Associated Press
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. ó Serena Williams screamed at herself, broke her racket and then finally finished off Jelena Jankovic 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 Saturday for her fifth title at the Sony Ericsson Open.
Williams arrived at Key Biscayne a trimmer player, thanks to a recent rigorous training regimen, and needed to be in top condition in the 21/2-hour final. Both players held up well in the 85-degree sunshine, and some of their best rallies ó one lasting 26 shots ó came in the final few games.
COLLEGE
BATON ROUGE, La. ó LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux missed Saturday’s spring game, but he was back as a member of the team today.
Perriloux will accompany the team next week to the White House to accept congratulations from President Bush for the team’s national championship.
Coach Les Miles suspended Perrilloux in mid-February after he missed a team meeting, skipped some classes and was late for a handful of conditioning workouts. Perrilloux had to meet academic requirements, as well as do extra conditioning work.
– GREENVILLE ó A knee injury that required three surgeries forced junior East Carolina quarterback Brett Clay to end his career with the Pirates.
Clay said he would stop playing football after he aggravated the knee injury during practice last week, forcing him to miss the first intrasquad scrimmage.- MORGANTOWN, W.Va. ó Rich Rodriguez may present evidence to try to prove his claim he was fraudulently induced to sign a coaching contract with West Virginia that included a $4 million buyout clause he now refuses to pay.
– GAINESVILLE, Fla. ó Florida receiver Percy Harvin will have heel surgery next week, but coach Urban Meyer expects the speedy playmaker to be fine for fall practice.
“It’s not a career-threatening injury,” Meyer said Friday. “It’s a very minor surgery.”
GOLF
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. ó The only consolation for Lorena Ochoa was a one-shot lead in the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
Just when it looked as though Ochoa would seize control of the first major of the year, she three-putted for bogey on two of the final four holes and settled for a 1-under 71 on Saturday, with only one shot separating her from Hee-Won Han.
– HUMBLE, Texas ó Johnson Wagner shot a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead over Chad Campbell after the third round of the Houston Open.
– PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic ó Mark Wiebe shot a 4-under 68 to take a three-stroke lead in the Champions Tour’s Cap Cana Championship.
NFL
CINCINNATI ó Former Bengal Chris Henry was released from jail Friday, spending an extra night there because no one was available to provide a court-ordered monitoring device. He was released from the Hamilton County jail Friday, although his $51,000 bond was posted.
– JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ó Jacksonville Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio signed a five-year contract extension Thursday, a reward for winning his first playoff game.
IRL
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ó Former IRL champion Tony Kanaan won the pole in IndyCar’s new grueling three-session qualifying format for the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Will Power took the outside spot on the front row and Justin Wilson was third, sharing the second row with Helio Castroneves. Ryan Briscoe was fifth and Ryan Hunter-Reay sixth on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn downtown circuit.