Wilmington Banning (15-16) is No. 4. Some West Valley League coaches are not happy. Their league was considered the best in the division.

Jan. 31, 2010 Position No. 6092: Black to play and win. From the game Jozsef Pinter-Fabian Platzgummer, Austria 2010. Solution to Position No. 6091: Black wins a piece by 1 . . . Nf4+ 2 Kh6 (not 2 Kh4? Bf2 mate) Nd5+ 3 Kh5 (not 3 Kh7? Nf6 mate) Nf6+ 4 Kh4 Bf2+ 5 Kh3 Rg3+ 6 Kh2 Ng4+ 7 Kh1 Ne3 8 Be6 Rg7. Instead, 6 Kh4 allows mate by 6 . . . Rg7+! 7 Kh3 Nh5! 8 Kh2 Nf4 9 Bc2 Rg4. The Corus tournament ends today in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. You can watch the final round live at coruschess.

Underground Tournament League Streetfighter IV tournament Where: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles When: Saturday, 2-5 p.m. registration; 5-10 p.m. competition Price: $10 cover and $10 registration to play, must be 18 or older. Contact: www.theugtl.com.

What: Mercury Insurance Open Where: La Costa resort, Carlsbad Monday night schedule Not before 7 p.m. Alona Bondarenko, Ukraine, vs. Dinara Safina, Russia; Su-Wei Hsieh, Taipei, and Meghann Shaughnessy vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, and Vera Zvonareva, Russia.

Top-seeded teams No. 1 Duke: The Blue Devils are the defending national champions and are coming off the high of winning the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. No. 2 San Diego State: The Aztecs have never won an NCAA tournament game, so this is heady territory, being seeded second to Duke. This is the first 30-win season in history for the team as well. No. 3 Connecticut: The Huskies won five straight games to become Big East tournament champions Saturday night.

The great programming migration to cable continues. Turner Broadcasting, just one week after signing former NBC late-night host Conan O'Brien, has teamed up with CBS in a 14-year, $10.8-billion deal for television and Internet rights to the immensely popular NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament. The move comes as broadcast television struggles with rising programming costs and greater competition for viewers and advertisers. Although the NCAA tournament is a strong performer for CBS, the costs of covering the games were starting to outweigh the benefits for the network.

The Galaxy and Real Madrid will be among eight teams participating in a new international soccer tournament this summer that mostly will take place in six U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, it was announced Wednesday. Confirming earlier media reports, Relevent Sports, a division of RSE Ventures, said the Guinness International Champions Cup also would include Juventus and Inter Milan of Italy. The other four teams will be announced May 7. Most of the games will be televised on Fox Soccer and seen in 151 countries, officials said.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — In the aftermath of Friday's controversial slow-play penalty at the Masters, there were many dueling opinions. We'll go with "Bravo, John Paramor. " He is the rules official from England, affectionately (or otherwise) known as Big John. He has been at this since 1976 and is known and properly feared worldwide by pro golfers. Over the years, the Masters has had several shots heard 'round the world. When Paramor walked up to 14-year-old amateur Tianlang Guan of China on the 17th tee Friday and informed him he was being assessed a one-shot penalty for slow play, it was another one. The news skittered through the magnolias and azaleas like a candy wrapper in the wind.

Breanna Stewart put on quite a show to help Connecticut finally vanquish Notre Dame. The stellar freshman scored a career-high 29 points to go with four blocks, leading the Huskies to the women's national championship game with an 83-65 win over Notre Dame on Sunday night at New Orleans. The Huskies will face Louisville in the championship game Tuesday night in an all-Big East final after the Cardinals rallied to beat California, 64-57, in the other NCAA semifinal. Connecticut will be going for its eighth national championship to match Tennessee for the most in women's basketball.

LOUISVILLE Starters P; Player; Ht.; WTt; Stats F; Wayne Blackshear; 6-5 230; 7.6 ppg F; Chane Behanan;6-6; 250; 9.6 ppg C: Gorgui Dieng;6-11; 245; 9.4 rpg G: Russ Smith;6-1; 165;18.9 ppg G: Peyton Siva;6-0 185;9.8 ppg Reserves F; Luke Hancock;6-6; 200; 7.7 ppg F: Tim Henderson;6-2;195; 0.8 ppg MICHIGAN Starters P; Player; Ht.; Wt.; States F; Glenn Robinson III;6-6;210; 10.9...

ATLANTA -- When Kevin Ware's leg snapped unnaturally and horrifically in front of Louisville's bench less than a week ago, players collapsed on the court, turned away in horror and some cried. Except Luke Hancock. The junior forward knelt by Ware's side, praying over him, saying later that he didn't want Ware to feel alone. As calm as he was in the face of horror in the Elite Eight, he was just as poised Saturday night in the Georgia Dome as Louisville faced a Final Four collapse.

Lizette Salas heard the cheers in the gallery and the shouts of "Fight On," coming from fans who knew her from her USC days. The 23-year-old from Azusa, who learned golf from her father Ramon, a mechanic at the Azusa Greens Country Club, is in second place, one shot behind leader Inbee Park after two rounds of the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. Salas shot a four-under-par 68 Friday that gave her a two-day total of six-under 138. Park, born in South Korea and now a resident of Murrieta, had a round of 67 that included six birdies and one bogey to put her at 137. Michelle Wie, who shot a 70 Friday, Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr and Jessica Korda were part of a nine-way tie for 12th at two under and are the next-highest American golfers behind Salas.

WICHITA STATE Starters P; Player; Ht; Wt; Statistics G; Ron Baker; 6-3; 218; 8.6 ppg F; Cleanthony Early; 6-8; 215; 13.7 ppg F; Carl Hall; 6-8; 238; 6.9 rpg G; Tekele Cotton; 6-4; 202; 6.4 ppg G; Malcolm Armstead; 6-0; 205; 10.9 ppg Reserves C; Ehimen Orukpe; 7-0; 250; 2.7 ppg F; Fred VanVleet; 5-11; 190; 4.3 ppg LOUISVILLE Starters P; Player; Ht.; Wt.; Statistics ...

SYRACUSE Starters P; Ht.; Wt.; Statistics F; C.J. Fair; 6-6; 215; 14.3 ppg F; James Southerland; 6-8; 215; 13.5 ppg C; Rakeem Christmas; 6-9; 242; 4.6 rpg G; Brandon Triche; 6-4; 210; 13.7 ppg G; Michael Carter-Williams; 6-6; 185; 12.1 ppg Reserves DeJuan Coleman; 6-9; 288; 8.9 ppg Baye Moussa Keita; 6-10; 215; 3.7 ppg MICHIGAN Starters P; Ht.; Wt.; Statistics F;...