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LeBron James didn't practice. He did promise to play. Resting his sprained left ankle for another day, James was kept out of Tuesday's workouts as the Cleveland Cavaliers prepared for Game 2 of their Eastern Conference series against the Washington Wizards. "I'll be ready," James said. During the 15-minute segment of practice open to the media, James stood on the baseline and watched as his teammates... More Info...  

The Boston Celtics are severing ties with guard Sebastian Telfair days after he was arrested in the New York area and charged with carrying a loaded gun in his car. Team managing partner Wyc Grousbeck said Telfair, the 13th pick in the 2004 draft and coming off a disappointing first season with the Celtics, would not be back with the team. More Info...  

Wimbledon will be the richest Grand Slam in history, with both the female and male champion earning $1.4 million. The only Grand Slam tournament on grass will offer total prize money of $22,572,011, an increase of 8.7 percent, organizers said Tuesday. The increase reflects the recent change to pay women the same as men from the first round to the final for the first time since Wimbledon began... More Info...  

Tennessee guard Chris Lofton, the Southeastern Conference player of the year, will stay for his senior season. Lofton said Tuesday he wasn't projected high enough in the upcoming NBA draft to warrant leaving school early. "I think I knew all along I was coming back anyway," he said during a news conference with coach Bruce Pearl. More Info...  

TORONTO (AP)-- The Raptors understand adversity all too well. They started the season 2-8 and survived. They lost forward Chris Bosh to a knee injury and survived. So they see no cause for alarm after losing Game 1 of their playoff series with the New Jersey Nets. "When we take a step back we always take two or three steps forward," Bosh said Monday, leading to Game 2 Tuesday night. More Info...  

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash Monday, a coroner said. He was 73. Halberstam, who lived in New York and Nantucket, Mass., was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said. More Info...  

Tiger Woods finally visited the famous "Church Pew" bunkers at Oakmont, but only to pose for a picture. Birdies were rare, but the greens were still bumpy from being covered in snow only a week ago. And with a 15 mph gust in his face as he stood on the 288-yard eighth hole, he was resigned to breaking his self-imposed rule never to hit driver on a par 3. More Info...  

The Phoenix Suns know they shouldn't be too comfortable going into Tuesday night's Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Suns won the opener of the best-of-seven series, but they've been here before. A year ago, Phoenix won Game 1 against the Lakers, then lost the next three and needed seven games to put away Kobe & Co. More Info...  

Phil Mickelson is changing coaches, saying Monday he will start working with Butch Harmon with hopes of sorting out driver issues that cost him a chance to win the U.S. Open last year at Winged Foot. Mickelson had worked most of his career with Rick Smith, whom he credited for helping him win 30 times on the PGA Tour and three majors. More Info...  

Brandan Wright enjoyed playing for Roy Williams and knew North Carolina could contend for a national championship next season. He just couldn't pass on the chance to take care of his family by entering the NBA draft. "I was definitely torn in my decision," the freshman said Monday during a news conference. More Info...  

Leandro Barbosa, among the fastest players in the NBA, ran away with the league's sixth man award Monday. The "Brazilian Blur" received 101 of a possible 127 first-place votes from a media panel. The honor came one day after Barbosa matched his career playoff high with 26 points in the Phoenix Suns' 95-87 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers Sunday in Game 1 of their opening series. More Info...  

Chicago Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Monday for throwing his mouthpiece into the stands during a playoff victory over the Miami Heat. Hinrich fired his mouthpiece into the stands after picking up his fourth foul early in the third quarter, and got a technical. The guard finished with two points and five fouls in the Bulls' 96-91 win at United Center on Saturday. More Info...  

Latest news and information from the world of sports. Luol Deng expects the adjustments to be as subtle as some of the hard fouls the teams have exchanged in recent seasons. He knows the Miami Heat have to do something. The defending champions had two days to digest what happened in Game 1 Saturday, when Deng scored 33 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 96-91 victory. More Info...  

With the wind blowing out at Wrigley Field, the conditions were perfect for the St. Louis Cardinals to get their offense out of a season-long funk. Albert Pujols hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and Scott Rolen had a career-best five hits to help the defending World Series champions beat the Chicago Cubs 12-9 on Sunday. More Info...  

Latest news and information from the world of sports. The countdown is on. Barry Bonds is closing in on Hank Aaron in a hurry. Bonds hit his 740th home run Sunday, connecting for the second consecutive game and helping Matt Cain earn his first win of the season in the San Francisco Giants' 2-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. "It's awesome for him to be swinging it like he's swinging it," Cain said. More Info...  

Latest news and information from the world of sports. Marty Turco and the Dallas Stars are one win from making -- and perhaps more importantly, erasing -- some franchise history. A win in Game 7 on Monday night in Vancouver would make it the first time in 13 attempts a Stars team came back from a 3-1 playoff deficit. They've given themselves the chance by eliminating the problems of past playoff failures. More Info...  

For a long time Sunday, the Phoenix Suns couldn't make a shot and Kobe Bryant couldn't miss. Then Leandro Barbosa, the "Brazilian Blur", brought the NBA's highest-scoring offense to life, and Bryant went from awesome to awful. The result was a second-half rally that gave the Suns a 95-87 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in their first-round Western Conference playoff opener. More Info...  

Kelly Johnson stood in front of his locker, wrapped in just a towel, his eyes bright with excitement. "That was one of the most exciting ones I've seen between the Braves and the Mets," he said. "It's only April. And if that's something to look forward to for the rest of the year, it could be pretty exciting. More Info...  

The Detroit Tigers were headed for a here-we-go-again loss until Marcus Thames hit a tying homer with two outs in the ninth inning. Then, Placido Polanco gave them a rare win at home in extra innings. Polanco singled home the winning run in the 12th and Detroit rallied to beat the Chicago White Sox 6-5 on Sunday after blowing a three-run lead. More Info...  

Roger Federer seems no closer to figuring out how to beat Rafael Nadal on clay. The top-ranked Swiss star lost his fifth straight match to Nadal on clay Sunday at the Monte Carlo Masters, 6-4, 6-4, and the second-ranked Spaniard extended his winning streak on the surface to 67 matches. "I lost four times against Rafa," Federer said. More Info...