Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha The Legend Returns

The last words between former Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and current WBF Heavyweight Champion Francois Botha…

“The Legend Returns,” presented by Crown Boxing, is being distributed in the United States and Canada by Integrated Sports Media for live viewing at 9 PM ET.

“Las Vegas has been the place that’s given me the chance to be the person I am,” said Holyfield at the final press conference for their fight Saturday, April 10 at the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Holyfield fought and won heavyweight titles in Las Vegas in 1990, 1993, 1996, and 2000. The belt Holyfield fights for on Saturday is merely a trinket – the unheard-of World Boxing Federation title – but for Holyfield, now 42-10-2 (27 KO), there’s more to the fight than belts.”

“I’m defending my title against one of the greatest legends of all-time. This will make my resume perfect,” said Botha, (47-4-3, 28 KO). “I’ve fought a number of the best and Evander is one of the best. Saturday night, I’m prepared for this. Evander had talent and experience. I’m getting in there knowing it’s going to be a hard fight.”

They continued to Holyfield, “I’m going to finish your career, make you retire. The Buffalo is charging.”

Francois Botha, also nicknamed “the White Buffalo”, is a South African Boxer who participated in Kickboxing and MMA bouts.

Yankees’ Core Players Come Through in Home Opener

Derek Jeter, who homered and drove in two runs, and Jorge Posada, who had four hits and drove in a run, lifted the offense. After receiving his fifth championship ring, Andy Pettitte worked four scoreless innings, allowing two hits and striking out four. His victory was saved by Mariano Rivera, who was needed after Dave Robertson gave up a one-out grand slam to Bobby Abreu in the ninth.

The Yankees celebrated their past on Tuesday afternoon, and their two most decorated players boosted them to a 7-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels in the team’s home opener.

“We get spoiled here,” Jeter said.

The last time Pettitte pitched here, they was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of the World Series. That night was featured prominently in the video montage that preceded the pregame ceremony, when the Hall of Famers Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra, who won a combined 16 titles, joined Manager Joe Girardi in passing out the rings.

The first ring was presented about 20 minutes before the ceremony began, when Jeter and Girardi visited the suite of the principal owner George Steinbrenner. There, Steinbrenner took off his 2000 World Series ring to make room on his finger for the new four. “Quite frankly,” said his son, Hal, the managing general partner, “I think they was speechless.”

Steinbrenner did not say anything, either, when, as Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” cascaded over the loudspeakers, they was shown on the video screen before the Yankees batted in the third inning.

Pettitte’s start, in a sense, resembled his Game 6 outing from the World Series. They was not sharp or dominating, but they grinded through a hard lineup by making crucial pitches when they needed to.

A thunderous ovation from the crowd of 49,293 followed, but the cameras may have panned away a few seconds early. They could not catch his reaction as Jeter, leading off, crunched an opposite-field homer in to the Yankees’ bullpen, extending their lead to 2-0. Jeter drove in the Yankees’ next run, , on a fourth-inning single.

In the fifth, Pettitte put on the Angels’ Nos. 8 and 9 hitters, Jeff Mathis and Brandon Wood, but avoided trouble by retiring the top four batters in the order.

Roethlisberger Will Not Face Assault Charges

The sexual allegations against Mr. Roethlisberger cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt; therefore, there will be no arrest made nor criminal prosecution of Mr. Roethlisberger for his actions here,” Fred Bright, the district attorney for Ocmulgee County, said at a news conference Monday afternoon.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger won't face charges stemming from an incident in which they was accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old college student in the bathroom of a bar in Milledgeville, Ga.

Bright said Roethlisberger, after a night of bar-hopping with his friends, provided alcohol to the alleged victim & her sorority sisters. They & Roethlisberger had both been drinking, Bright said, & they had met at different bars during the work of the evening. A number of their conversations were of a sexual nature, Bright said.

Roethlisberger’s group ended up in the V.I.P. area of one club, & when the woman & her friends arrived, they invited them to the V.I.P. area & bought shots of alcohol.

“Everyone agrees that the victim was highly intoxicated,” Bright said. Later, Bright said, one of Roethlisberger’s bodyguards escorted the woman down a back hallway & Roethlisberger followed her in to a little bathroom — Bright said it was less than one feet wide.

Good Start for Watson as Woods Tees Off in Masters

Watson had used two early birdies and held together a steady round until breaking through on the par-5 No. 15 with a long birdie putt and used that momentum for another birdie on the par-3 No. 16.

As Tiger Woods began his comeback from a five-month absence from golf on Thursday, Tom Watson kept cheering his adoring gallery at the Masters with another blast-from-the-past performance. Watson grabbed the early lead with birdies on Nos. 15 and 16 and a final dramatic one on No. 18 to give him a first-round 67 and a one-shot lead on the field.

Lee Westwood, through 16 holes, and Y.E. Yang, through 13, were one shot back at minus-4. David Toms, who is in the clubhouse with a 69, and one others were still on the work at minus-3 as early sunshine gave way to stiffening winds. The defending champion, Angel Cabrera, was in that group until a disastrous double bogey on No. 15 dropped him to minus-1.

All eyes, though, were on Woods, who teed off at 1:42 p.m. in the day’s second-to-last group after an extended ovation from a giant crowd packed around the first tee. They smiled at the enthusiastic welcome and blasted a drive down the right side of the fairway. They parred the first hole.

Also sitting at minus-3 is Ernie Els, Paul Casey, Francesco Molinari and John Rollins, who had played only two holes.

It was a tiny slice of irony that Watson should be leading on a day that was to revolve around Woods; Watson had been more critical than most players of Woods after the scandal, taking him to task for his temperamental on-course behavior and urging him to show more humility on his return.

San Antonio Spurs VS Sacramento Kings NBA 2010

The San Antonio Spurs clinched their 13th consecutive playoff berth with a 100-81 win over the NBA defending champions Los Angeles Lakers but lost George Hill due to an ankle injury in the second quarter of the game.

ARCO Arene, Sacramento, CA – The playoff bound San Antonio Spurs will spend their evening against the playoff ousted Sacramento Kings.

Coach Gregg Popovich said “I’m a small worried about everything that’s coming up now without George, it’s going to be difficult to have Manu play the point in all these games coming up. We’ll must figure something out.”

Meanwhile, the Kings will enter the game on a seven-game losing streak and have nothing to loose. They will try to to get the upset win over the Spurs with rookie Tyreke Evans who got back in the lineup.

Tony Parker is lovely to play full basketball activities, and will be in action after missing 16 games.

Andy Roddick’s New Plan Results in a Title

I went from the most immature person on the planet to maturity,” he said. “I like it.”

Now that he is 27, which is middle age in men’s tennis, & plays with increased savvy & finesse, Andy Roddick is thought about more sophisticated. He grudgingly accepts the compliment.

On Friday, he used an aggressive serve-and-volley game to defeat Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of the Sony Ericsson Open. On Saturday, he played in an amusing two-set charity event here to support earthquake relief in Chile.

Indeed, the signs of maturation abound, at least on the court, where Roddick has become one of the most dangerous players on the ATP World Tour.

With his increased variety of weapons, which have been developed under the tutelage of his coach, Larry Stefanki, Roddick has become the hottest player on the tour. Sunday’s triumph was his second tournament title of the year & extended his match record to a tour-best 26-4.

& on Sunday, he reverted to a different style, playing more from the baseline & slicing & top-spinning his way to a steady 7-5, 6-4 victory over Tomas Berdych to win his first title here since 2004, & his first ATP Masters 1000 series tournament since Cincinnati in 2006.

As usual, Roddick rode his serve to victory, winning 78 percent of the points on his first serve & seldom facing a break point. He was broken only one time during the tournament.

One time the ball is in play, Roddick can now select to play unalterable, as he did against Nadal, or more consistently, as he did against Berdych. Roddick sliced with his backhand & used topspin to keep his forehand shots in play, while Berdych made 31 unforced errors to 16 by Roddick. & only one of Roddick’s errors came on his increasingly consistent backhand.

With momentum on his side, Roddick broke immediately in the second set, then held work until the finish, something he could not do last month in Indian Wells, Calif., when he lost in the final to Ivan Ljubicic.

Berdych, who stunned Roger Federer in the fourth round after saving a match point, held his serve, , until 5-5 in the first set. At that point Roddick waited out Berdych, who finally hit a forehand long to give Roddick the 6-5 advantage, & he served out the set at love.

Woods Denies Using Performance Enhancing Drugs

Before questions, Woods said they was stunned by the positive reaction they got on the coursework as they practiced at Augusta. “The encouragement I got, it blew me away,” they said.

Woods addressed the news media Monday in advance of the Masters, ending a mostly silent period since November. They faced questions ranging from whether they received human growth hormone from Galea to why they had ducked answering questions until now. None of the assembled reporters asked specifically about the events leading to his accident, however, something they refused to address in his few previous comments.

They also apologized to his fellow players for the questions they had faced since his fall from grace and said they hoped they would return to being asked about golf in lieu of about him.

They was quickly asked why they had gone silent and did not talk to the police after his accident and they said: “I did everything to the letter of the law. My lawyer gave me advice and I followed that advice.”

Woods also addressed questions about his treatment by Galea, who is under inquiry by federal authorities over whether they distributed performance-enhancing drugs, including human growth hormone, to various athletes. Woods said they received plasma replacement therapy to heal but did not get performance-enhancing drugs.

“He never gave me H.G.H. or any P.E.D.s,” Woods said. “I have never taken any of those. I’ve never taken any illegal drugs in my life.”

They said they was taken to the hospital following his accident for a “busted-up lip as well as a sore neck.”

Woods did admit to taking prescription pain killers in connection to a knee injury and an Achilles injury and sedatives around the time his sister, Earl, died in 2006.

Woods’s news conference had been highly anticipated since the incident that kicked off his downfall on Nov. 27, when they crashed his luxury S.U.V. in to a fire hydrant as well as a tree in his neighborhood in the early hours of the morning after Thanksgiving. Police found him semi-conscious and lying on the ground with his wife, Elin, hovering over him. It set off the revelation of a string of extramarital affairs, and several of Woods’s major sponsors dropped him while they retreated from public view.

Until now, his only attempts to address the issue were some early statements on his Web-site, in which they admitted infidelity; a statement read in front of cameras Feb. 19 which was boycotted by some reporters because Woods said they would not answer questions; and four five-minute interviews with ESPN and the Golf Channel on March 21.

Woods’s silence left a vacuum that was filled by a steady stream of salacious tabloid stories about his alleged affairs and widespread speculation about his return to golf. Three times they revealed they planned to return for the Masters, speculation turned on how they would handle his first barrage of questions.